In Defense of Food

"Eat food, not too much, mostly plants"

Eat Food

• Don't eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.

• Avoid food products containing ingredients that are a) unfamiliar, b) unpronounceable, c) more than 5 in number, or that include d) high fructose corn syrup.

• Avoid food products that make health claims.

• Shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle.

• Get out of the supermarket whenever possible.

Mostly Plants

• Eat mostly plants, especially leaves

• You are what what you eat eats too.

• If you have the space, buy a freezer.

• Eat like an omnivore

• Eat well-grown food from healthy soils

• Eat wild foods when you can.

• Eat like the kind of person who takes supplements.

• Eat more like the French, or the Italians, or the Japanese, or the Indians, or the Greeks.

• Regard nontraditional foods with skepticism

• Don't look for a the magic bullet in the traditional diet.

• Have a glass of wine with dinner

Not too much

• Pay more, eat less.

• Eat meals.

• Do all your eating at a table (a desk is not a table)

• Don't get your fuel from the same place your car does.

• Try not to eat alone.

• Consult your gut.

• Eat slowly

• Cook and, if you can, plant a garden.