The Western Diet: A Recipe for Poor Health Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food offers a compelling critique of the Western Diet and its detrimental effects on our health. The book explores how our modern diet, dominated by processed foods, has led to widespread disease and poor health. Pollan’s work could easily be subtitled “The Food Industry’s Worst Nightmare,” as it reveals the dark side of processed foods—from everyday staples like flour to indulgences like Twinkies—and their harmful impact on our well-being. Processed Foods: The Hidden Villain Pollan argues that the shift from the traditional hunter-gatherer lifestyle to our current…