Simple tips for eating healthy in ‘Manifesto’
Published 8:22 pm Monday, May 18, 2009
Michael Pollan’s “In Defense of Food, An Eater’s Manifesto” has simple advice on healthful eating: Eat food, not too much, mostly plants. Pollan, who has written tomes on food including the best-selling “The Omnivore’s Dilemma,” said he deliberately kept his latest book, short and simple.
“I was able to cut through the underbrush and discover that those seven words say it all. The deeper I delved into the whole field of nutrition science and the whole issue of what you should eat, the simpler it got,” Pollan said.
Pollan’s rules
Avoid products that make health claims.
Shop in the peripheries of the supermarket, where the fresh food is; avoid the middle, where processed food resides.
Eat meals, not snacks.
Eat plants, especially leaves.
Don’t get your fuel from the same place your car gets gas.
Eat slowly, at a table, and try not to eat alone.
Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service
