Tag: The omnivore s dilemma

According to a 2017 study from the National Institutes of Health, the consumption of fast food is strongly associated with an increased risk of overweight and obesity. Michael Pollan's provocative phrase, 'eating alone together,' offers a deeper social and psychological explanation for this phenomenon, revealing how fast food undermines the very nature of communal eating and encourages us to eat more, not because we are hungry, but because we are distracted and disconnected.

In 2024, the film *Food, Inc. 2* further highlighted the issues Michael Pollan's book originally exposed nearly two decades prior, revealing a food system that has become even more consolidated and opaque. In *The Omnivore's Dilemma*, Pollan reveals that the industrial food chain is fundamentally unnatural, unsustainable, and largely based on a single crop: corn.