6/1/2023 0 Comments Food Rules by Michael Pollan![]() ![]() But if you follow Rule 52 - “Buy smaller glasses and plates” - your portions will seem larger. 20: “It’s not food if it arrived through the window of your car.”įor most of us, “not too much” is especially hard. If it was made in a plant, don’t.” Or Rule 36: “Don’t eat breakfast cereals that change the color of your milk.” Or Rule No. ![]() ![]() Our great-grandmas knew what they were doing.īut in the last few decades, we seem to have lost that old cultural know-how - or maybe it’s just hard to remember it in our drive-thru world. But populations that eat more traditional diets don’t. Pollan points out that populations that eat like modern-day Americans - lots of highly processed foods and meat, lots of added fat and sugar, lots of refined grains - suffer high rates of obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer. ![]() Real food is things that your great-grandmother (or someone’s great-grandmother) would recognize. Real food doesn’t have a long ingredient list, isn’t advertised on TV, and it doesn’t contain stuff like maltodextrin or sodium tripolyphosphate. Mostly plants.” So we’re happy that in his little new book, Food Rules, Pollan offers more common-sense rules for eating: 64 of them, in fact, all thought-provoking and some laugh-out-loud funny.īy “food” Pollan means real food, not creations of the food-industrial complex. The most sensible diet plan ever? We think it’s the one that Michael Pollan outlined a few years ago: “Eat food. How to Eat Diet secrets from Michael Pollan (and your great-grandma) Houston Chronicle ![]()
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