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That's why the Pollan advice to "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly Plants" is so good and more profound than is commonly understood. 1) Eat food. This is basicall
by asdajksah2123 4y ago
That's why the Pollan advice to "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly Plants" is so good and more profound than is commonly understood.
1) Eat food. This is basically saying eat stuff that is traditionally considered food in different cultures (i.e., stuff that has been eaten for centuries) because doing nutritional studies is hard, but the fact that certain cultures have thrived for centuries and even millenia eating "food" provides decent evidence that it works.
2) Not too much. This is necessary as a restriction to #1 because in the past it wasn't easy or even possible to eat "too much" since you didn't have modern conveniences that make it easy to prepare food and you couldn't just order it for delivery. So you have to explicitly ensure you don't eat "too much", something that was implicitly enforced in the past.
3) Mostly Plants. If there is one thing all nutritional studies have found, and the one thing that pretty much all the science in this area can agree upon, is that eating plants (i.e. vegetables) is good for you, and for the most part, the more the better. But also note that he is saying "Plants" and not "Veggies" in a nod to the idea that it should be largely simply prepared and as close to its natural formation as possible, so buying a bag of "veggie straws" does not count.
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> eating plants (i.e. vegetables)…in a nod to the idea that it should be largely simply prepared and as close to its natural formation as possible Plenty of cultures heavily process their plants, and for good reason: the raw form is less nutritious. Plants != vegetables. Vegetables exclude fruits and uncultivated plants; wildflowers are delicious and definitively plants but debatably veggies [1]. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable
- Isamu 4y agoSome common foods (e.g. kidney beans) must be properly cooked for them to be not poisonous. Chocolate is an example of a food that is highly processed just for it to be reasonably less bitter and unpromising as it is in raw form.
- copperx 4y agoPollan's advice is based on hunches. I'd like some science to back all of that up, especially the "mostly plants" bit. Eating mostly plants increases your exposure to pesticides significantly, especially if eating organic produce.
- hombre_fatal 4y agoHow hard did you look?
- 331c8c71 4y agoImo there's nothing profound about the quote but your writing is very convincing. You could do sales/marketing (if you aren't doing it already).