Pollan's 7 rules for eating6/12/2023 ![]() #39 Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself. Such cereals are highly processed and full of refined carbohydrates as well as chemical additives. ![]() #36 Don’t eat breakfast cereals that change the color of the milk. #19 If it came from a plant, eat it if it was made in a plant, don’t. ![]() #11 Avoid foods you see advertised on television. Now here is a sample of Pollan’s “rules” from with his own comments after some of them. Here’s Michael Pollan’s generalized rule: If you want to feed your children healthy, clean food, use these few, simple rules as your guide. We’re not even dealing with the pesticides applied to crops, here, but the empty calories in processed food. ![]() ![]() Rules such as “Eat the fresh food around the perimeter of a supermarket, rather than the processed food in the center aisles,” remind us that large corporations have removed the essential nutrition from packaged foods, substituting high fructose corn syrup that makes it taste good, but leaving very little or no nutrition.Ī steady diet of these kinds of “fake foods,” many with long chemical names that we don’t understand, is responsible for the increasing rates of obesity, hyperactivity, diabetes, heart disease, and plenty of other unhealthy conditions unknown to our ancestors. ![]()
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