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1. Michael Pollan’s Food Rules

   1. Eat food.
   2. Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.
   3. Avoid food products containing ingredients that no ordinary human would keep in the pantry.
   4. Avoid food products that contain high-fructose corn syrup.
   5. Avoid foods that have some form of sugar (or sweetener) listed among the top three ingredients.
   6. Avoid food products that contain more than five ingredients.
   7. Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce.
   8. Avoid food products that make health claims.
   9. Avoid food products with the word “lite” or the terms “low-fat” or “nonfat” in their names.
   10. Avoid foods that are pretending to be something they are not.
   11. Avoid foods that you see advertised on television.
   12. Shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle.

   Via Jay Parkinson:

   Everyone should read Michael Pollan’s Food Rules. It takes a total of a half an hour of your time. And I hope that it changes your relationship with food forever. These are just the first twelve “rules” but there are 64 pleasantly entertaining rules to eat by. 

   Rachel has slowly converted me into a healthy eater over the last year. It’s made me a bit paranoid about what I eat, but I’ve noticed some awesome changes:

   • Soda, even with natural sugar, tastes disgustingly sweet. All I want to drink any more is unsweetened tea.
   • I crave way less meat.
   • I have been craving specific vegetables, most recently onions, red peppers, and avocados.
   • There’s much less repetition in my diet.
   • I snack much less.
   • I don’t feel like I’m stuffed or starving anymore.
   • I fall asleep quickly.
   • My poo is awesome.
   • I haven’t seen a string cheese in months.
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   Posted on July 6th, 2010 at 12:30am Posted 1 month ago

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    I’m going to check this book out..even tho i go by half of these rules.

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