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Food Rules: An Eater's Manual |  | Author: Michael Pollan
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: First Paperback Edition
Pages: 112
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Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 014311638X
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.2
EAN: 9780143116387
ASIN: 014311638X
Publication Date: December 29, 2009
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Product Description
A pocket compendium of food wisdom-from the author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food
Michael Pollan, our nation's most trusted resource for food-related issues, offers this indispensible guide for anyone concerned about health and food. Simple, sensible, and easy to use, Food Rules is a set of memorable rules for eating wisely, many drawn from a variety of ethnic or cultural traditions. Whether at the supermarket or an all-you-can-eat-buffet, this handy, pocket-size resource is the perfect guide for anyone who would like to become more mindful of the food we eat.
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 Basic, Simple Nutrition Rules March 14, 2010
I. Isabel (new york, NY USA)
A short guideline with 60 food rules you could finish reading under half an hour. It's great for someone who's willing to make simple changes to improve their diet. However, this book is not for someone who's seeing the scientific background of Nutrition or already know the basic of a healthy diet.
 Balanced Nature March 13, 2010
Abdul-Malik (Newark)
Everyone thinks they know how to eat. It's some thing we've been doing our entire lives. In reading the book FOOD RULES by Michael Pollan, one is apt to find out that we really don't understand what we're doing. In the book, Pollan points out some simple, `common sense' rules. Things that we should intuitively know, but have been blurred by food company marketers. The book makes this point from the very first rule. The book is divided into three parts, each part consist of a series of rules.
Part one is titled, "What should I eat?" The first rule is: Eat food. Sounds almost silly, but what Pollan points out is, much of what's in today's supermarket is more like edible food substances than food. Some of these concoctions, developed by food scientist, have more ingredients than some of the medications used in chemotherapy. The second part of the book is called, "What kind of food should I eat?" (Mostly Plants). Rule 22, eat mostly plants, especially leaves. Most people in Western society know that these types of foods are good for us, but in our faced paced lives we live off of fast junk food. If it's been cooked, someone is often handing it to us out of a drive through window. Part three of the book discusses how much we should eat. Again, intuitively we know how much we should eat, but obesity is a growing epidemic, even among school age children.
All in all I give the book a rating of a five out of five stars. I do this in spite of some fundamental differences with Pollan's idea of the optimal diet. He is advocating a practically vegetarian diet. Whereas I'm a meat eating Paleolithic (Caveman) dieter. BALANCED NATURE Naturally Curing Diabetes, Anxiety and Living Longer
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good read. March 12, 2010
Robert Michael Hodges (vail, co)
it's a short read, as the last half of the book are one-page 'rules' to eatting better and helping turn our fast food nation around to where it was before diabetes and heart disease started killing our children younger than thier parents. if you like pollan and the information he supplies, check out jaime oliver on [...].
Common Sense March 12, 2010
Susan H. Mohl (Tamarac, FL)
This book was mildly interesting, although I found most of the information to be chalked up to common sense. I do not think it was worth the money.
Great, straight to the point and easy to follow March 12, 2010
L. Markle
This is a great book. Short, easy read and straight to the point. Reading Michael Pollan's Omnivore's Dilemma and In defense of food are awesome and very detailed as to exploring all the avenue's of understanding what you are eating, history of food, history of how food that is processed has evolved (or has had lack there of). He never tries to get you to eat a certain way, he just gives you all the information needed to be able to make a better educated choice about your eating habits. If anything he gives you a direction of where start researching your food. After reading both books though there is so much to take in and remember, which comes back to my point in case! this is a great refresher of all the main points that are important to supporting your efforts to eat better. After reading this I was reminded of all the reason why I read both Omnivore's Dilemma and In defense of food in the first place! I think you can probably get alot from this book if you didn't read the other two but I would highly suggest that if you like this book you read the others if you haven't done so already :)
Happy reading!
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