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MARION NESTLE BLOGS ON FOOD, POLITICS & CURRENT EVENTS
WHAT: WHAT TO EAT - A great blog on the science & politics of food.

WHO: Marion Nestle is a multiple award-winning author, educator and policy advisor. She is the author of Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health and Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism .


Ms. Nestle's blog she comments on current events, answers questions, and responds to comments. She also lists her speaking invitations, recent writings, older writings and responses to her work.

http://whattoeatbook.com/

A NEW BOOK BY MICHAEL POLLAN: IN DEFENSE OF FOOD
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."

That's the advice journalist and author Michael Pollan offers in his new book, In Defense of Food.

"That's it," Pollan says. "That is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy"

The implication of Pollan's advice, however, is that what we're eating now isn't food. "Very often, it isn't," he says. "We are eating a lot of edible food-like substances, which is to say highly processed things that might be called yogurt, might be called cereals, whatever, but in fact are very intricate products of food science that are really imitations of foods."

Pollan acknowledges that distinguishing between food and "food products" takes work. His tip: "Don't eat anything that your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food."

For more information on this important book, visit Michael Pollan's website at http://michaelpollan.com/indefense.php