Our Take:

Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, has taken all of his knowledge, years of research, and helpful advice and packaged it into some simple rules to help you eat better. He tells you which oils and grains are best and which to avoid. He breaks this slim paperback down into three sections: 1. What should I eat. 2. What kind of food should I eat (mostly vegetables and plants), and 3. How should I eat (which focuses on portions and timing). Pollan is America’s trusted resource and consumer advocate on food-related issues. Some of our favorite rules: ‘Don’t eat anything your grandmother would recognize as food (think Pringles),’ and ‘Don’t buy food where you buy gasoline’.

A Few God Lines:

As a journalist, I had a deeply unsettling moment when, after spending a couple of years researching nutrition for my last book, In Defense of Food, I realized that the answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated question of what we should eat wasn’t so complicated after all, and in fact could be boiled down to just seven words: Eat food, not too much, mostly plants. In this short, radically pared down book, I unpack those seven words of advice into a comprehensive set of rules, or personal policies, designed to help you eat real food in moderation and, by doing so, substantially get off the (dangerously unhealthy) Western diet.