- Most of what were consuming today is not food, and how were consuming it is the car, and the front of the TV, and increasingly alone is not really eating.
- Instead of food were consuming "edible foodlike substances" no longer the products of nature but of science.
- Many of them come packaged with health claims that should be our first clue they are anything but healthy.
- Food has been replaced with nutrients, and common sense by confusion.
- The more we worry about nutrition, the less healthy we seem to become.
- The food industry on one side and nutritional science on the other.
- Both stand to gain much from widespread confusion about what to eat.
- Most of human history people have been able to answer without expert help
- The professionalization of eating has failed to make Americans healthier.
- 30 years of official nutritional advice has only made us sicker and fatter while ruining countless number of meals.
- Our personal health cannot be divorced from the health of the food chains of which we are part.
- The daunting dietary landscape Americans confront in the modern supermarket, we can escaped the Western diet.
- Most of the chronic diseases that diet causes.
- We can relearn which foods are healthy, develop simple ways to moderate our appetites, and return eating to its proper context out of the car and back to the table.
- 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.