Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

by Michael Pollan

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.

If you wouldn’t cook with them yourself, why let others use these ingredients to cook for you?

But it may be that deceiving the brain with the reward of sweetness stimulates a craving for even more sweetness.

For a product to carry a health claim on its package, it must first have a package, so right off the bat it’s more likely to be a processed rather than a whole food.