Nutrition Books

Food Rules by Michael Pollan
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 inthe pantry 4. Avoid food products that contain high-fructose corn syrup 5. Avoid food products that have some form of sugar (or sweetener listed among) the topthree ingredients 6. Avoid food products that have more than 5 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 wordoid “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 you see advertised on television 12. Shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle 13. Eat only foods that will eventually rot14. Eat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw state or growing innature 15. Get out of the supermarket whenever you can 16. Buy your snacks at the farmers market 17. Eat only foods that have been cooked by humans 18. Don’t ingest foods made in places where everyone is required to wear a surgical cap 19. If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don’t. 20. It’s not food if it arrived through the window of your car 21. It’s not food if it’s called by the same name in every language (Think Big Mac, Cheetos or Pringles) 22. Eat mostly plants, especially leaves 23. Treat meat as a flavoring or special occasion food 24. Eating what stands on one leg [mushrooms and plant foods] is better than eatingwhat stands on two legs [fowl], which is better than eating what stands on four legs[cows, pigs and other mammals]. 25. Eat your colors 26. Drink the spinach water 27. Eat animals that have themselves eaten well 28. If you have space, buy a freezer 29. Eat like an omnivore 30. Eat well-grown food from healthy soil 31. Eat wild foods when you can 32. Don’t overlook the oily little fishes 33. Eat some foods that have been predigested by bacterial or fungi 34. Sweeten and salt your food yourself
 * 1. Eat food