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Food Writer Michael Pollan Tells CDC By Daniel J. DeNoon WebMD
Health News Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD We Americans suffer a
national eating disorder: our unhealthy obsession with healthy
eating. That's the diagnosis delivered by food author Michael
Pollan in a lecture given last week to an overflow crowd of CDC
scientists. As part of an effort to bring new ideas to the
national debate on food issues, the CDC invited Pollan -- a
harsh critic of U.S. food policies -- to address CDC researchers
and to meet with leaders of the federal agency. "The French
paradox is that they have better heart health than we do despite
being a cheese-eating, wine-swilling, fois-gras-gobbling
people," Pollan said. "The American paradox is we are a people
who worry unreasonably about dietary health yet have the worst
diet in the world." In various parts of the world, Pollan noted,
necessity has forced human beings to adapt to all kinds of
diets. "The Masai subsist on