Eating Healthy Options

[Hartmann]

I just finished "In Defense of Food" by Michael Pollan. He basically rips apart the idea of "nutrionism" pointing out that things like omega-3 pills are nowhere close to as good for you as just eating fish. How beta-carotene pills that were touted to prevent cancer actually cause it.

His whole point is that if we eat food we should eat mostly plants and not too much. He cites the French, the Italians, the Japanese and how their diets are completely different from each other but they're still healthier than us.

[Spectatrix]

Currently reading "The Atheist's Way". It's decent, though not quite what I expected when I picked it up. It's fairly generic motivational writing, trussed up in godlessness. While I'm not getting a whole heck of a lot out of it, I'm probably going to lend it to a friend of mine who is frequently in the thrall of some new life/faith crisis. I don't expect her to convert to atheism or anything, but she might get some grounding out of it.