Michael Pollan Talks Food Rules with Jon Stewart
It seems like just yesterday that Michael Pollan was out pushing his book In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto (it was actually 2008 – where did the time go?). But Pollan, renowned professor, journalist and author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, has yet another food-related book on the shelves, and he took to ‘The Daily Show’ to discuss it with Jon Stewart on Monday night.
Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual offers 64 tools for eating well, including this gem: “avoid edible foodlike substances.”
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On The Huffington Post yesterday, Pollan wrote about his inspiration for writing the book: the way that doctors responded to his previous tome, In Defense of Food. Pollan says that doctors requested some simple, easy-to-follow, foolproof rules for eating wisely.
“So I decided to take the doctors up on the challenge. I set out to collect and formulate some straightforward, memorable, everyday rules for eating, a set of personal policies that would, taken together or even separately, nudge people onto a healthier and happier path. I solicited rules from doctors, scientist, chefs, and readers, and then wrote a bunch myself, trying to boil down into everyday language what we really know about healthy eating. And while most of the rules are backed by science, they are not framed in the vocabulary of science but rather culture — a source of wisdom about eating that turns out to have as much, if not more, to teach us than nutritional science does.”
Read more at The Huffington Post, or grab a copy of the book at Amazon.com.
Link The Huffington Post
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