11/10/2013

Michael Pollan's Rules for Food (the first 12, anyway)

Michael Pollan’s Food Rules

  1. Eat food.
  2. Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.
  3. Avoid food products containing ingredients that no ordinary human would keep in the pantry.
  4. Avoid food products that contain high-fructose corn syrup.
  5. Avoid foods that have some form of sugar (or sweetener) listed among the top three ingredients.
  6. Avoid food products that contain more than five ingredients.
  7. Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce.
  8. Avoid food products that make health claims.
  9. Avoid food products with the word “lite” or the terms “low-fat” or “nonfat” in their names.
  10. Avoid foods that are pretending to be something they are not.
  11. Avoid foods that you see advertised on television.
  12. Shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle.

Ooooph.


Fell right off that good trend wagon and got dragged for a bit in the road behind it.

News:

  1. Passed the Oregon bar exam. Time to job hunt!
  2. I don't seem to be able to crank out words sufficient to do NaNoWriMo anymore. I much prefer the pace of the old goals: 250 words a day, or more if I feel like it. It works for me.
  3. I'm back!
Missed doing this regularly, and I can't wait to build a chain of interesting posts.