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This was a well written book on the history and future of food consumption. I liked that this author emphasized that it is not often the individual who is at fault for obesity but the corporations that are presenting poor quality food and targeting the most vulnerable. It surprised me to know that even the healthy foods like fruits and vegetables are no longer packed with the high amount of nutrients that it used to. Most produce is factory made and packed with so much sugar to entice the unaware consumer. Its alarmingly compelling.

Changing Food, Changing Bodies

Modern-day food is complex, from the sourcing of it from all around the globe to the gazillion packaged and processed possibilities available to us at our local grocery stores. This author does a magnificent job looking at the history of food production and consumption and how it has all changed in very modern times. The globalization of food is looked at as well as the corporations that only care about profit and not the health of their customers. While she backs up what she says with a lot of facts and figures, the book is written in an easily accessible conversational tone. The topics are grouped almost like essays, making it easy to dip in when you have a spare moment or two. This is perfect, as I certainly wouldn't recommend trying to read this in just a few sittings because the author gives us much—pun intended—food for thought. I like how she gives a broader context for how we may or may not make our food choices. I appreciated how she did not demonize the obese, as many in society do; rather, she sees it within the context of a cultural environment that is surrounded by plenty, especially an abundance of unhealthy, cheap choices. The author doesn't come across as blaming or shaming individuals at all, though she does have strong words for those who would benefit from our poor eating choices. She certainly gives you much to think about what you should and should not do in terms of your own food choices. Highly recommended, because we all need to eat!

Bee Wilson writes so well explains &answers our questions about food.Her book is informative educational helps Us lead a healthy life style.#netgalley#thewayweeatnow

I love this book so much.
This book taught me to reflect on our relationships with food. How have our feelings about food changed? How have our food sources change?
The ethical or organic labels on our food have always been looked on by me with disdain as i have had too many food scares. Here, it provides me hope and also to think of my food origins- how this food source was like and how it affected the people who grew them.
This book is long but it is a needed read, for I find its importance in combating many ills of the society.

I think Wilson does a fantastic job of being conversational and understandable but still being knowledgeable and citing her sources. It’s a hard balance to strike sometimes. I think she does a particularly good job of showing that obesity isn’t the willpower problem that society often tries to pass it off as. It’s so many other things in your environment that influence your food options and choices.

THE WAY WE EAT NOW by Bee Wilson contains an analysis of "how the food revolution has transformed our lives, our bodies and our world." Wilson, a food historian and Wall Street Journal commentator who lives in England, notes the trends towards globalization and more variety in what we eat as well as a move towards diets that are simultaneously both more and less healthy.

For example, I found her comments about looking at what we drink and the calories associated with that to be very interesting. She cites research that says, "we have reached a state where many people – adults and children alike – can no longer recognize a simple thirst for water, because they have become so accustomed to liquids tasting of something else." There are no recipes in this somewhat academic work, but numerous charts (decreasing cooking oil prices, increasing consumption of processed potatoes, etc.) and numerous detailed statistics (e.g., changes in rye bread consumption in the Czech Republic and its impact on diet) are included.

Given students' interest in nutrition, diet and health, this will be a useful text to supplement their research (perhaps involving related works by Perlmutter, Pollan, Schlosser, and Taubes), particularly for Junior Theme. THE WAY WE EAT NOW received a starred review from Booklist and contains a sixteen-page bibliography, extensive notes and a helpful index.

I received this arc from NetGalley for an honest review. "The way we eat now" is an informative book about our access to food and how we eat differs from back in history. There's a lot of information but it doesn't come in a preachy form. Definitely getting my own copy.

Bee Wilson has written a brilliantly non-judgemental balanced book which thoroughly investigates our eating habits (past, present, future). In spite of the book title, I found the tone of the book, and even the information provided, happily devoid of moralism; Wilson isn't interested in making us feel bad about the way we eat but she is interested in providing a food education that allows the reader to be aware of the vast and considerable context behind our food choices.

The premise of the book lies in the terrifying fact that the way we are eating now is the cause of the highest rate of disease and death internationally (beating tobacco and alcohol). In the book she analyses diet transitions, for example the impact of sugary drinks and packaged snack food upon cultures and countries around the world, and the massive reverberation that this has had upon our social, nutritional and psychological eating habits. Wilson presents the problems and horror stories of both clean eating and ready meals (or takeways or food substitutes) but in spite of the numbers, the facts, the consequences of a global mono diet, the paradox of choice, climate change and our obsessive food fads, she remains confident and hopeful about a future where behavioural change will set us back on track to healthy and happy eating.

An important book for our times and bellies!

The Way We Eat Now is a fascinating look at the history of food consumption and the ways in which it has changed over time. Wilson adeptly explains major shifts in eating: from the agricultural revolution to the mass production of processed foods in recent decades. She highlights the positive and negative effects of these drastic diet changes, from devastating environmental impacts to increases in human longevity. Wilson's main argument is that despite living in a time of vast food abundance and variety, humans are growing more and more unhealthy. Wilson maintains a highly narrative voice throughout, making the reading easy and engaging. In fact, the book reads almost as a series of essays, making it easy to consume in smaller parts which is always nice in a nonfiction book. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in food, history, and humans' environmental impact.

The Way We Eat Now far surpassed my expectations. In this era of countless Netflix documentaries and books on the latest 'tricks' in nutrition and reports on food consumption, it's refreshing to receive a work of substance. Bee Wilson presents a wide, wide range of food trends and issues, and shares the science of food in a relatable way. It's fascinating to look at each of the movements in food trends, from the not-too-distant past to the present. I highly recommend this read. It's not just informative, it's resonant and gets you to think clearly about your food choices. Simply put, this book says, "You can do better," a fine course correction to benefit the reader and the reader's family. Very well done. Thank you to #NetGalley for the ARC, and many thanks to the author for putting so much time and effort into this stellar work.

The Way We Eat Now is a very interesting and informative book on how good has changed over the years. The clearly did her research on why and how it has changed over the years. This book is easy to read and will make you think about the food you eat.

I liked this book. It was informative and really made you think about what we eat and how that has changed throughout the years. Sometimes a return to the older ways is just what we need. Progress isn't always good for us.

One of the best books about food and eating I've read. The Way We Eat Now describes our relationship with food in detail, but not in a preachy kind of way. This book is very informative, I've learned a lot of new things about food. The writing style is accessible for a lot of people, and it's easy to read even though you're not very knowledgeable of the topics discussed. I think this is an important book and I hope many people pick it up.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for an ARC to read. Opinions are my own!

A wonderful book! Anyone who is concerned about wellness, weight gain, or the environment needs to read this book. Bee Wilson has done a marvelous and comprehensive study of the vast changes in how we eat during the last thirty or so years. She covers it all - grocery stores, vegetable vs. meat consumption, advertising and marketing of food, the new boxed meal kits, and why all these changes took place in the years after WWII.

An excellent book, strongly and highly recommended. The author is a terrific storyteller, so this book is both informative and a great read. I truly enjoyed it, and it will change how I eat from now on.

This is not a recipes book or a diet one, is an interesting survey on what we eat now, and why and mostly it explains why in less than 100 years our eating habits changed so much. I really appreciate the way the author handles the researches and the results without saying what should be better and why, I mean she does it also, but she doesn't do that hiding between the results that she chose to put forward her theory, which is something that usually happens whenever we read about food and all the things that we are not supposed to eat, but still we do. All in all, a very special book about food.

Questo non é né un libro di ricette, nè una nuova dieta, é un'osservazione piena di ricerche e studi sull'attuale stato della nutrizione in tutte le parti del mondo e di come le nostre abitudini alimentari siano cambiate in meno di 1oo anni. Quello che ho apprezzato particolarmente dell'autrice, é stato il suo modo di illustrare tutte le ricerche e non solo quelle che lei ritenevano fossero piú utili a portare avanti il suo punto di vista, o un tipo di alimentazione rispetto ad un'altra, e questo non capita di solito in questo tipo di libri, dove gli autori sono soliti portare l'acqua al loro mulino ignorando risultati che non confermano le loro teorie rispetto a cosa sia il caso di mangiare e cosa sia meglio evitare. Tutto sommato un ottimo libro sul cibo.

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