The Healthiest Diet: Food.

Unhappy Meals

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

[...] A little meat won’t kill you, though it’s better approached as a side dish than as a main. And you’re much better off eating whole fresh foods than processed food products. That’s what I mean by the recommendation to eat ‘food.’ Once, food was all you could eat, but today there are lots of other edible foodlike substances in the supermarket. These novel products of food science often come in packages festooned with health claims, which brings me to a related rule of thumb: if you’re concerned about your health, you should probably avoid food products that make health claims. Why? Because a health claim on a food product is a good indication that it’s not really food, and food is what you want to eat.

– Michael Pollan, NY Times, January 28th, 2007

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  1. It’s common sense really isn’t it?

    However, i don’t have any of that. I know this because i’m fat! lol


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