IN DEFENSE OF FOOD

What should we eat to be healthy? Best-selling author Michael Pollan cuts through confusion, myths, and misconceptions to arrive at a simple, seven-word answer: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." Roaming the globe—and supermarket aisles—Pollan visits groups ranging from hunter-gatherers in Tanzania (who do not suffer from the same diet-related diseases that Westerners do) and Seventh Day Adventist vegetarians in California (who live longer than almost anyone else on earth), concluding that the key to healthy eating is to eat the foods that our species has evolved to eat rather than foods that have been scientifically engineered. The paperback (244 pages, ©2008) provides deeper insight into Pollan’s seven-word mantra. Grades 9 and up. English with English subtitles. Color. 120 minutes. PBS. ©2014.