One of the non-fiction books that I am currently reading is Micahel Pollan's In Defense of Food. In this book he takes on the question of what we should eat to be healthy. He starts with a short answer: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
Of course things quickly get complex as he examines how we got to where we are today with what real foods and not quite real foods are available today. He looks closely at what exactly is food. What does he mean by food? One qualification is that your great-grandmother would recognize it. He goes into more detail and really gets me thinking about what I eat in different ways. Due in large part to the influence of the food industry and the proponents of "nutritionism" (as opposed to nutrition), what we eat often does not meet his definition of food.
I haven't finished it yet. As I often do with non-narrative non-fiction, I have read the beginning and now am jumping around some, not reading it every day. Definitely another book by Pollan with a lot of food for thought.
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