The interesting thing I learned was that if you're really concerned about your health, the best decisions for your health turn out… — 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
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
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
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing… — 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“In the debate over the use of antibiotics in agriculture, a distinction is usually made between their clinical and nonclinical uses. Public… — 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
People have been dealing with health long before there was science, certainly before nutrition science. We're constantly reading about scientific studies that… — 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
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
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
“...Only the big food manufacturers have the wherewithal to secure FDA-approved health claims for their products and then trumpet them to the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We're supposed to show people how the world is, to give them the tools they need to make good decisions as citizens… — 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
“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
“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 Image
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 Image
The problem is that we let special-occasion food become everyday food. That goes for soda and french fries. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most afflicts the gardener.” — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
