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In defense of food an eater's manifesto

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""Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of food journalist Pollan's thesis. Humans used to know how to eat well, he argues, but the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused and distorted by food industry marketers...

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Main Author: Hedge, Christopher (Composer)
Other Authors: Schwarz, Michael (Producer) (Television director, Television producer), Gray, Edward (Producer, Screenwriter), Pollan, Michael (Narrator), Jacobs, David R. (Commentator), German, J. Bruce (Commentator), Mills, David E. (Commentator), Willett, Walter (Commentator), Rozin, Paul, 1936- (Commentator), Fischler, Claude (Commentator)
Format: Videos DVD
Language:English
Published: [Arlington, Virginia] : PBS, [2016]
Edition:Widescreen.
Series:In defense of food.
Subjects:
Nutrition.
Food habits.
Diet in disease.
Food industry and trade.
Documentary television programs.
Television adaptations.
Nonfiction television programs.
Educational television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The Western diet
  • Too much sugar
  • Lessons from nature
  • What can we do?
  • The low fat campaign
  • A food desert blooms
  • Mostly plants
  • Longest living Americans
  • Our microscopic partners
  • Not too much
  • Secrets of the buffet line
  • Soda politics
  • The French paradox
  • Conclusion.

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