Pollan wants our food rules
Michael Pollan wants to know what food rules you follow.
Between 4:30 and dinnertime, if my kids want something to eat, they can eat carrots.I’d like your help gathering some rules for eating well. My premise is that culture has a lot to teach us about how to choose, prepare and eat food, and that this wisdom is worth collecting and preserving before it disappears.In recent years, we’ve deferred to the voices of science and industry when it comes to eating, yet often their advice has served us poorly, or has merely confirmed the wisdom of our grandmother after the fact. “Eat your colors,” an Australian reader’s grandmother used to tell her; now we hear the same advice from nutritionists, citing the value of including as many different phytochemicals in the diet as possible.
Michael Pollan will post the food rules on his website, and he’ll include the best ones in a collection of food rules that he’s compiling.
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I do not eat meat because animals are a very important life force weather they are mammals, reptiles, amphibians, or birds. I don't feel that it is right for one to die for my sustenance. We have so many options that there that I even question if it is for sustenance or just for pleasure in most cases. Anyways, there are many arguments about vegetarianism but I feel it's right for me.
A friend of mine had a rule with her kids that if they wanted a snack, they had to first have a piece of fruit. If they were still hungry, then they could have something else -- but the fruit usually did the trick. I tried to implement that once, but I'm not good on the follow-through. :)
