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In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan Condition:Very Good This tension— between wanting and#1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of How to Change Your Mind, The Omnivore's Dilemma, and Food Rules Food. There's plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend it? Because in the so called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion most of what were consuming today is longer the product of nature but of food science. The result is what Michael Pollan calls the