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“As grandmothers used to say, ‘Better to pay the grocer than the doctor” (Food Rules Quotes)
Michael Pollan
Food Rules
“Be the kind of person who takes supplements—then skip the supplements.”
Michael Pollan
Food Rules
“Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.”
Michael Pollan
Food Rules
“Don’t take the silence of the yams as a sign they have nothing valuable to say about your health.”
Michael Pollan
Food Rules
“Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself.”
Michael Pollan
Food Rules
“Human beings ate well and kept themselves healthy for millennia before nutritional science came along to tell us how to do it; it is entirely possible to eat healthily without knowing what an anti-oxidant is.”
Michael Pollan
Food Rules
“In borrowing from a food culture, pay attention to how a culture eats as well as to what it eats.”
Michael Pollan
Food Rules
“In many cases science has confirmed what culture has long known”
Michael Pollan
Food Rules
“Not everyone can afford to eat well in America, which is a literal shame, but most of us can: Americans spend less than 10 percent of their income on food, less than the citizens of any other nation.”
Michael Pollan
Food Rules
“Populations eating a remarkably wide range of traditional diets generally don’t suffer from these chronic diseases.” (Food Rules Quotes)
Michael Pollan
Food Rules
“Real food is alive and there for it should eventually die.”
Michael Pollan
Food Rules
“The healthiest food in the supermarket – the fresh produce- doesn’t boast about its healthfulness, because the growers don’t have budget or packaging. Don’t take the silence of the yams as a sign they have nothing valuable to say about your health.”
Michael Pollan
Food Rules
“Traditional diets are more than the sum of their food parts.”
Michael Pollan
Food Rules
“Two of the most nutritious plants in the world —lamb’s quarters and purslane—are weeds, and some of the healthiest traditional diets, like the Mediterranean, make frequent use of wild greens.”
Michael Pollan
Food Rules
“What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!”
Michael Pollan
Food Rules
