64 Rules for Eating Right from Michael Pollan By Mary MacVean
The Los Angeles Times, January 15, 2010 Michael Pollan is
sounding suspiciously like my mother: “Eat when you are hungry,
not when you are bored.” And: “Do all your eating at a table.”
Or maybe more like that little angel that sits on one shoulder:
“Avoid food products that contain high fructose corn syrup.”
(Not, he says, because it’s less healthful than sugar, but
because it’s a sign of a highly processed product.) Those and 61
other notions make up the influential author’s new book, “Food
Rules” (Penguin, $11 paperback), meant to be a simple guide to
eating, something anyone can use without reading through a lot
of science and nutrition research. And it is really simple, with
many of the rules along the lines of things many people know if
they stop to think about it. Pollan, author of “The Omnivore’s
Dilemma” and a professor at UC Berkeley, makes some of the
advice clever: “If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made
in a plant, don’t.” The