Health Quotes by Michael Pollan

High-quality food is better for your health.

— Michael Pollan

“AVOID FOOD PRODUCTS THAT MAKE HEALTH CLAIMS.”

— Michael Pollan

“But don’t take the silence of the yams as a sign that they have nothing valuable to say about health.”

— Michael Pollan

Avoid food products that make health claims. at meals and eat them only at tables. And no, a desk is not a…

— Michael Pollan

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

“Don’t take the silence of the yams as a sign they have nothing valuable to say about your health.”

— Michael Pollan

“Polyface is proof that people can sometimes do more for the health of a place by cultivating it rather than by leaving…

— Michael Pollan

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

For a product to carry a health claim on its package, it must first have a package, so right off the bat…

— Michael Pollan

If people eat healthy food, they will save enough to compensate for the food price being healthier and spending less on healthcare.

— Michael Pollan

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

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

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

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

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

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

We have food deserts in our cities. We know that the distance you live from a supplier of fresh produce is one…

— Michael Pollan

The almighty and everywhere present power of God; whereby, as it were by his hand, he upholds and governs heaven, earth, and…

— Michael Pollan

Is it just a coincidence that as the portion of our income spent on food has declined, spending on health care has…

— Michael Pollan

The other way that you democratize the food movement is through the public school system. If you can pay enough for the…

— Michael Pollan

“According to the surgeon general, obesity today is officially an epidemic; it is arguably the most pressing public health problem we face,…

— Michael Pollan

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

“An act as quotidian and practical as making your own sauerkraut represents nothing less than a way of engaging with the world.…

— Michael Pollan

“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

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

“In the debate over the use of antibiotics in agriculture, a distinction is usually made between their clinical and nonclinical uses. Public…

— Michael Pollan

“Anthropocentric as [the gardener] may be, he recognizes that he is dependent for his health and survival on many other forms of…

— Michael Pollan

“Eating in our time has gotten complicated — needlessly so, in my opinion. I will get to the “needlessly” part in a…

— Michael Pollan

“According to the surgeon general, obesity today is officially an epidemic; it is arguably the most pressing public health problem we face,…

— Michael Pollan

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

I think the most important thing we can teach our kids for their long-term health and happiness is how to cook.

— Michael Pollan

Even people who like the kind of food on offer, are coming to recognize that eating from this food chain is not…

— Michael Pollan

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

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

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

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

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

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

Those of us who care about food and where it comes from will miss both Obama and Michelle. Even though Obama failed…

— Michael Pollan

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