Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

by Michael Pollan

Food Rules: An Eater's Manual: Summary


Michael Pollan’s Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual is a collection of principles and guidelines on which consumers can rely to buy healthful food. In his earlier books, The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food, Pollan describes how the American diet and its industrial structure of producing food is actually making Americans unhealthy. America is home to extremely high levels of obesity, type II diabetes, and heart disease. For readers left...

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