![]() ![]() "Always leave the table a little hungry," Pollan says. It is not just what you eat but how you eat. ![]() "There are exceptions - honey - but as a rule, things like Twinkies that never go bad aren't food," Pollan says. Real food tends to be on the outer edge of the store near the loading docks, where it can be replaced with fresh foods when it goes bad.ĭon't eat anything that won't eventually rot. Stay out of the middle of the supermarket shop on the perimeter of the store. "When you pick up that box of portable yogurt tubes, or eat something with 15 ingredients you can't pronounce, ask yourself, "What are those things doing there?" Pollan says.ĭon’t eat anything with more than five ingredients, or ingredients you can't pronounce. "Eat food" means to eat real food - vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and, yes, fish and meat - and to avoid what Pollan calls "edible food-like substances."ĭon't eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. Probably the first two words are most important. ![]() ![]() Michael Pollan says everything he's learned about food can be summed up in seven words: "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants." He is the bestselling author of several books including In Defense of Food, The Omnivore’s Dilemma and Food Rules, featured here. For over 30 years, Michael Pollan has been writing about where nature and culture intersect: on our plates, in our farms and gardens, and in our communities. ![]()
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