Mostly plants.” Pollan bemoans the fact that many people rely on “experts” to know what to eat when, really, there are just two major facts. The book is based on his mantra: “Eat food. Pollan, author of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” and a professor at UC Berkeley, makes some of the advice clever: “If it came from a plant, eat it if it was made in a plant, don’t.” And it is really simple, with many of the rules along the lines of things many people know if they stop to think about it. Those and 61 other notions make up the influential author’s new book, “Food Rules” (Penguin, $11 paperback), meant to be a simple guide to eating, something anyone can use without reading through a lot of science and nutrition research. Or maybe more like that little angel that sits on one shoulder: “Avoid food products that contain high fructose corn syrup.” (Not, he says, because it’s less healthful than sugar, but because it’s a sign of a highly processed product.) Michael Pollan is sounding suspiciously like my mother: “Eat when you are hungry, not when you are bored.” And: “Do all your eating at a table.” 64 Rules for Eating Right from Michael Pollan By Mary MacVean
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