Stay out of the middle of the supermarket shop on the perimeter of the store.Don’t eat anything with more than five ingredients, or ingredients you can't pronounce." 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. Don't eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food."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. Probably the first two words are most important. Increasing rates of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease in the U.S. " The irony is, the one diet we have invented for ourselves - the Western diet - is the one that makes us sick. And the Inuit in Greenland subsist on whale blubber and a little bit of lichen ," he said. Native Americans subsist on beans and maize. " The Masai subsist on cattle blood and meat and milk and little else. In various parts of the world, Pollan noted, necessity has forced human beings to adapt to all kinds of diets. " The American paradox is we are a people who worry unreasonably about dietary health yet have the worst diet in the world.
" The French paradox is that they have better heart health than we do despite being a cheese-eating, wine-swilling, fois-gras-gobbling people, " Pollan said. Pollan strongly believes that Americans suffer a national eating disorder: the unhealthy obsession with healthy living. He has wrote some pretty relevant stuff, including one of my favorite books of all time The Omnivore’s Dilemma that I will soon review here on TIY. He’s been described as a liberal foodie intellectual but what’s most relevant about him it’s his knowledge about food and, moreover, the food industry.įor the past twenty-five years, he has been writing books and articles about the places where nature and culture intersect: on our plates, in our farms and gardens, and in the built environment. Michael Pollan is an American author, journalist, activist, and, last but not least, a professor of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. Michael Pollan? If not you should better get on board because he’s one individual capable of changing the way you think about food.
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