Pollan recommends that Americans spend more money and time on food, and buy locally. In the book, he distinguishes between food and "edible foodlike substances". He says that rather than focusing on eating nutrients, people should focus on eating the sort of food that their ancestors would recognize, implying that much of what Americans eat today is not real food, but "imitations of food". Mostly plants." Pollan argues that nutritionism as an ideology has overcomplicated and harmed American eating habits. In the book, Pollan explores the relationship between nutritionism and the Western diet, postulating that the answer to healthy eating is simply to "Eat food. Pollan has also said that he wrote In Defense of Food as a response to people asking him what they should eat after having read his previous book, The Omnivore's Dilemma. The book grew out of Pollan's 2007 essay Unhappy Meals published in the New York Times Magazine. It was number one on the New York Times Non-Fiction Best Seller List for six weeks. In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (released internationally as In Defence of Food) is a 2008 book by journalist and activist Michael Pollan.
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