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Helpful Rules(Rating: 5)
I checked this book out after watching Food, Inc. (Pollan co-starred, which probably changed my life, no joke). These rules were helpful toward making the transition into healthier eating. It is a quick read with easy enough rules to follow. Watch Food, Inc. and you will have no problem following these rules.

Michael Pollan(Rating: 5)
Another genius book by Michael Pollan. Simple and easy to read, a great starter "foodie" book.

Simplest thing you can do to eat right!(Rating: 5)
Originally saw this author on "The Colbert Report" discussing the book. Gives you the absolute simplest guidelines from the eons of time to eat healthier and simpler. Forget counting calories and start following age old rules and adages.

Simple yet PERFECT(Rating: 5)
This book is a giveaway item I give to all my clients within the first month of us meeting. I'm a certified Health Coach and I love this book! It truly is a perfect, simple read.

Thank you!

rules of the game(Rating: 4)
Pollan is a serious, focused writer, highly respected for his well researched books on food and the food industry. Anyone interested in the food chain and how the food industry has influenced our health and eating over the past century would be intrigued with Pollan's two seminal books on the subject: The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food. But those books are hefty and time consuming (though fascinating) tomes. If like me, you don't always have the unlimited time you'd like to curl up with a book, I would suggest the pared down but no less important version of Pollan's ideas, succinctly and often humorously explained in Food Rules.


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

"Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third grader cannot pronounce."

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


These pithy, amusing caveats make up the bulk of this slender volume. The message is simple and undeniable. As consumers of the typical "Western diet", Americans eat more "foodlike products" than food. That is, we eat food or food like substances that have been processed and prepped and presented to us in ways that make us crave them, crash after eating them, and then hurry to cram more of them into our gaping mouths. The result is an epidemic of obesity in the United States and other parts of the Western world, along with all of the accompanying problems such as heart disease, stroke, and diabetes.

High fructose corn syrup, partially hydrogenated oil, Xantham gum. . . who the heck really wants to eat them? Certainly not my great grandmother! Yet processed foods containing these products and countless others now make up the lion's share of the Western diet, with predictable yet deplorable results.

Does this mean that Pollan would have us eat rabbit food, consisting of a few pieces of lettuce and a scrap of carrot? Not at all! Instead, everything, Pollan says, about eating well is contained in the following 7 words: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." By food he pretty much means all food, including meat, dairy, fish, vegetables, fruits, fats, and pretty much any combination thereof, so long as it is fresh as possible, minimally processed, not eaten to excess, and eaten mindfully.