Reviews
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In the more than four decades that I have been reading and writing about the findings of nutritional science, I have come across nothing more intelligent, sensible and simple to follow than the 64 principles outlined in a slender, easy-to-digest new book called “Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual,” by Michael Pollan.
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The most sensible diet plan ever? We think it’s the one that Michael Pollan outlined a few years ago: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” So we’re happy that in his little new book, “Food Rules,” Pollan offers more common-sense rules for eating: 64 of them, in fact, all thought-provoking and some laugh-out-loud funny.
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Clarity and inspiration both are to be found in a small book by journalism professor and food writer Michael Pollan. His “Food Rules” are direct, amusing and encouraging. Just what some of us need when our New Year’s resolve is dissolving into excuses.
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Meant to be a simple guide to eating, something anyone can use without reading through a lot of science and nutrition research.
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“A useful and funny purse-sized manual that could easily replace all the diet books on your bookshelf.”
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It doesn’t get much easier than this. Each page has a simple rule, sometimes with a short explanation, sometimes without, that promotes Pollan’s back-to-the-basics-of-food (and-food-enjoyment) philosophy.
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His work has been updated and made youth-friendly in a new edition, “The Omnivore’s Dilemma for Kids: The Secrets Behind What You Eat.” The target audience is 8- to 12-year-olds, though it might also appeal to adult readers turned off by drier nutrition- and environment-oriented tomes.
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Originally written for adults and now adapted for teens, this “must read” tells you much of what you need to know about the foods you put into your body on a daily basis.
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Based on Pollan’s best-selling adult book of the same title, this (slightly) shortened version will appeal to thoughtful, socially responsible teens.
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Not bedtime reading, but certainly food for thought, made slightly easier to chew thanks to graphs, and drawings.
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The subject of Michael Pollan’s fine new book, “In Defense of Food,” is the technological abyss toward which humankind with its tacit consent is being driven by the industrialized American diet. Pollan’s critique of the American food industry and the plague of obesity, diabetes, coronary disease, cancer, and untimely death for which it is largely…
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With his lucid style and innovative research, Pollan deserves his reputation as one of the most respectable voices in the modern debate about food.