Anecdotes, science and the millennial wisdom merge in Food Rules. Throughout the practical manual, he supports this potentially for many of us life-changing dietary advices for a better health, more in sync with our environment, and giving us more pleasure from food. Mostly Plants.” proves to spot it point blanc. In Food Rules, Pollan pooled the results of his previous food-centric publications, consulted medical doctors, and comments of the readers of the New York Times blog by Tara Parker-Pope into a handy set of rules that will not harm, and more likely significantly improve yours and your family’s dietary habits. Repeated by many of the internationally acclaimed experts on conferences, seminars, popular Tv programs, on health blogs, the author’s poignant advise to “Eat Food. Indeed, how can we be sure that the findings in animal studies work on humans or how can you subject your volunteer sample to consume only one nutrient and live the exactly same lifestyle while having the same genetic profile? You cannot, and like with medicine’s side effects, some nutrients and edible substances can click with one individual while cause a havoc in the body of another. But he does not make conclusions because like his fellow authors and some of the most respected nutrition experts he had conversations with ( Marion Nestle, …) prior to the publication, he is aware of the nutritional science being a nascent field yielding mutually disqualifying research findings. Whether it is the calming, relaxing effect of the tipple, or any magic nutrient such as possibly the resveratrol in red wine, he ponders. Most of us will benefit from his advices, not just these like me who “have a glass of wine with dinner”, which Pollan defends through “considerable scientific evidence” since “alcohol of any kind appears to reduce the risk of heart disease”. You manage to read it easily within a day, in a span of a long-haul flight or take it a slice by slice as a memorable treat, because of the one small page print of each point. In this pea-hued pocket book titled Food Rules, Pollan simplifies his by science backed findings that he published in his previous, much broader books, into 64 bold yet plain rules that can serve as “an eater’s manual”. Such as “Avoid foods you see advertised on television”.
Often, the author’s broad, years spanning research does not yield revolutionary conclusions, yet it confirms what a common sense would whisper to our caffeinated and by sugar fidgeting minds. His books have been globally well accepted by readers enjoying his abbreviated and clear writing style. His previous books In Defence of Food and The Omnivore’s Dilemma won the coveted James Beard Award. The best-selling american author and food journalist Michael Pollan is the most known critic of our food system and of the modern Western diet.
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