In Defense of Food

course when it comes to food, culture is another word for mom, the figure who typically passes on the food ways of the group—food ways that endured, by the way, only because they tended to keep people healthy.

The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it, does not seem to be one of them.

Here are a couple more: What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionism—its supreme test and, as now is coming clear, its most abject failure.

Because a health claim on a food product is a strong indication it’s not really food, and food is what you want to eat.

you’re concerned about your health, you should probably avoid products that make health claims.

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This meant that these cancers could just as easily be caused by animal protein, dietary cholesterol, something else exclusively found in animal-based foods, or a lack of plant-based foods,”

some vegetables and citrus fruits seemed to be protective against cancer

more of the right ones, fewer of the wrong, and you would live longer, avoid chronic diseases, and lose weight.