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__**Answers to homework questions**__: 1. In Pollan's nine claim he says that we should all eat foods that would not be foreign to our "great great grandmothers" because food then was not processed like our foods are today. Our foods today are processed, which makes them unhealthy for us. We need to eat foods that are healthy and avoid the ones that have health claims. We also need to avoid foods that are "unfamiliar, unpronounceable, and are more than five in number". To find the foods we should eat we should all avoid supermarkets because they contain most of the food that are processed. People should buy grocerys are the farmer's markets because they have foods that aren't processed like fruits and vegetables. Pollan advises people to pay more for non-processed foods than to pay for cheaper foods located in the supermarkets. He says we need to eat more plants and such because they are less harmful to our bodies and will make us healthier. We should also eat less in general to become more like other cultures like the French or Italians because they eat according to the rules of traditional eating, rather than the way we Americans eat. It would also be good for us to cook our own meals so we avoid eating fast food. He also says that we should start eating like omnivores and add more species to our diets, rather than just new foods.

2. Michael Pollan's advice on eating can be summarized in seven words, "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." It's pretty self explanatory, but to go more in depth Pollan is saying that we should not stop eating all together, but we should eat the right kinds of food. We need to start avoiding processed foods, and focus more on eating vegetables and fruits. Even though they are expensive and can be purchased at farmer's markets, they will decrease health problems and will help people loose weight.

3. Michael Pollan was born on February 6th, 1955. He is currently a journalism professor at the University of California Berkley, where he is also the head of the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism. He writes for the New York Times Magazine and has written five books, which all relate to people's eating habits and how we should all start eating vegetables and plants. He has also written articles about the meat industry and the trends in American agriculture. Pollan has also contributed to Greater Good, a social psychology magazine published by the Greater Good Science Center at University of California, Berkeley. His article "Edible Ethics" discusses the intersection of ethical eating and social psychology.

__**Source**__: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Pollan