Food Rules: An Eater's Manual by Michael Pollan

by Elizabeth, Healthy Eating Made Easy

You'll love the simplicity of this book, and if you stick to the rules Michael Pollan lays down, you can't help but have a healthy diet.

Pollan's earlier books were rather weightier volumes, packed full of the science to back up his arguments, but a somewhat hefty read, especially if you just wanted to be told what to eat for dinner.

In Food Rules he distils the contents of earlier books into a series of simple and memorable one-liners - 'Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food', 'Avoid food products that make health claims', 'If it came from a plant, eat it; if it came from a plant, don't', 'Eat well-grown food from healthy soil', 'Eat when you are hungry, not when you are bored', 'Stop eating before you're full'...

Bear these rules in mind whenever you plan a meal or sit down to eat and you'll find you're consuming fresh, simple foods in suitable quantities without having to agonise over what to choose, what to avoid. Simple the food rules may be, but they are rules for a healthy diet and a healthy life.