Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
Food Rules: An Eater's Manual By Michael Pollan Genre: Nonfiction / Health / Nutrition / Food Writing Publication Year: 2008 My Rating: ★★★★½ (4.5/5) Spoiler Preference: Spoiler-Free The Wisdom of Simplicity in an Age of Nutritional Noise Few areas of modern life are as overcrowded with advice as nutrition. On any given day, we are told to avoid carbohydrates, embrace carbohydrates, fear fat, celebrate fat, count calories, ignore calories, eat like our ancestors, eat like Mediterranean villagers, eat for our blood type, eat for longevity, or eat according to the latest social media trend. Amid this endless stream of contradictory guidance, Michael Pollan's Food Rules offers something that feels almost radical: simplicity. This is not a book of breakthrough scientific discoveries. It is not a comprehensive nutrition textbook. It is not a detailed dietary program complete with meal plans and recipes. Instead, Food Rules is a compact collection of practical principl...