Here’s a useful (and amusing) list of Food Rules originally published by Michael Pollen. These are words of wisdom and guidance for following a healthy, well-balanced diet.
As we find new examples and relevant information about these Food Rules, we’ll be adding the links to this list in the future:
1. Eat food
Explanation: Avoid a diet of processed “edible food-like substances” that are commonly mislabeled as “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 food products that have some form of sugar (or sweetener listed among) the top three ingredients
Pollan says: “Labels list ingredients by weight and any product that has more sugar than other ingredients has too much sugar.” (For an exception to this rule, follow Pollan’s “treat treats as treats” philosophy.)
6. Avoid food products that have more than 5 ingredients
7. Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third‐grader cannot pronounce
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