Book: 20260528 to 20260612, "In defense of food" by Michael Pollan

 

20260529 - Introduction: An Eater's Manifesto

In 2005 we learned that dietary fibre might not, as we'd been confidently told for years, help prevent colorectal cancers and heart disease. p5
Interesting! I don't know this.

Part One: The Age of Nutritionism

20260529 - 1. From Foods to Nutrients

20260529 - 2. Nutritionism, Defined

20260529 - 3. Nutritionism Comes to Market

20260529 - 4. Food Science's Golden Age

20260530 - 5. The Melting of the Lipid Hypothesis

In pace of those fats, they consumed substantially more vegetable oils, especially in the form of margarine, sales of which outpaced butter for the first time in 1957. p46
Maybe it's not that animal fat is better than seed oils, but that people should eat less.

20260530 - 6. Eat Right, Get Fatter

20260530 - 7. Beyond the Pleasure Principle

20260530 - 8. The Proof in the Low-Fat Pudding

20260531 - 9. Bad Science

To really know what a person is eating you'd have to have a second invisible person following them around. p76
We may do this type of experiment in prison, or if they are willing to wear some smart glasses before eating and let AI to analyse the video clips. People will be happy to do that if they get paid for it. That's what extra UBI can do.

20260531 - 10. Nutritionism's Children

20260606 - Part Two: The Western Diet and the Diseases of Civilization

20260606 - 11. The Aborigine in All of Us

20260606 - 12. The Elephant in the Room

20260606 - 13. The Industrialization of Eating: What We Do Know

a. From Whole Foods to Refined

Wherever these refining technologies came into widespread use, devastating epidemics of pellagra and beriberi soon followed. Both are diseases caused by deficiencies in the B vitamins that the germ had contributed to the diet. p108

b. From Complexity to Simplicity

c. From Quality to Quantity

d. From Leaves to Seeds

Good to know that grass-fed Ghee is better than olive oil in high temperature frying, and it also produce less smoke.
Coco Earth Ghee Clarified Butter Grass Fed 500mL seems good with price AU$13
https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/175500

e. From Food Culture to Food Science

20260611 - Part Three: Getting Over Nutritionism

20260611 - 14. Escape from the Western Diet

In order to eat well we need to invest more time, effort, and resources in providing for our sustenance, to dust off a word, than most of us do today. p145

20260612 - 15. Eat Food: Food, Defined

20260612 - 16. Mostly Plants: What to Eat

20260612 - 17. Not Too Much: How to Eat It

Eat less. Especially less processed food.

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