The author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and The Botany of Desire returns with another appetite-quenching study of the food we eat and the food we shouldn't be eating. Pollan argues persuasively that real food itself is under attack. He argues that an ad-hoc alliance of food industry professionals, nutritional scientists, and badly informed journalists have bamboozled us into accepting health claims about edible food-like substances. In Defense of Food counters this bogus nutrition information with back to basics advice on eating sensibly and joyfully. Pollan proposes a new answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Pollan's bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we can start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives, enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy, and bring pleasure back to eating. Sound advice for hungry minds.