Michael Pollan's "Food Rules: A Guide to Eating Wisely"

Anon: This cool and simple little book tells you 64 things you probably already knew. But in today's world of fast food, health food fads, and advertising brainwashing, it's useful to be able to deprogram yourself now and then with reminders about what food really ought to be. Example: Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. I can't argue with that (although your grandmama experience may vary)!

United States on Jan 05, 2024

Adrienne GrellnerAdrienne Grellner: Has the essentials on basic knowing for how to be better with dieting away from the western diet.

United States on Dec 31, 2023

Amazon Customer: While some elements of the book will tell you what I am sure you already know. Other aspects cover thing i wish I had been told earlier. While you don't have to follow all the rules and some seem to be repetative. Its an easy little read that can have a big impact on diet.

United Kingdom on Nov 24, 2023

Shibashish: The simplicity of the book is the draw as well. Logical as hell with easy to follow rules. Highly recommend

India on Apr 09, 2023

David Brent: Great format. Great information. Author Michael Pollan shares easy-to-use wisdom on eating. It becomes part of your new vocabulary for good decision-making for your health and overall wellness.

Canada on Dec 10, 2021

Spatty55: Generalmente muchos libros de nutrición tienden a ser muy radicales. Lo bueno de este libro es que es consecuente, y realista. Proporciona recomendaciones generales fáciles de llevar a cabo, con buena filosofía.

Mexico on Nov 27, 2019

Darren Rathbone: In defence of food is still I think the best book I have read about what we should eat. For those hat have read it, this is a quick easy refresher. For those that want a taste of what that book is about, this is a quick easy place to start. If we all followed this advise, we would all be a lot healthier. My fav is rule 43, I’m good at that one!

Australia on Apr 28, 2019

Live Outside: This was a short novel but I enjoyed all the little bits of information that was inside. The book’s sole purpose is to give you some guidelines for eating.

The links between diet and health according to this novel is that individuals who eat a Western diet (lots of processed food, food with added sugar and fat, and lots of refined grains) will suffer from Western diseases such as obesity, Type 2 diabetes, cancer and cardio diseases. That totally makes sense to me but I didn’t know it was known as a Western diet. The second link is that if you eat a traditional diet (a lot of different varieties here) you will not suffer from these diseases. Which basically means, no one diet is perfect but as humans we have adapted to different diets to make them work for us. The Western diet, as it stands now, is the diet which makes everyone ill. Inside this novel, there are 64 rules to live by to eat a healthy diet. These rules are explained further with a brief explanation, if needed.

Some of these rules I had heard about before but about half of them were new to me. There are three parts to the novel: What to eat? What kinds of food should I eat? And How should I eat? Each...

United States on Oct 02, 2017

Jimmy Moore from Livin' La Vida Low-Carb: If you've been paying attention at all to the subject of diet and health over the past few years, then there's no doubt you've heard of the name Michael Pollan. A trained journalist, he's transitioned from reporting on the story to BECOMING the story with his highly-influential New York Times bestselling books  The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals  and  In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto  as well as a major appearance in the critically-acclaimed film on the state of our food supply in America called  Food, Inc. . Yes, Pollan has been a busy man and he's doing great work educating the public about what healthy eating is all about. While most people tend to make their diet more complicated than it needs to be, the reality is it's rather elementary if you stick with a few basic principles to guide your daily decisions. That's the concept behind Pollan's latest offering called Food Rules: An Eater's Manual.

An unassuming little 4.5×7-inch book, this is one power-packed punch of information you can use to make healthy decisions for you and your family. Broken up into three parts-"What Should I Eat?" "What Kind Of Food Should I...

United States on Jun 02, 2010