“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
“Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.”
― Michael Pollan
“You are what what you eat eats.”
― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
“What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!”
― Michael Pollan, Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual
“If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don’t. ”
― Michael Pollan
“For a product to carry a health claim on its package, it must first have a package, so right off the bat it’s more likely to be processed rather than a whole food.”
― Michael Pollan, Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual
“There are scores of studies demonstrating that a diet rich in vegetables and fruits reduces the risk of dying from all the Western diseases; in countries where people eat a pound or more of vegetables and fruits a day, the rate of cancer is half what is in the United States.”
― Michael Pollan
If you are unfamiliar with ethno-botanist Michael Pollan from his many books, TED talks, or other writings, here’s a compilation of even more Michael Pollan quotes.
