Obesity In Escape From The Western Diet by Michael Moss 'food. However, Pollan bases his entire article on his opinion on how Americans should eat (Pollan, 420). Pollan's Rules: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly Plants,” could serve as a framework for a fad diet, but these rules don’t necessarily provide a reasonable solution to America’s obesity problem. The rules do not provide a solution because they are too vague; you can't solve a nationwide problem using a system that recognizes no factors other than what Americans are supposed to eat. Logical errors appear in Escape from the Western Diet and undermine its credibility, such as the false dichotomy, the question posed and the hasty generalization. In Pollan's quote, "People who follow a Western diet are subject to a range of chronic illnesses that rarely strike people who follow a more traditional diet" (Pollan, 421), the fallacy of hasty generalization is obvious, because not everyone who follows a Western diet is necessarily affected. prone to chronic diseases. The quote that “the health care industry…has more to gain from new drugs and procedures to treat chronic diseases than from a radical change in the way people eat” (Pollan, 422) is a prime example of the begging of the Wrong question, because this

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