Escape from the Western Diet describes Pollan's primary occupation as an author of books on food and nutrition, not as a food scientist, 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,” might serve as a great setup 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 national problem using a system that fails to recognize any factors other than what Americans supposedly should eat. Logical errors emerge in Escape from the Western Diet and compromise its credibility, such as the false dichotomy, the beginning of the question and the hasty generalization. In Pollan's quote, "people who follow a Western diet are subject to a complex of chronic diseases that rarely affect people who follow more traditional diets" (Pollan, 421), the fallacy of the Hasty Generalization is evident, as not all people who follow a Western diet are prone to chronic diseases. The quote, “the healthcare industry… will profit more from new drugs and procedures to treat chronic diseases than from a total change in the way people eat” (Pollan, 422) is a great example of Begging the Mistake of the question, like this