Eating Right For Life According To Michael Pollan
Posted by LD on April 2, 2010 under Diet | 
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Michael Pollan is an author who has been writing almost exclusively about food for ten years. He writes about where our food comes from, how it gets to us, and what it is doing to us. He says.
Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.
This is his advice on eating healthy in 7 words. And that’s it, article over.
OK not really. It does require some explaining in order for it to be useful. Lets break it down into 3 parts.
Eat food.
Michael breaks things down into “Food” and “Edible Food Like Substances (FLS).” Food is a raw material. Food requires no (or very little) packaging. Food Rots. Food is on the outside walls of the grocery store. Food doesn’t contain ingredients (or if it does they are all pronounceable).Food doesn’t have any marketing campaign. Food is something your Great Great Grandmother would recognize.
Food Like Substance is all the stuff in the middle of the super market. It contains unpronounceable ingredients. It has health claims on the box. It is packaged to have a very long shelf life. FLS have massive marketing campaigns.