Search - Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

A must read for every American! Easy at a glance guide at what to and what NOT to put in your mouth! This book is written in a way that will reach anyone who picks it up and reads it.

This book would be a great way of sharing with friends and family without inundating them with too much information.

Practical. 64 concise rules with short explanation when necessary. No new material here, instead, a summarization of his past work. More for the eater in all of us than the intellectual.

I read this book on my kindle in about an hour. Thanks to Michael Pollan for creating something simple, down to earth, and to the point. I love all of the adages and "grandma" sayings like, "The whiter the bread, the sooner you'll be dead." In a nutshell, if it can't be found in nature or you can't make it yourself at home, DON'T EAT IT!

The book is not preachy or judgmental, but gives common sense guidelines for healthy eating that will lead to optimal health and disease prevention.

Now, if we can just get more people in higher places to read and heed this advice! For example, the public school system who thinks that ketchup is a vegetable, or that chocolate with HFCS is a good idea for children.

Concise, quick read. The book is not a detailed reference book, rather a point by point manual for healthy eating. I really enjoyed picking it up for a few facts at a time.

Nothing new here but the presentation is different. Simple rules to eat by. Something like this might be helpful in our schools since it's a little more direct than the food pyramid.