Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
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Food Rules: An Eater's Manual is a 2009 book by Michael Pollan
. It offers 64 rules on eating based on his previous book In Defense of Food
in three sections: Eat food, mostly plants, not too much. The book attributes the "diseases of affluence", to the so-called "Western Diet" of processed meats and food products, and offers its rules as a remedy to the problem.
Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan is an American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. A 2006 New York Times book review describes him as a "liberal foodie intellectual."...
. It offers 64 rules on eating based on his previous book In Defense of Food
In Defense of Food
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto is a 2008 book by journalist and activist Michael Pollan. It was number one on the New York Times Non-Fiction Best Seller List for six weeks. The book grew out of Pollan's 2007 essay Unhappy Meals published in the New York Times Magazine...
in three sections: Eat food, mostly plants, not too much. The book attributes the "diseases of affluence", to the so-called "Western Diet" of processed meats and food products, and offers its rules as a remedy to the problem.
See also
- Food Rules! The Stuff You Munch, Its Crunch, Its Punch, and Why You Sometimes Lose Your LunchFood Rules! The Stuff You Munch, Its Crunch, Its Punch, and Why You Sometimes Lose Your LunchFood Rules! The Stuff You Munch, Its Crunch, Its Punch, and Why You Sometimes Lose Your Lunch is a 2001 book by Bill Haduch, published by Dutton. It explains food and nutrition at the middle-school level, and was named to Booklist's Top Ten Youth Science Books of 2001....
External links
- Official website - Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
- Tara Parker-Pope. Michael Pollan Offers 64 Ways to Eat Food. The New York TimesThe New York TimesThe New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
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