Food Rules

I went to the library to check out Michael Pollan's book, The Omnivore's Dilemna, but since it was checked out, I came home with Food Rules instead. Pollan breaks down the increasingly complicated question of what we should eat to seven simple words:

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

Some of my favorite rules:

•  Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce.
• Shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle.
• If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.
• Eat your colors.
• Don't eat breakfast cereals that the change the color of the milk.
• Have a glass of wine with dinner.
• "Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dinner like a pauper."
• Cook.