![]() ![]() ![]() You can do this by following those seven little words from In Defense of Food. The "bottom line" is to move from the first category to the second. This is both unfortunate and unnecessary, for in his decades of food study, "the picture got simpler the deeper I went." Two empirical facts are indisputable - (1) people who eat a "Western" diet loaded with sugar, fat, salt, and highly processed foods experience far higher rates of preventable diseases, whereas (2) people who eat any number of widely different "traditional" diets are healthier. We rely on experts to advise us, try to pronounce five syllable words on food labels, and wonder which fats are good or bad. In the introduction to his newest book, Pollan observes how the simple act of eating has become way too complex. ![]() The mantra of the latter book contained seven words and three rules: "Eat food. ![]() In the first book he considered "the ecological and ethical dimensions of our eating choices," or as one reviewer put it, balancing the demands of appetite and conscience. Michael Pollan is a professor of journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, and with his two best sellers The Omnivore's Dilemma (2006) and In Defense of Food (2008) he established himself as a worthy food guru. This tiny treatise is so small that it barely qualifies as a book, but it carries a big message that could revolutionize your diet. Michael Pollan, Food Rules An Eater's Manual (New York: Penguin Books, 2009), 140pp. ![]()
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