“Human beings ate well and kept themselves healthy for millennia before nutritional science came and told us how to do it,” he says in Food Rules. Pollan reckons we are at a point where we’ve stopped seeing foods – “but instead look right thorough them,” and assures that it is actually entirely possible to eat healthily without knowing what an antioxidant is. We sit at dinner wondering if we should touch gluten, bin those carbs or eat that melon five hours before everything else. Most of us rely on experts, books and TV shows to tell us how to eat. “Eating in our time has gotten complicated,” says Michael Pollan. The rules aim to painlessly wean us off the Western diet responsible for a wealth of prolific illnesses and onto positive, healthy, simple enjoyable eating habits. In his latest book, Food Rules, Pollan ‘unpacks’ these seven words into a set of 64 simple adages, designed to simplify our eating practices. While researching his book In Defense of Food, journalist Michael Pollan realised that what we should eat could be simply summarised in seven words: Eat food. Debbie Willimott explores Michael Pollan's Food Rules, a collection of information he has gathered over time from a variety of sources including grandmothers, different cultures, the seasons, folklorists, and traditions.
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