To become a healthy and happy eater, Pollan lists sixty-four rules for eating. Those seven words provide the three-part structure for Pollan's how-to book. You can do this by following those seven little words from In Defense of Food. The "bottom line" is to move from the first category to the second. This is both unfortunate and unnecessary, for in his decades of food study, "the picture got simpler the deeper I went." Two empirical facts are indisputable - (1) people who eat a "Western" diet loaded with sugar, fat, salt, and highly processed foods experience far higher rates of preventable diseases, whereas (2) people who eat any number of widely different "traditional" diets are healthier. We rely on experts to advise us, try to pronounce five syllable words on food labels, and wonder which fats are good or bad. In the introduction to his newest book, Pollan observes how the simple act of eating has become way too complex. The mantra of the latter book contained seven words and three rules: "Eat food.
In the first book he considered "the ecological and ethical dimensions of our eating choices," or as one reviewer put it, balancing the demands of appetite and conscience.
Michael Pollan is a professor of journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, and with his two best sellers The Omnivore's Dilemma (2006) and In Defense of Food (2008) he established himself as a worthy food guru. This tiny treatise is so small that it barely qualifies as a book, but it carries a big message that could revolutionize your diet.
"A useful and funny purse-sized manual that could easily replace all the diet books on your bookshelf." -Tara Parker-Pope, The New York Times Product Details Each page has a simple rule, sometimes with a short explanation, sometimes without, that promotes Pollan's back-to-the-basics-of-food (and-food-enjoyment) philosophy." - The Los Angeles Times 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." - The Houston Chronicle "The most sensible diet plan ever? We think it's the one that Michael Pollan outlined a few years ago: “Eat food. "In the more than four decades that I have been reading and writing about the findings of nutritional science, I have come across nothing more intelligent, sensible and simple to follow than the 64 principles outlined in a slender, easy-to-digest new book called Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual, by Michael Pollan." -Jane Brody, The New York Times
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