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
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
Of course it's also a lot easier to slap a health claim on a box of sugary cereal than on a potato… — 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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
It's more important that you eat vegetables, even if they are conventional -- I'm talking about for your health -- then it… — 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
“When we mistake what we can know for all there is to know, a healthy appreciation of one’s ignorance in the face… — 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
Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country, but not carrots. While the surgeon general is raising alarms over the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Don't eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. There are a great many food-like items in the supermarket your ancestors… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
One of the problems is that the US government supports unhealthy food and does very little to support healthy food. I mean,… — 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
“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
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
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
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
“The more you process any food, the more profitable it becomes. The healthcare industry makes more money treating chronic diseases (which account… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“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
“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
