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Rating: 6

While I am generally sympathetic to Mr. Pollan’s message, I find little in this book that hasn’t been said better elsewhere (Marion Nestle, Barbara Kingsolver), nor am I impressed at all with the first two thirds of the book being comprised of alternating straw-man arguments and the very sorts of “reductionist nutritionism” he decries. What is his defense of this? That for all of his carping about the evils of nutritionism, it is still far better than anything he could come up with.

The deckline: “Eat food, not too much, mostly plants” is of use, as is the slightly expanded version of the NYT article this book sprang from, but essentially, there isn’t much here that wasn’t in the original article except lots of additives and adulterants to beef up the product to salable, consumable dimensions.