Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual
- ISBN13: 9780143116387
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Product Description A pocket compendium of wisdom from the author of Food Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food Michael Pollan, our nation’s most reliable source of food-related issues, offer this guide for everyone concerned about health food. Simple, sensitive and easy to use, is feeding a set of rules to remember to eat wisely, many came from different ethnic and cultural traditions. If a supermarket or an all-you-can-eat. . . More>>
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February 8th, 2010 at 1:51 pm
I found this book simply too obvious and easy for someone like me, who are already deeply interested in food and nutrition. Rating: 2 / 5
February 8th, 2010 at 2:19 pm
Line breaks and words is a disaster in the Kindle version. I hope this is not an example of what can be expected from the Kindle formattazione.Voto: 2 / 5
February 8th, 2010 at 3:18 pm
Neat book, but only three stars for the Kindle version because the formatting is terrible. Much more room for words, which leads to very few line breaks strano.Si would think that publishers would pay more attention to this. Rating: 3 / 5
February 8th, 2010 at 6:10 pm
Before you rip into this book, I would say this: many people would be better if they follow these rules. Many people in the world have developed a terrible diet, and are not overweight and otherwise healthy as a result. There is plenty of room to improve and comply with these rules would be far better to stay on course, at least for most people. That said, I can do better than this book in one sentence: “Do not eat more calories than you burn each day, and eat a balanced diet.” This advice is much better than the book, but of course you knew già.Questo book is just stupid. It is full of contradictions. For example, within the first few pages, the author argues that all he knows can be reduced to just seven words: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” Only a few pages earlier, however, the author points out the diet of the Inuit, who say mostly eat blubber and Masai, the author argues that survive primarily beef and dairy, such as dietary habits ruling. Neither the whales, or cows are plants. So if the author is not really the “most systems”? I still have not so.La Rule 4 is “avoid foods containing high fructose corn syrup.” I totally agree with. But the author goes on to say that whether a product contains corn syrup, glucose, or any other type of sugar as “sugar is sugar.” Well, duh. And rule the author apparently “avoid foods high in sugar.” I do not need to buy a book to learn what questo.Che becomes really annoyed me, however, is anti-intellectual and anti-scientific attitude patronizing writers. The author mixes in some intelligent comments with a bunch of complete nonsense. He says that we must trust the wisdom of the people, because, after all, people have survived long good. Really? 1900, the average life expectancy, what, 50 years at best? Before that he was even less. Now that’s what, 70 + years? And for centuries, people thought leeches were a good way to treat your mood, or some other nonsense so. Public health advice is almost always wrong. Science is often right. And even when you’re wrong, it is rarely, if ever, how far the brand as Folk ‘wisdom’. The idea of eating what they ate your ancestors is a big mistake, that the author would have understood if it was aware of the theory of evolution. We have developed, like sugar and fat, because they kept us alive long enough to reproduce. The whole evolution “cure” Who’s your genes to the next generation. Once past the reproductive age, is more or less dead weight and the development does not care about you. Heart disease and cancer tend to kill them over 40. Thus diet that promotes the development could well lead to these diseases. Modern humans, however, is worried about being alive and healthy way in the last 40, and diet in the past is almost certainly going to like it, because the development is an entirely different set of “priority.” And returning to the generation of our grandmothers’ once again, became a grandmother often more interested in getting enough calories in their systems in order to spend the day. She (or poor people today) do not have to worry about getting fat and she could not afford us the luxury of turning calories today because of possible long-term effects. Until recently you could not even get Diet Coke in South America. If you asked, it would look weird – who in their right mind gives calories? But since there was no grasso. Così, both from a cultural and an evolutionary perspective, looking at the diet of the previous applications for disaster because the health problems today is new and different from the past. I could continue to benefit from this book, but I’ve ranted long enough. Rating: 2 / 5
February 8th, 2010 at 7:25 pm
This book, if one can call it that, was a real disappointment. You are much better than just reading “In Defense of Food.” Rating: 1 / 5