Eating Healthy By Michael Pollan

The ABC’s of Eating Healthy
Eating healthy can be an effective and beneficial way to live a long a vigorous life. Certain foods are considered the key to daily nutrition that every person needs in order to completely function throughout the day. These foods that are considered “healthy”, provides individuals with vitamins, minerals, nutrients and replenishes the necessities that the body needs to stay well. On the other hand, eating healthy foods can sometimes be a long-term obligation and be somewhat expensive. In many case, organic food is considered healthy but has been found to be somewhat more expensive than regular market food. In many instances people do not consider all aspects of

Living a healthy life includes seven important factors as Pollan pointed out. Pollan, very cleverly laid out the diagram of what people should look for when trying to begin a new healthy way of life or either change it completely. A phrase that Pollan was best known for, “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” Pollan explained this quite well for those who were unsure as to what he really was saying. He paraphrased this expression by telling people that “everything he has learned about food and health can be summed up in those seven words.” However, many are left wondering, what does he mean exactly? Michael Pollan further elaborated on the meaning of this idiom by saying that “the first two words are the most important.” When Pollan said “eat foods”, he mean’t “eat real food, such as vegetables, fruits, whole grains and even fish and meat.” He stressed to people to avoid what Pollan called “edible food-like substances”. (7 Rules for

It is entitled “Escape from the Western Diet”. In this piece of Pollan’s writing, he talks about the western diet in a broad sense. He highlights the do’s and don’t for this particular type of diet. He stated that it is “high in saturated fats, red meats, ‘empty’ carbohydrates(junk food) and low in fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, seafood and poultry”. (Escape from the Western Diet). This article still ties in greatly with Pollan’s original train of thought regarding the proper way to diet. He highly recommends to stick with vegetables and fruits and of course whole grain foods which are highest in fiber. To review, when Pollan said “Eat Food”, this simply means to separate the real food from the food-like products. “Not too much” switches to how we eat, our manners habits and the culture of how we eat our food. When Michael Pollan said “Mostly Plants”, this includes more than just fruits and vegetables. (Escape from the Western