Michael Pollan's "Unhappy Meals" is a thought-provoking essay that challenges the conventional wisdom surrounding nutrition and food choices. In this essay, Pollan argues that the Western diet, characterized by the consumption of processed and nutritionally deficient foods, is responsible for the rise in chronic diseases...
Michael Pollan’s Food Rules Highlights the concept of removing the Western Diet and living with a much healthier, nutrient dense diet. The book’s base is one rule: eat food, mostly plants, but not too much. It provides 64 rules to guide you through it. As...
The essays, “Escape from the Western Diet” by Michael Pollan, and “Food as Thought: Resisting the Moralization of Eating” by Mary Maxfield could not be more contrasting essays. Pollan writes on his views and feelings towards nutrition, the “Western Diet”, and its repercussions. In response,...
Michael Pollan sets out to explore the relationship between the Western diet and nutritionism; therefore, he argues that nutritionism, the belief that the nutritional value of a food is the sum of all its components, nutrients, and vitamins that have harmed American’s eating habits. Due...