After spending several years trying to answer the supposedly incredibly complicated question of how we should eat in order to be maximally healthy, I discovered the answer was shockingly simple: eat real food, not too much of it, and more plants than meat. Or, put another way, get off the modern western diet, with its abundance of processed food, refined grains and sugars, and its sore lack of vegetables, whole grains and fruit…
#11 Avoid foods you see advertised on television
#19 If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don’t
#36 Don’t eat breakfast cereals that change the color of the milk
#39 Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself
— Michael Pollan: “Food Rules”: A Completely Different Way To Fix The Health Care Crisis
