This review is part of the Cannonball Read series. Makes “Eat food, not too much, mostly plants” sound comically reasonable.īy applying the Food Rules, I have found one truth that all diet books claim to make possible, but can’t ever seem to back up. There’s nothing more enlightening that reading straight, unvarnished stories of animals being fed “food” they were never intended to eat, dosed with antibiotics they wouldn’t need if they were raised in a proper environment and grown, then inhumanely slaughtered at rates that are off the charts. I devoured The Omnivore’s Dilemma and all of Pollan’s New York Times Magazine articles with gusto and I think letting us see what the food industrial complex is really like is pretty scary, often gross and not surprisingly, very off-putting. Can I always feed myself and my family the way I should? Not 100 percent of the time, but Food Rules does help push me in the right direction most of the time.Ĭommon sense can go a long way toward improving our lives and these short, easy to understand rules pretty much cover The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food for those of us with short attention spans. Real food is inherently nutritious if you have to add vitamins and minerals in to sell it to parents, it’s not real and it’s probably not really nutritious. population has expanded so exponentially because we don’t eat food anymore, we eat products. I have honestly come to believe that the U.S.
Yes, Pollan expects you to think about your choices and to explore and examine your food, but these days it could save, or at least extend your life considerably. It’s easy to read, but not necessarily easy to follow. Food Rules is not a diet book and has no room for hype. Diet books are written with so much in your face statistical noise to justify a premise that it’s always difficult to separate hype or junk science from truth. As a woman with myriad food issues it’s refreshing to know it’s possible to just get down to brass tacks and pretty much have a yes or no answer for just about anything I might encounter food-wise. Though short, this book is full of easy-to-digest advice about what to eat, how much to eat and when to eat it.
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