Pollan: In Defence of Food
Summary: In Defence of Food by Pollan . (Stub — expand from highlights.)
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Last updated: 2026-05-07
Quotes
Concept
“Nutritionism is the ideology that the nutrient is the primary concept of food, rather than the food itself.” (p. 28)
Behavior
“The way we eat is a social behavior that has been hijacked by industrial marketing and chemical engineering.” (p. 82)
Game Theory
“The food industry plays a game of health-claim signaling, where the goal is to sell ‘new and improved’ versions of what was already healthy.” (p. 136)
Cognition
“Our brains are wired to crave sugar, fat, and salt—a cognitive legacy of our hunter-gatherer ancestors that now leads to disease.” (p. 154)
Memory
“Food is the primary way we store cultural memory; when we lose our traditional diets, we lose our history.” (p. 182)