Eat Food. Not too much. Mostly Plants.

The January 28 New York Times Sunday Magazine ran an essay by food writer Michael Pollan entitled "Unhappy Meals".

He starts this 12-pager with this advice, which is also his conclusion: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." Here is an excerpt from page 10: "Medicine is learning how to keep alive the people whom the Western diet is making sick. It's gotten good at extending the lives of people with heart disease, and now it's working on obesity and diabetes. Capitalism is itself marvelously adaptive, able to turn the problems it creates into lucrative business opportunities: diet pills, heart-bypass operations, insulin pumps, bariatric surgery. But while fast food may be good business for the health-care industry, surely the cost to society - estimated at more than $200 billion a year in diet-related health-care costs-is unsustainable."

An interesting article for anyone interested in scientific information about food. You can access the whole article here: http://tinyurl.com/3xmgla