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January 31, 2010
Michael Pollan's 10 Food Rules to take to the market
The author's rules of thumb for those who can't be bothered to read his articles or books.
1. Don't buy anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.
2. Avoid products with ingredients that cannot be found in an ordinary pantry.
3. Don't buy anything that lists sugar in its first three ingredients.
4. Shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay away from the middle.
5. If it came from a plant, buy it. If it was made in a plant, pass it by.
6. If it says lite, low-fat, or non-fat on the package, put it down.
7. Avoid food that is pretending to be something it is not.
8. Foods making health claims on the package are not foods you want to buy.
9. Avoid food that is advertised on television.
10. Get out of the supermarket. Look to farmer's markets.
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Lite, low-fat, or non-fat should be avoided because those foods are likely highly processed to achieve those low-fat, non fat, etc results. (Which brings you back to #5, if it was made in a plant, don't eat it) Foods that are naturally low in fat or non fat do not need labels that advertise these fact. Additionally, fat is not necessarily bad, contrary to popular opinion, but that is a discussion for another day.
Pollan's book is fantastic. It is more a pamphlet than a book and can be read in its entirety in a single afternoon. Hopefully more people start to think like Pollan in the decisions they make at the grocery store.
Also highly recommended is the documentary Food Inc., which gives a unique persepctive of how almost all of the food that ends up in our grocery stores is controlled by 4-5 companies whose means of maximizing profit are ethically questionable at best.
Posted by: Josh | Jan 31, 2010 1:47:51 PM
Makes sense, but I don't understand the rationale for number 6: If it says lite, low-fat, or non-fat on the package, put it down.
Posted by: Paul Biba | Jan 31, 2010 11:02:11 AM
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