This book is a celebration of food. By food, Michael Pollan means real, proper, simple food - not the kind that comes in a packet, or has lists of unpronounceable ingredients, or that makes nutritional claims about how healthy it is. More like the kind of food your great-grandmother would recognize.

PREFACE TO THIS EDITION

INTRODUCTION An Eater's Manifesto

 Ⅰ THE AGE OF NUTRITIONISM

   ONE From Foods to Nutrients

   TWO Nutriti0nism Defined

   THREE Nutritionism Comes to Market

   FOUR Food Science's Golden Age

   FIVE The Melting of the Lipid Hypothesis

   SIX Eat Right, Get Fatter

   SEVEN Beyond the Pleasure Principle

   EIGHT The Proof in the Low-Fat Pudding

   NINE Bad Science

   TEN Nutritionism's Children

 Ⅱ THE WESTERN DIET AND THE DISEASES OF CIVILIZATION

   ONE The Aborigine in All of Us

   TWO The Elephant in the Room

     THREE The Industrialization of Eating:

         What We Do Know

             1) From Whole Foods to Refined

             2) From Complexity to Simplicity

             3) From Quality to Quantity

             4) From Leaves to Seeds

             5) From Food Culture to Food Science

 Ⅲ GETTING OVER NUTRITIONISM

   ONE Escape from theWestern Diet

   TWO Eat Food: Food Defined

   THREE Mostly Plants: What to Eat

   FOUR NotToo Much: How to Eat

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

SOURCES

INDEX