I like to think of myself as a flexitarian, I make it a priority to stick to clean label ingredients as much as possible, and I cook most of my meals for myself.
“Eat food” and “mostly plants” all spelled out principles that I generally follow already. How I felt after a month of following Michael Pollan’s “food rules”Įating according to Michael Pollan’s rules wasn’t that big of a change for me. Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself.
Treat meat as a flavoring or special occasion food. Pollan emphasizes this with rules including: Additionally, whole grains and minimally processed ingredients are always preferable to refined sugars, long ingredient statements, and the types of items that you generally find in the middle aisles of the grocery store. Whether you follow a vegetarian, vegan, or omnivorous diet, fruits and vegetables will always play a starring role in any healthy diet. If you’re not hungry enough to eat an apple, then you’re probably not hungry. This section challenges assumptions about how we eat our food with rules like these: We generally know that it’s important to control our portion sizes, but we may not consider the rituals surrounding food and the importance they play in following a healthy diet. When you eat real food, you don’t need rules. Eat only foods that will eventually rot. Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce. Avoid food products that contain more than five ingredients. Don’t eat anything your great grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food. This quick read offers 83 “rules” that aren’t actually rules, but rather guidelines for what and how we should eat separated into three sections that summarize his approach to nutrition: “eat food, not too much, mostly plants.” Eat foodĮat real food rather than, in Pollan’s words, “edible foodlike substances.” This section of the book encourages eating clean, whole ingredients and avoiding ultra processed items with rules such as: Michael Pollan, author and food writer with over 30 years of experience exploring diet, culture, and nutrition, succinctly addresses this in his incredibly smart and useful book, Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual. While complex and sometimes confusing, most of these diets contain elements of traditional wisdom that suggest we should focus on eating whole, unprocessed foods and controlling our portions. However, everyone’s body is different, and specific sets of rules don’t work universally. For some, one of these plans (or a combination of multiple) is ideal for maintaining balance and controlling nutrition. Words and plans like paleo, keto, Whole30, gluten free, vegan, intermittent fasting, and intuitive eating are all over the place each being touted by their followers as the best way to live a healthy lifestyle. Nutrition is complicated, and many people struggle to identify the right diet for them.
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