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“Avoid food products containing ingredients that are A) unfamiliar B) unpronounceable C) more than five in number or that include D) high-fructose corn syrup” (In Defense of Food Quotes)
Michael Pollan
In Defense of Food
“But don’t take the silence of the yams as a sign that they have nothing valuable to say about health.”
Michael Pollan
In Defense of Food
“Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom.”
Michael Pollan
In Defense of Food
“Don’t eat anything incapable of rotting.”
Michael Pollan
In Defense of Food
“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
Michael Pollan
In Defense of Food
“Four of the top ten causes of death today are chronic diseases with well-established links to diet: coronary heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and cancer.”
Michael Pollan
In Defense of Food
“Government regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa.”
Michael Pollan
In Defense of Food
“If you’re concerned about your health, you should probably avoid products that make health claims. Why? Because a health claim on a food product is a strong indication it’s not really food, and food is what you want to eat”
Michael Pollan
In Defense of Food
“Nutrition science has usually put more of its energies into the idea that the problems it studies are the result of too much of a bad thing instead of too little of a good thing.”
Michael Pollan
In Defense of Food
“Okinawa, one of the longest-lived and healthiest populations in the world, practice a principle they call hara hachi bu: Eat until you are 80 percent full.”
Michael Pollan
In Defense of Food
“That anyone should need to write a book advising people to “eat food” could be taken as a measure of our alienation and confusion. Or we can choose to see it in a more positive light and count ourselves fortunate indeed that there is once again real food for us to eat.”
Michael Pollan
In Defense of Food
“The billions we spend on anti-inflammatory drugs such as aspirin, ibuprofen, and acetaminophen is money spent to undo the effects of too much omega-6 in the diet.”
Michael Pollan
In Defense of Food
“The cook in the kitchen preparing a meal from plants and animals at the end of this shortest of food chains has a great many things to worry about, but “health” is simply not one of them, because it is given.”
Michael Pollan
In Defense of Food
“The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it, does not seem to be one of them.”
Michael Pollan
In Defense of Food
“The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.”
Michael Pollan
In Defense of Food
“There is a lot more religion in science than you might expect.”
Michael Pollan
In Defense of Food
“You are what what you eat eats.”
Michael Pollan
In Defense of Food
