Michael Pollan’s “Food Rules”

If you have not yet watched the documentary Food Inc., I highly encourage you to do so. It’s brilliantly done. I promise that it’s not another dramatic film made to make you feel entirely disgusted and sickened by the the meat industry and the treatment of animals. It doesn’t try to scare you, it simply provides information regarding our food industry that goes unnoticed. It’s incredibly eye opening and powerful.

The film features interviews with Michael Pollan, author of “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto” and “The Omnivore’s Dilemma”.I love Michael Pollan’s ideas and think he is a great example of someone taking a balanced approach to eating in a healthy, responsible manner. It can feel too overwhelming to make changes in our own life when we discover that almost everything we consume is genetically modified or filled with chemicals & preservatives. But thankfully Pollan helps us take the first steps.Pollan’s book, “Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual,” is a straight-forward, pocket sized manual of rules to live and eat by. He is quick to say, that these are goals to aim for, and making one little change is better than not making any.

Here are a few of my favorites:

1. If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don’t.
2. Don’t eat breakfast cereals that change the color of the milk.
3. Don’t eat anything your great grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.
4. Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it for yourself.
5. Avoid foods you see advertised on television.
6. Eat your colors.
7. Treat treats as treats.
8. Don’t eat anything that won’t eventually rot.
9. Break the rules once and awhile.

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