Food Rules
An Eater's Manual
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4.4 • 26 Ratings
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much.
Using those seven words as his guide, Michael Pollan offers this indispensable handbook for anyone concerned about health and food. Simple, sensible and easy to use, Food Rules is a set of memorable adages or 'personal policies' for eating wisely, gathered from a wide variety of sources: mothers, grandmothers, nutritionists, anthropologists and ancient cultures among them.
Whether at the supermarket, a restaurant or an all-you-can-eat buffet, this handy, pocket-size resource is the perfect manual for anyone who would like to become more mindful of the food we eat.
For the past twenty years, Michael Pollan has been writing about the places where the human and natural worlds intersect: food, agriculture, gardens, drugs, and architecture. The Omnivore's Dilemma, about the ethics and ecology of eating, was named one of the ten best books of 2006 by the New York Times and the Washington Post. He is also the author of The Botany of Desire, A Place of My Own and Second Nature and, most recently, In Defence of Food.
Customer Reviews
Refreshingly pragmatic
Lots of diets are too extreme and impossible to maintain over time (the latter being the crucial element of any good diet). They also focus too much on short term weight loss, ignoring what is actually good for you!
This book will not change my life but it will certainly help me pick the right food.
Food Rules
Seems like blinding glimpses of the obvious ... But well worth a glimpse !
Leaflet not book
The content was good but I felt short-changed by this extremely short 'book'. Each food rule is spaced apart by a couple of pages and some of the rules are the same rule phrased differently. It felt 'padded out' which is surprising considering how brief this book is. Should be £2 not £5.