Escape From The Western Diet Pollan Summary

Michael Pollan’s “Escape from the Western Diet,” is used to directly talk to Americans about the western diet and how he believes they should escape from it. His main point is that we should escape to avoid the harmful effects associated with it such as “western diseases” (Pollan, 420). Then he goes on to describes what Americans believe they should be eating and how they don’t even seem to care. They are nutritionist with their theories, the food industry supporting the theories by new healthy products, and the health industry reaping the reward by making medication to support those same theories. For Americans to escape this diet, they must get the idea of it out of their heads. Pollan then provides his own set of rules for escaping the

He then says, “the scientists who blame our health problems on deficiencies of micronutrients are not the same scientists who see a sugar soaked diet ….” (Pollan, 421). Many scientists blame Americas health problems on our lack of nutrients, but there are also some scientists who want to blame those health problems on a sugary diet (Pollan,421). Pollan’s point is that they all have the same thing in common They all are just mere explanations to western diseases. Then Pollan expands this idea by saying, “the solution would appear to remain very much the same: Stop eating a Western diet” (Pollan, 421). Pollan begins explaining that all the scientists have their own causes for western diseases, but the common factor among them is the western diet. After talking about the contradicting scientific theories, Pollan goes on to show the benefit the food industry and the health industry has because of it. Pollan starts to say that the health industry also wants to profit off Theories perversely talked about. Pollan points out how every time a new health kick comes out the food and heath industry immediately try to jump on the