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Michael Pollan
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Defining the Western Diet & Its Impact - Frontier Neuro frontierneuro.com Feb 1, 2022 6 facts
claimMichael Pollan writes that the shift from a food chain based on green plants to one based on seeds is the most far-reaching change within the Western diet.
quoteMichael Pollan stated: “A diet based on quantity rather than quality has ushered a new creature onto the world stage: the human being who manages to be both overfed and undernourished, two characteristics seldom found in the same body in the long natural history of our species.”
quoteMichael Pollan states: “We have known for a century now that there is a complex of so-called Western Diseases – including obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and a specific set of diet related cancers – that begin almost invariably to appear soon after a people abandons it traditional diet and way of life.”
quoteMichael Pollan stated: "By gaining a firmer grasp on the nature of the Western Diet – trying to understand it not only physiologically but also historically and ecologically – we can begin to develop a different way of thinking about food that might point a path out of our predicament."
referenceIn his book 'In Defense of Food', Michael Pollan tracks the development of the Western Diet to the industrialization of food and the rise of nutritionism, identifying five specific movements: From Whole to Refined Foods, From Complexity to Simplicity, From Quality to Quantity, From Leaves to Seeds, and From Food Culture to Food Science.
quoteMichael Pollan stated: "I contend that most of what we’re consuming today is no longer, strictly speaking, food at all, and how we’re consuming it is not really eating, at least not in the sense that civilization has long understood the term."
The Western Diet and Its Impact on Modern Health: What Patients ... diagnosticdetectives.com 2 facts
quoteMichael Pollan advises: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
perspectiveMichael Pollan holds the position that traditional diets vary widely in nutritional composition yet effectively safeguard against modern diseases.
history Archives - UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics psychedelics.berkeley.edu 2 facts
perspectiveMichael Pollan, author of 'How to Change Your Mind' and co-founder of the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics, advocates for expanding psychedelic research into the humanities.
quoteMichael Pollan stated: "This new initiative of UC Berkeley and Harvard will delve into new areas of essential psychedelic inquiry. How might psychedelics affect our relationship with death or the natural world or our understanding of consciousness? What roles have psychedelics historically played in social change or religion? The possibilities for research and collaboration are endless, exciting, and will have the potential to shed fresh light on these questions and so many others."
Origins and evolution of the Western diet: health implications for the ... academia.edu 1 fact
referenceMichael Pollan wrote the article 'Power steer', which was published in the New York Times Magazine in 2002.