The best way to escape these marketing ploys is to tune out the marketing itself, by refusing to buy heavily promoted foods. It’s time we ate like our great-grandmas.#11 Avoid foods you see advertised on television.įood marketers are ingenious at turning criticisms of their products - and rules like these - into new ways to sell slightly different versions of the same processed foods: They simply reformulate (to be low-fat, have no HFCS or transfats, or to contain fewer ingredients) and then boast about their implied healthfulness, whether the boast is meaningful or not. He ends his book with Rule 64: “Break the rules once in a while.” Decades of obsessing about nutrition - eating low-fat this and low-carb that, drinking sugar-free sodas and vitamin-enhanced water - haven’t made us thinner or healthier. But he doesn’t insist that we give it up entirely. He urges us to eat less meat, and better-raised meat. Hard-core vegetarians complain about the “-ly” in the rule “mostly plants.” So be it: Pollan isn’t dogmatic. And Rules 58 (“Do all your eating at a table”) and 59 (“Try not to eat alone”) will help you slow down and enjoy your meals more. But if you follow Rule 52 - “Buy smaller glasses and plates” - your portions will seem larger. 20: “It’s not food if it arrived through the window of your car.”įor most of us, “not too much” is especially hard. If it was made in a plant, don’t.” Or Rule 36: “Don’t eat breakfast cereals that change the color of your milk.” Or Rule No. Our great-grandmas knew what they were doing.īut in the last few decades, we seem to have lost that old cultural know-how - or maybe it’s just hard to remember it in our drive-thru world. But populations that eat more traditional diets don’t. Pollan points out that populations that eat like modern-day Americans - lots of highly processed foods and meat, lots of added fat and sugar, lots of refined grains - suffer high rates of obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Real food is things that your great-grandmother (or someone’s great-grandmother) would recognize.
Real food doesn’t have a long ingredient list, isn’t advertised on TV, and it doesn’t contain stuff like maltodextrin or sodium tripolyphosphate. 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.īy “food” Pollan means real food, not creations of the food-industrial complex.
The most sensible diet plan ever? We think it’s the one that Michael Pollan outlined a few years ago: “Eat food. How to Eat Diet secrets from Michael Pollan (and your great-grandma) Houston Chronicle
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