For decades we have been taught that fat is bad for us, carbohydrates better, and that the key to a healthy weight is eating less and exercising more. Yet despite this advice, we have seen unprecedented epidemics of obesity and diabetes. Taubes argues that the problem lies in refined carbohydrates, like white flour, easily digested starches, and sugars, and that the key to good health is the kind of calories we take in, not the number. Called a very important book, by Andrew Weil and destined to change the way we think about food, by Michael Pollan, this groundbreaking book by award-winning science writer Gary Taubes shows us that almost everything we believe about the nature of a healthy diet is wrong. Don't miss Gary Taubes's latest book, The Case Against Sugar , available now. "

Da den amerikanske journalisten Michael Pollan prøvde psykedeliske stoffer, oppdaget han at det fantes et liv etter egoet. Hvorfor ble stoffene så tabubelagt at all forskning på dem stanset i flere tiår? Og hvilken rolle kan de spille i fremtidens psykiatri? Da LSD ble oppdaget på 1940-tallet, opplevde leger og forskere at vi stod overfor en psykologisk revolusjon. LSD bar på et løfte om å skape en forståelse av hva bevissthet er, samt å lindre psykisk lidelse. Så kom 60-tallet, hvor en politisk motreaksjon til hippiebevegelsen satte en stopper for videre forskning. Psykedeliske stoffer ble stigmatisert og kriminalisert. Evnen til å knekke noen av menneskelivets største gåter, bevissthet og psykisk lidelse, forsvant. Michael Pollan er en av verdens fremste vitenskapsforfattere. I «Psykedelisk renessanse» tegner han et portrett av en ny generasjon forskere som strever med å knuse mytene rundt psykedeliske stoffer. Han går dypt inn i bevisstheten for å forstå hvordan vi kan redusere angst, stress og avhengighetsproblematikk. Boken er en modig granskning av den pågående medisinske og vitenskapelige revolusjonen rundt psykedeliske stoffer. Pollan forteller også den fascinerende historien om sine egne, livsendrende erfaringer med psykedelika.

Author of This is Your Mind on Plants, How to Change Your Mind and the #1 New York Times Bestseller In Defense of Food and Food Rules What should we have for dinner? Ten years ago, Michael Pollan confronted us with this seemingly simple question and, with The Omnivore’s Dilemma, his brilliant and eye-opening exploration of our food choices, demonstrated that how we answer it today may determine not only our health but our survival as a species. In the years since, Pollan’s revolutionary examination has changed the way Americans think about food. Bringing wide attention to the little-known but vitally important dimensions of food and agriculture in America, Pollan launched a national conversation about what we eat and the profound consequences that even the simplest everyday food choices have on both ourselves and the natural world. Ten years later, The Omnivore’s Dilemma continues to transform the way Americans think about the politics, perils, and pleasures of eating.

Aldri har vi fått flere råd fra eksperter om hva vi bør spise. Hva kan vi stole på? Michael Pollan koker det ned til syv ord: Spis mat. Ikke for mye. Mest grønt. På denne bakgrunnen gir boken 64 korte og lettfattelige råd for sunn spising. Rådene er kokt sammen fra vitenskap, sunn fornuft og bestemødre over hele verden. Resultatet er lettlest, morsomt og opplysende. Følger du forfatterens råd kan du både hygge deg med maten og legge flere smakfulle år til ditt liv. Michael Pollan er journalist og professor i journalistikk ved University of California at Berkeley. Han har skrevet flere bøker om mat og kosthold. Hans innsiktsfulle artikler er lenge blitt publisert i The New York Times Magazine. Forord av Yngve Ekern, matkommentator og journalist i Aftenposten.

What to eat, what not to eat, and how to think about health: a manifesto for our times "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of Michael Pollan's "In Defense of Food," the well-considered answers he provides to the questions posed in the bestselling "The Omnivore's Dilemma." Humans used to know how to eat well, Pollan argues. But the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused, complicated, and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists-all of whom have much to gain from our dietary confusion. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape dense with bad advice and foods that are not "real." These "edible foodlike substances" are often packaged with labels bearing health claims that are typically false or misleading. Indeed, real food is fast disappearing from the marketplace, to be replaced by "nutrients," and plain old eating by an obsession with nutrition that is, paradoxically, ruining our health, not to mention our meals. Michael Pollan's sensible and decidedly counterintuitive advice is: "Don't eat anything that your great-great grandmother would not recognize as food." Writing "In Defense of Food," and affirming the joy of eating, Pollan suggests that if we would pay more for better, well-grown food, but buy less of it, we'll benefit ourselves, our communities, and the environment at large. Taking a clear-eyed look at what science does and does not know about the links between diet and health, he proposes a new way to think about the question of what to eat that is informed by ecology and tradition rather than by the prevailing nutrient-by-nutrient approach. "In Defense of Food" reminds us that, despite the daunting dietary landscape Americans confront in the modern supermarket, the solutions to the current omnivore's dilemma can be found all around us. In looking toward traditional diets the world over, as well as the foods our families-and regions-historically enjoyed, we can recover a more balanced, reasonable, and pleasurable approach to food. Michael Pollan's bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we might start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives and enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy.

What shall we have for dinner? Such a simple question has grown to have a very complicated answer. We can eat almost anything nature has to offer, but deciding what we should eat stirs anxiety. Should we choose the organic apple or the conventional? If organic, local or imported? Wild fish or farmed? Low-carb or low-cal? As the American culture of fast food and unlimited choice invades the world, Pollan follows his next meal from land to table, tracing the origin of everything consumed and the implications for ourselves and our planet. His astonishing findings will shock all who care about what they put on their plate.

<b>An enhanced edition of <i>Food Rules</i>--beautifully illustrated and packed with additional food wisdom</b> <p>Michael Pollan's <i>Food Rules</i> prompted a national discussion helping to change the way Americans approach eating. This new edition illustrated by celebrated artist Maira Kalman--and expanded with a new introduction and nineteen additional food rules--marks an advance in the national dialogue that <i>Food Rules</i> inspired. Many of the new rules, suggested by readers, underscore the central teachings of the original <i>Food Rules</i>, which are that eating doesn't have to be so complicated and that food is as much about pleasure and community as it is about nutrition and health. A beautiful book to cherish and share, <i>Food Rules</i> guides us with humor, joy, and common sense toward a happier, healthier relationship to food.

Una guia sencilla para comer de manera inteligente Comer no tiene por que ser tan complicado. En esta epoca de dietas milagrosas demasiado elaboradas y consejos contradictorios sobre salud y nutricion, "Saber comer" nos ofrece 64 reglas basicas para nuestra alimentacion diaria. Escrito con claridad, precision y una agudeza que lo ha llevado a convertirse en un bestseller, este manual indispensable bebe de una gran variedad de tradiciones y nos muestra como las distintas culturas han alcanzado a traves de los siglos una sabiduria comun sobre la comida. "Saber comer" es un manual perfecto para gente con sentido comun y para todo aquel que alguna vez se haya preguntado "que, cuando, y como deberia comer?."

Michael Pollan's Cooked takes us back to basics and first principles: cooking with fire, with water, with air and with earth. Meeting cooks from all over the world, who share their wisdom and stories, Pollan shows how cooking is at the heart of our culture and that when it gets down to it, it also fundamentally shapes our lives. Filled with fascinating facts and curious, mouthwatering tales from cast of eccentrics, Cooked explores the deepest mysteries of how and why we cook.

Lidenskapelig forsvarsskrift for den naturlige, enkle og sunne maten Det meste av det vi konsumerer i dag er ikke mat i egentlig forstand. Og måten vi konsumerer det på - foran TV-en, i bilen eller på vei til et møte - er ikke egentlig å spise. Dette hevder Michael Pollan i sin forsvarstale for maten. Han beskriver hvordan det vi spiser er ikke lenger et produkt av naturen, men av vitenskapen og industrien. Mye av den kommer i tillegg med et tvilsomt sunnhetsstempel. Når vi fjerner oss fra naturlige råvarer, blir vi stadig mer forvirret over hva vi faktisk bør spise. Dette er Vestens store paradoks: Jo mer vi fokuserer på ernæring, jo mer usunt spiser vi.Boken er et angrep på moderne spisevaner og en hyllest til den maten våre bestemødre laget og serverte. Pollan viser oss hvordan vi med enkle grep kan velge den maten som både gir økt helsegevinst og nytelse. Essensen av Michael Pollans manifest kan oppsummeres i tre enkle regler:.Spis mat - Ikke for mye - Mest grønt.Michael Pollan er professor i journalistikk ved universitetet i Berkeley, forfatter av flere bøker og journalist i The New York Times Magazine.Oversatt av Rune Rogndokken Moen

What should we have for dinner? When you can eat just about anything nature (or the supermarket) has to offer, deciding what you should eat will inevitably stir anxiety, especially when some of the foods might shorten your life. Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from a national eating disorder. As the cornucopia of the modern American supermarket and fast food outlet confronts us with a bewildering and treacherous landscape, what's at stake becomes not only our own and our children's health, but the health of the environment that sustains life on earth. Pollan follows each of the food chains--industrial food, organic or alternative food, and food we forage ourselves--from the source to the final meal, always emphasizing our coevolutionary relationship with the handful of plant and animal species we depend on. The surprising answers Pollan offers have profound political, economic, psychological, and even moral implications for all of us.--From publisher description.Offers insight into food consumption in the twenty-first century, explaining how an abundance of unlimited food varieties reveals the responsibilities of consumers to protect their health and the environment.

The author of The Botany of Desire draws on his gardening experiences to explore attitudes toward nature and wilderness, environmental questions, and what gardening teaches about the borders between nature and culture. Reprint.

The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of Cooked and The Omnivore's Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in America Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers' genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desires--sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control--with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind's most basic yearnings. And just as we've benefited from these plants, we have also done well by them. So who is really domesticating whom?

Diving deep into an extraordinary world - from shamans and magic mushroom hunts to the pioneering labs mapping our brains - and putting himself forward as a guinea-pig, Michael Pollan has written a remarkable history of psychedelics and a compelling portrait of the new generation of scientists fascinated by the implications of these drugs. How to Change Your Mind is a report from what could very well be the future of consciousness.

For more than thousands of years, humans have eaten well and stayed healthy without nutritional scientists or even knowing what an antioxidant is. So which of the modern world’s hundred of rules do we actually need? Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Seven simple words of plain English. In Food Rules, internationally acclaimed journalist Michael Pollan gives us straightforward and invaluable rules from these seven words for day-to-day living, such as avoiding food advertised on TV or that your recent ancestors wouldn’t recognize. These rules are simply designed to help you eat real food in reasonable amounts. Phrased in everyday language and collected from gradmothers, folk wisdom, science and common sense from around the world, this boob is all you need to eat healthily, dine happily and live well.

Selvfølgelig! Her er en oversettelse til norsk: I "This is your mind on plants", dykker Michael Pollan dypt inn i tre plantemedisiner—opium, koffein, og meskalin—og kaster de fundamentale merkelighetene, og vilkårligheten, i vår tenkning om dem inn i skarpt lys. Ved å utforske og delta i kulturene som har vokst frem rundt disse stoffene, samtidig som han inntar (eller, i tilfellet med koffein, prøver å ikke innta) dem, konfronterer Pollan den sterke menneskelige tiltrekningen til psykoaktive planter. Hvorfor går vi til så store lengder for å søke disse endringene i bevissthet, og hvorfor inngjerder vi deretter det universelle ønsket med lover og skikker og problemfylte følelser?

New York Times and USA Today Bestseller"Eat food, not too much, mostly plants." With these seven words, Michael Pollan-brother of Lori, Dana, and Tracy Pollan, and son of Corky-started a national conversation about how to eat for optimal health. A decade later, the value of a plant-based diet is widely accepted--and yet for many people, easier said than done.So what does choosing "mostly plants" look like in real life? In families where not everyone is on the same vegetarian page the word "mostly" is key. The point isn't necessarily to give up meat entirely but to build a diet that shifts the ratio of animal to plants to create delicious--and nutritious--meals sure to appeal to everyone. There has never been a better time to cook with vegetables-and to move plants to the center of the American plate. Even if plants weren't the better choice for your health, they make the case for themselves purely on the basis of deliciousness.This approach to eating-also known as a flexitarian diet--strikes the best balance on our plates between flavor and pleasure, and nutrition and sustainability. In Mostly Plants, readers will find inventive and unexpected ways to focus on cooking with vegetables-dishes such as Crispy Kale and Potato Hash with Fried Eggs; Tandoori Chicken and Vegetable Sheet Pan Supper; Salmon Farro Bowl; and Roasted Tomato Soup with Gruyere Chickpea "Croutons". Here are recipes that keep the spotlight on the vegetables, at a time when the quality of fresh produce has never been better.In Mostly Plants readers will find recipes that satisfy or can be adapted to almost all dietary needs; vegetarian, vegan, gluten free, and dairy free. And the best part: many of these dishes can be on the table in 35 minutes or less! With skillet-to-oven recipes, sheet pan suppers, one-pot meals and more, this is real cooking for real life: meals that are wholesome, delectable--and mostly plants.

While Michael Pollan and others have popularized ideas about how growing one's own food can help lead to environmental sustainability, environmental justice activists have pushed for more access to gardens and fresh food in impoverished communities. Now, Robert S. Emmett argues that mid-twentieth-century American garden writing included many ideas that became formative for these contemporary environmental writers and activists.Drawing on ecocriticism, environmental history, landscape architecture, and recent work in environmental justice and food studies, Emmett explores how the language of environmental justice emerged in descriptions of gardening across a variety of literary forms. He reveals early egalitarian associations found in garden writing, despite a popular focus on elite sites such as suburban lawns and formal southern gardens. Cultivating Environmental Justice emphasizes the intergenerational work of gardeners and garden writers who, from the 1930s on, asserted increasingly radical socioeconomic and ecological claims to justice. Emmett considers a wide range of texts by authors including Bernard M'Mahon, Scott and Helen Nearing, Katharine S. White, Elizabeth Lawrence, Alice Walker, and Novella Carpenter.