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Updated: Saturday, October 11, 2008 at 1:28am

Pollan’s food manifesto: Just ‘eat’

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Senior Reporter
Published Friday, January 25, 2008
“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” Michael Pollan chose this mantra to begin his new book, “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto.” For good measure, he slapped it on the cover, too. It seems simple enough at first reading — isn’t everything we eat food? But Pollan distinguishes between yogurt and Go-gurt, between foods our grandmothers would recognize and the “foodlike products” now found on grocery store shelves.
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