I'm giving a talk on healthy eating and doing a cooking demo for a group of women later this summer. In preparation, I've added a couple of foodie books to my summer stack. Yesterday, I breezed through this one:
This very quick read gives Pollan's 64 "rules" that help us answer the question, "What should I eat?"
The basic answer is, in Pollan's words, "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
He expands this answer with his rules which though commonsense, get lost in our day of nutritional information overload, conflicting health claims, fast food, and the decline of sit-down-at-the-table-and-enjoy-a-meal-with-your-family-and-friends eating.
Here are a few of my favorites:
#2 Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.
#13 Eat only foods that will eventually rot.
#18 Don't eat foods made in places where everyone is required to wear a surgical cap.
My favorite one, #25 Eat your colors
with an exception, #36 Don't eat breakfast cereals that change the color of the milk.
and finally,
#51 Spend as much time enjoying the meal as it took to prepare it.
Good advice. Simple guidelines. Pretty much the way we eat around here.
This very quick read gives Pollan's 64 "rules" that help us answer the question, "What should I eat?"
The basic answer is, in Pollan's words, "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
He expands this answer with his rules which though commonsense, get lost in our day of nutritional information overload, conflicting health claims, fast food, and the decline of sit-down-at-the-table-and-enjoy-a-meal-with-your-family-and-friends eating.
Here are a few of my favorites:
#2 Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.
#13 Eat only foods that will eventually rot.
#18 Don't eat foods made in places where everyone is required to wear a surgical cap.
My favorite one, #25 Eat your colors
with an exception, #36 Don't eat breakfast cereals that change the color of the milk.
and finally,
#51 Spend as much time enjoying the meal as it took to prepare it.
Good advice. Simple guidelines. Pretty much the way we eat around here.
3 comments:
is the cooking talk open to folks from Concord, say, maybe me??
Andrea,
It's up in Durham at my friend, Jenn's church. Maybe we'll do one down here sometime!
Count me in if you ever speak locally :).
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