There’s a lot of money in the Western diet. The more you process any food, the more profitable it becomes. The health-care industry makes more money treating chronic diseases (which account for three quarters of the $2 trillion plus we spend each year on health care in this country) than preventing them.
Michael Pollan

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Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan

Author of a number of New York Times best-selling books on nutrition.

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