Michael Pollan asks us to “eat food, not too much, mostly plants” and lays out a few simple rules to complement this adage. Ask your students to create their own rules for eating that preserve their health and the health of the planet.
| Words to Eat By |
| Don't eat anything your great-great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. |
| Avoid even those food products that come bearing health claims. |
| Especially avoid food products containing ingredients that are a) unfamiliar, b) unpronounceable c) more than five in number—or that contain high-fructose corn syrup. |
| Eat mostly plants, especially leaves. |
| You are what you eat eats too. |
| Eat more like the French. Or the Italians. Or the Japanese. Or the Indians. Or the Greeks. |
| Do all your eating at a table. |
| Don't get your fuel from the same place your car does. |
| Eat slowly. |
From Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food, New York, Penguin, 2008.
