“Don’t take the silence of the yams as a sign they have nothing valuable to say about your health.” — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Polyface is proof that people can sometimes do more for the health of a place by cultivating it rather than by leaving… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Avoid food products that make health claims. at meals and eat them only at tables. And no, a desk is not a… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. Don't eat anything with more than five ingredients, or ingredients you can't pronounce. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“But don’t take the silence of the yams as a sign that they have nothing valuable to say about health.” — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It's really important for your health, because you will never use as much salt and fat and sugar as a corporation will… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Cooking might be the most important factor in fixing our public health crisis. It's the single most important thing you can do… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
A growing body of research suggests that many of the health problems associated with eating beef are really problems with corn-fed beef. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The almighty and everywhere present power of God; whereby, as it were by his hand, he upholds and governs heaven, earth, and… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Human health should now be thought of as a collective property of the human-associate d microbiota, as one group of researchers recently… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The longer I've looked at these questions, of the American diet and the public health crisis that we face because of that… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Those of us who care about food and where it comes from will miss both Obama and Michelle. Even though Obama failed… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I think that the American diet is a very large part of the reason we're spending 2.3 trillion dollar per year on… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
After writing 'The Omnivore's Dilemma,' I wanted to write a book that got past the choir, that got to people who didn't… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The two things are synergistic, the health care crisis and the food crisis. Right now, to a large extent, the food industry's… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We have food deserts in our cities. We know that the distance you live from a supplier of fresh produce is one… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“An act as quotidian and practical as making your own sauerkraut represents nothing less than a way of engaging with the world.… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Okay, but what about microbial disease? “To declare war on ninety-nine percent of bacteria when less than one percent of them threaten… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Organic Oreos are not a health food. When Coca-Cola begins selling organic Coke, as it surely will, the company will have struck… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“According to the surgeon general, obesity today is officially an epidemic; it is arguably the most pressing public health problem we face,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The other way that you democratize the food movement is through the public school system. If you can pay enough for the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Is it just a coincidence that as the portion of our income spent on food has declined, spending on health care has… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“When we use these words and we talk about plants having a strategy to do this or wanting this or desiring this,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Eating in our time has gotten complicated — needlessly so, in my opinion. I will get to the “needlessly” part in a… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Anthropocentric as [the gardener] may be, he recognizes that he is dependent for his health and survival on many other forms of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“According to the surgeon general, obesity today is officially an epidemic; it is arguably the most pressing public health problem we face,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Even people who like the kind of food on offer, are coming to recognize that eating from this food chain is not… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
For a product to carry a health claim on its package, it must first have a package, so right off the bat… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It's been a mystery to me and a disappointment why conversation about health care reform hasn't turned more attention to the subject… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
If people eat healthy food, they will save enough to compensate for the food price being healthier and spending less on healthcare. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing we can teach our kids for their long-term health and happiness is how to cook. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
At either end of any food chain you find a biological system-a patch of soil, a human body-and the health of one… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
While the surfeit of cheap calories that the U.S. food system has produced since the late 1970s may have taken food prices… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I've been amazed to learn all of the links between microbial health and our general health. This all started by trying to… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
If you’re concerned about your health, you should probably avoid products that make health claims. Why? Because a health claim on a… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Obesity rates are inversely correlated with the amount of time in food preparation. The more time a nation devotes to food preparation… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our mortality in their gardens -- a ruin,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
My hope is that if people have the knowledge, and if they actually see where their food comes from and have access to the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
The problem is that we let special-occasion food become everyday food. That goes for soda and french fries. — Michael Pollan Copy Share
Every peasant cuisine has incredible ingenious tricks for getting a lot of nutrition out of a small amount of ingredients. There are people who… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
“In ancient Greece, the word for “cook,” “butcher,” and “priest” was the same—mageiros—and the word shares an etymological root with “magic.” — Michael Pollan Copy Share
In the end I'm still a writer. I'm still a journalist, and my first responsibility is to my readers. That's where I have to… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
“The bubble logic driving tulipomania has since acquired a name: “the greater fool theory.” Although by any conventional measure it is folly to pay… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
“Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most afflicts the gardener.” — Michael Pollan Copy Share
Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no small measure… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
Eat with consciousness. When you eat with consciousness, and you know what you're eating, and you eat it in full appreciation of what it… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
“...whenever I hear people say clean food is expensive, I tell them it's actually the cheapest food you can buy. That always gets their… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
“Imagine if we had a food system that actually produced wholesome food. Imagine if it produced that food in a way that restored the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
![“Anthropocentric as [the gardener] may be, he recognizes that he is dependent for his health and survival on many other forms of life, so he is careful to take their interests into account in whatever he does. He is in fact a wilderness advocate of a certain kind. It is when he respects and…” quote by Michael Pollan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/74b/michael-pollan-408_garden_anthropocentric-as-the-gardener-may-be-h_3049569.jpg)
