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google "eat food, mostly plants, not too much" – it's Michael Pollan's summary of how to eat healthy. There's a long NY Times article and a short book based on
by matt4077 12y ago
google "eat food, mostly plants, not too much" – it's Michael Pollan's summary of how to eat healthy. There's a long NY Times article and a short book based on it.
By "food" he means "food your great-grandmother would recognise as such". A good rule of thumb is to focus on foods that don't have an ingredients label. Anything that is green is also a good bet – leafy plants are incredibly complex chemical cocktails and the human body evolved in tandem with it.
- cbd1984 12y ago> By "food" he means "food your great-grandmother would recognise as such". So, no sushi, no fresh fruits except the few which were available around here circa 1900s, no African food, no Asian food, etc. > A good rule of thumb is to focus on foods that don't have an ingredients label. Yes. By all means, eat food which could contain who knows what. > leafy plants are incredibly complex chemical cocktails and the human body evolved in tandem with it. This only applies to foods found in the Rift Valley in Africa.