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    Food Versus Edible Food-like Substances

    After reading Michel Pollan's vastly successful book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma , the Wall Street Journal's reviewer said, "Eating is no longer a simple pleasure."

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    By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    After reading Michel Pollan's vastly successful book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, the Wall Street Journal's reviewer said, "Eating is no longer a simple pleasure." Beyond that, and despite nutritional science, the industrialized products we call "food" aren't food any more, and they've given America "a national eating disorder." Today, Pollan's latest book is being released. It's called In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto.

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      Warren Olney

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