"Food. There's plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend it?

Because most of what we're consuming today is not food, and how we're consuming it -- in the car, in front of the TV, and increasingly alone -- is not really eating. Instead of food, we're consuming "edible foodlike substances" -- no longer the products of nature but of food science. Many of them come packaged with health claims that should be our first clue they are anything but healthy. In the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion. The result is what Michael Pollan calls the American paradox: The more we worry about nutrition, the less healthy we seem to become.

But if real food..." www.michaelpollan.com/indefense.php

Add to your library!

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Coming January 2008:

See Michael in Seattle!

Michael Pollan is the author, most recently, of In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto. His previous book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (2006), was named one of the ten best books of 2006 by the New York Times and the Washington Post. It also won the California Book Award, the Northern California Book Award, the James Beard Award for best food writing, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Tuesday, September 26, 2006 - 2:57pm
By Adam Kessler, CSCS

As a society, we are seriously battling obesity right now, and it doesn’t look like we’re going to win anytime soon. However, new scientific discoveries suggest there could be hope. That’s because recently high-fructose corn syrup has been identified as a potentially significant contributor to obesity. If the theories are accurate, there may be some smart dietary changes you can make that will drastically improve your odds in the battle of the bulge.

http://www.thedietchannel.com/Diet-and-Weight-Loss-How-High-Fructose-Corn-Syrup-Could-Be-Undermining-Your-Diet.htm