A Nine Year Old Makes Me Laugh – Book Review of Michael Pollan – Food Rules – Healthy Eating

Rule 14 -- Eat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw sate or growing in nature.

Immediately she says, “Like crickets...”


Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

I recommend Food Rules: An Eater's Manual by Michael Pollan, not just because it may make you laugh, but because it cuts through all the commercial claptrap on what to eat and how.

He has 64 rules with very simple explanations. Most rules, chapters, are only one page. It will leave you with simple memorable ideas that will serve you well when you’re at the store or the restaurant.

It could make you healthy and happily well fed. Good things, right?


Here Are Some More Examples from Michael Pollan's Food Rules for You

Rule 2 -- Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.

See? This cuts out all processed foods.


Rule 20 -- It’s not food if it arrived through the window of your car.


Rule 32 -- Don’t overlook the oily little fishes.

Why? They have good nutrients for your heart among other things, are plentiful, and because they are lower down the food chain they don’t contain as much mercury. Also, they can be yummy.


Rule 36 – Don’t eat breakfast cereals that change the color of your milk.


Rule 60 – Treat treats as treats.

When I have one treat, it tends to lead to a long sequence of treats. I binge. Most of the time I paraphrase the aphorism from AA – Don’t have the first cookie.


Rule 39 – Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself.

On its own, this rule could repair the health of most Americans.

“The French fry did not become America’s most popular vegetable until industry took over the jobs of washing, peeling, cutting , and frying the potatoes – and cleaning up the mess.” Yeah, cleaning up the mess is right.

The same for fried chicken, chips, cakes, pies and ice cream.


I hope you enjoyed this book review of Michael Pollan’s Food Rules. Get the book, read it. Eat better and enjoy more.

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Blessings, and healthy eating,

William

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