Pollan's Pointers

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

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

Especially avoid food products containing ingredients that are a) unfamiliar, b) unpronounceable c) more than five in number — or that contain high-fructose corn syrup.

Get out of the supermarket whenever possible. You won’t find any high-fructose corn syrup at the farmer’s market; you also won’t find food harvested long ago and far away.

Pay more, eat less.

People who eat according to the rules of a traditional food culture are generally healthier than we are.

(Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks.)

Cook. And if you can, plant a garden.

(more details here)

& other sayin's -

Don't eat egg salad from a vending machine

You don't get fat on food you pray over.

Breakfast, you eat alone. Lunch, you should share with a friend. Dinner, give to your enemy.

Don't eat anything that took more energy to ship than to grow.

Never eat anything that is pretending to be something else.

(fake butter/meat/*** - flavored)

Don't yuck someone's yum.

(another words - keep your food criticism to yourself whilst I'm eating, bitch!)

Avoid snack foods with the "OH" sound in their names:

DORITOS, FRITOS, CHEETOS, TOSTITOS etc.

It's better to pay the grocer than the doctor.

Be present to your food. Focus on what's in front of you.

(via NY Times)