In Defense of Food with Michael Pollan
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- "Eat Food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These words to live by from the award-winning author Michael Pollan resonate at the heart of his newest work, "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto." He considers what science does and does not know about diet and health, proposing a new way of thinking about food that is informed by ecology and tradition. Pollan is Knight Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley. Series: Voices [5/2008] [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 14209]
starts at 7:56
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MVP
God bless you
This made so much more sense than his book, I wish he'd been the one recorded reading the audiobook version. I think I would have gotten more out of it and it would have made better sense. He would have better known what and when to emphasize and whatnot.
A must see and a must read. Whether you agree or not, it will change how you eat and how you shop. Michael: thank you for this perspective on food!
Very real😊
A brilliant perspective.
Culture is the perfect way to put it.
IT really is the way to live. Especially when it comes to food
thanks
That depends entirely on the milk which you buy.
For the most part, most europeans have been accustomed to milk since the middle ages. In fact, it's considered common for very poor individuals, often serfs, to live on nothing but simple foods like milk and potatoes for years and it is entirely possible to do.
Could you please point me to the entire ethnic groups you speak of? I'm not aware of any demographic which in their entirety cannot digest milk?
What did Michael Pollan meant by competition in the beginning of this video?
Milk was great for us until the government "made it better".
What do you think of the research and teachings by Dr Pamela Peeke? She is one of the pioneers in alternative medicine research and invested in guiding people to nurture the power of epigenetics from mouth, body, mind (aka spiritual teachings: thoughts, words, actions/somatic senses)
what kind of intro is that what the hell
i have a 13 question worksheet that this video is suppose have the ''answers'' to BUT HE TALKS ABOUT LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE
Confusing diabetes and heart disease with something like lactose intolerance is rather superficial, too. Heart disease and diabetes have always been possibilities for humans for overindulge and have not been weeded out by natural selection because overabundance has been rare. Adult lactose tolerance, on the other hand, is something that needs developement of genes which happens over a long period of time.
owwwwww! I wanted the question time too :(
What I'm getting from this is that the reductionist way of thinking--in which only one nutrient at a time is "good"--is making it impossible to find what you're looking for, where it's supposed to be. when cows ate grass, we could get whatever was created by the synergy of chlorophyll, cow fat, muscle tissue & bone marrow. now where would we find that? why can't the omega 3 be in salmon & we eat salmon to get it? why can't oat bran be in oats and other stuff be in other foods?
he said mostly plants. no only plants. :o)
and in addition to that, the 7,000 B.C.E. figure is for worldwide domestication. There are many large civilizations which domesticated animals far before that.
9,000 years is more than enough time to make any evolution. People are starting to show more signs of genetic predisposition to diseases that are directly dietary in nature, such as diabetes and heart disease, within 2-3 GENERATIONS, let alone 9,000 years.
@MichaelnChristine Seriously? Hmmm, odd, cause I have heard this from several sources, did you hear it from someone who would know what they are talking about? Or someone in the media parroting bad information?
Lastly, although I think milk is a worthy nutritional option in moderation, I think confusing it with other animal products is a little too much of a stetch. We have been eating meat, which is rather different substance from milk, far longer than the hypothetical 9 millenia.
Meat does not have the excess hormones and fat, for example, that cows produce in their milk to facilitate the rapid growth of a calf. We have adapted to meat, not milk, in the evolution of our species.
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7:45
my main criticism of this talk is that in my opinion the anxiety is justified. The honus is not on the eater, it is on the producer to not have carcinogenic and toxic chemicals in our food supply. I think its frankly preposterous so argue that people experiencing that anxiety are only considering the nutrient value in their food and ignoring the pleasure and community elements. A meal is made of ingredients, these ingredients can be chosen for their nutrient value without having any detrimental impact on the other aspects of the eating experience. It is simply a matter of being sensible and careful in the supermarket.
Is veganism anti-liberal?
How is milk terrible for human consumption?
We've been domesticating animals for consumption since around 7,000 B.C.E.
Don't you think we would have seen the negative effects of this over the last 9,000+ years?
evolution
To close, saying milk or any animal product is not meant/fit for human consumption is a woefully inadequate and entirely unrealistic statement. We've been doing it BEFORE recorded history, and all throughout it, and we will continue to consume animals because that is what we need to survive.
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too much introduction
For a mammal it is natural to stop digesting lactose after infancy. Many Asians, Africans, and yes, a sizeabvle minority of Europeans are lactose intolerant because not every diet included milk until very recently. Please look around and don't be so ethno-centric with your history and biology.
Domesticating and animal also doesn't mean you drink its milk - Asian cultures for example used the oxen as a work animal, not a milk producer.
The thing is, the goodness of milk is devided along racial lines. Most of the world's population have been exempt from the 9000-year evolution which enables Europeans and some other ethnic groups to digest milk beyond infancy. Not even all of us Europeans have those genes, myself included.
What the poster means to say I think is that milk we can buy today is highly processed and nothing like what comes out of a cow's tit.
Eat food. Not too much. Only plants.... go vegan! Michael Pollan is great, with the exception of the animal issue...
dont listen to this guy he is not educated on the subject
thanks