Michael Pollan - In Defense of Food

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01/04/2008

Jan. 04, 2008

Michael Pollan - In Defense of Food

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Chances are that your holiday meals weren't completely natural. But where is the dividing line between 'real' food and some sort of artificial pseudo-food-substitute? In this segment, Ira talks with author Michael Pollan about his latest book, "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto." He suggests that people can improve their eating tremendously through relatively simple rules, including 'Don't eat anything that your great-grandmother would not recognize as food.' Pollan boils down his philosophy of nutrition to just seven words: 'Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.' We'll find out more about his ideas, and how to apply them to your local grocery store.

Produced by Annette Heist, Senior Producer

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Michael Pollan
Author, "In
Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto" (Penguin Press HC, 2008)

Contributing Writer, The
New York Times Magazine

Knight Professor of Journalism,
University of California

Berkeley, California

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