![]() Obesity and heart disease are conditions we’ve mostly eaten ourselves into and with some guidelines and self-discipline, we might be able to reverse these epidemics. ![]() After all, that colloquial wisdom kept the human race alive for thousands of years.īut why do we need rules to eat by? Because we’ve clearly lost our sense of what constitutes real food. In Food Rules, Pollan suggests that instead of listening to the latest, always-changing nutritional advice from government agencies and web MD’s, we might be better off listening to the food wisdom passed down to us through the generations. The 2011 edition features a new introduction and a handful of additional rules, some of which were provided by readers, and beautiful illustrations by renowned artist Maira Kalman. Michael Pollan released the first edition of Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual in 2009 and it became a bestseller, initiating a national dialogue about America’s notoriously poor food choices. ![]() Author: Michael Pollan with illustrations by Maira Kallman ![]()
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