Globe Health Tours

If ever there is an area of discourse more confused and confounded by research, spurious claims and fiction, it must be nutrition. Most western people live in the shade of good food, supplements, fast food and the anxiety of ... "is this the right food to eat."

Michael Pollan's article "Unhappy Meals" is bracing and densely argued investigation that is ever so lucid but leaves you with the sense that you are better off ignoring all advice except for maybe the opening phrase: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."