Michael Pollan, a tremendous journalist and author, has wrote several books concerning our food supply and connection or disconnection from such. Omnivore’s Dilemma went through the process of seeking and consuming food and eloquently showed the reader about our choices and how we may be able to make better ones if we were to become more “connected” with what we are eating.
We will now be going through Food Rules – An Eater’s Manual, which is wonderfully simple, a quick read, and something that really puts the “meat on the bones” for making good food choices.
Rule #1 = Eat Food: The substances that we call food today are probably not worthy of being called actual food. Pollan says they are “edible foodlike substances” (2009).
Look at the label of what you are purchasing – if there are more than about 6 ingredients, consider yourself eating foodlike substances, WHICH ARE NOT REALLY FOOD, and not very good for you. Also, if you cannot pronounce the word that is an ingredient, or if it sounds like something that could be dangerous if ingested, don’t eat it either (i.e. Polyglycerol Polyricinoleate (PGPR) – E476).
Pollan, M. (2009). Food Rules – An Eater’s Manual. New York, NY: Penguin Books.
