Michael Pollan, author of the Omnivore's Dilemma, wrote Unhappy Meals in the New York Times Magazine that begins with the shortest, pithiest and best advice on eating you will ever get.
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
He expands on this advice for 3000 words
More tidbits:
And you’re much better off eating whole fresh foods than processed food products. ....Don’t eat anything your great-great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.
if you’re concerned about your health, you should probably avoid food products that make health claims. Why? Because a health claim on a food product is a good indication that it’s not really food, and food is what you want to eat.
Nuturionism is not nutrition, it's a religion.
No one likes to admit that his or her best efforts at understanding and solving a problem have actually made the problem worse, but that’s exactly what has happened in the case of nutritionism. Scientists operating with the best of intentions, using the best tools at their disposal, have taught us to look at food in a way that has diminished our pleasure in eating it while doing little or nothing to improve our health.
Posted by Jill Fallon at January 30, 2007 8:36 PM | Permalink