Reply to Make me smarter/wiser/aware

Forum Index » The DCUM Book Club

Reply to "Make me smarter/wiser/aware"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t know if this elevated my “value,” but Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma was fairly impactful for me. I was already a vegetarian but it kind of cemented my belief in that choice, as well as changed how I view food. It’s also just a fascinating history of food.

[/quote]

If you like Pollan's book, I recommend Ultra Processed People by Chris Van Tulleken.

Before I read the book, I had come to the conclusion to give up UPFs because they made me feel awful, like I swear that I was getting a food hangover every time I ate cheetos. The book goes into great detail explaining just how bad these ultraprocessed foods are, how they are just a bunch of chemicals masquerading as food and indeed, have an addictive component that food companies exploit to further their profits  at the expense of people's health. Literally draws a line between the rise in UPF and obesity worldwide. It was pretty shocking and affirming to me to read it, although the book does get a little long-winded at times.[/quote]

Thank you! This is something I’ve been personally interested in since I first read Pollan’s book ~20 years ago. I see that popular culture has started to catch on about UPF but don’t know much about them, other than the sections in Pollan’s book where he advises to “Eat Food”— but eating real “food” is disturbingly tricky nowadays!  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics