The most memorable part of the book is the last section, in which Pollan lists a few ridiculously simple, why-didn’t-I-think-of-that rules for eating well. He first strengthens his case by citing lots of science, which makes for mostly interesting, but sometimes dull reading. In it, Pollan presents his arguments for eating whole foods and avoiding foods that have been fortified or otherwise altered (think added omega-3’s and the low-fat craze). The book that introduced me to Michael Pollan’s approach to eating was In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto. To understand what Michael Pollan is doing, simply replace “running shoes” with “the fortified, processed foods that line grocery store shelves,” and “barefoot running” with “eating real food.” Real food, as in “food your great-grandmother would recognize as such,” one of Pollan’s acid-tests for authenticity. Armed with a growing mound of scientific evidence, barefooting and near-barefooting advocates claim that modern attempts to improve on the design of the human foot-one that natural selection has been working on for millions of years-are effective at precisely one thing: selling shoes. Michael Pollan is the “barefoot running” of diet advice.īarefooters argue that running shoes don’t prevent injuries, they cause them.
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