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Book Report On The Omnivores Dilemma By Michael Pollan

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“What should I eat” “What am I eating and where in the world did it come from?” These are the questions we often ask every time we buy our food. What is it made of and if they are healthy or not? I am one of the “healthy crazy people” that will search for every single content of the food before I buy it. I always look for the “Nutrition Facts” - calories, fat, cholesterol, sodium, and carbohydrate. Just to make sure that I am serving my family the healthy kind of food that is good for their health. On the other hand, I rifle for those nutrient facts but I don’t know where they came from and how it has developed. In this book The Omnivores Dilemma by Michael Pollan, He is trying to prove a point that all the food that we placed

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