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=**January 28, 2007**= =**Unhappy Meals**= =**By MICHAEL POLLAN**= //Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.//

Nine Points Summaries
1. Only eat traditional foods that you know that someone three generations ago would recognize as food, as opposed to eating the new-age foods that have been invented recently. 2. Stay away from processed foods that claim to be healthy and have extra health add-ins because they are over processed. Foods such as these have been known to claim to be healthy but actually have detrimental effects that are discovered later. 3. Avoid foods with ingredients you are unfamiliar with or foods that have more than five ingredients. 4. Simply, stray away from getting any of your food from the supermarket. 5. Be smart enough to pay more money for better and healthier food. Also, simply eating less and having the self-control to reduce your portions. 6. Your diet should be mostly vegetarian because it is undebatable that greens are good for you. "Eat plants. Mostly leaves." 7. Base your diet off of a cultural diet where the culture has lived for a long time. 8. Make your diet a culture. You do this by growing and cooking as much of your own food as possible. 9.Always try to add new spices and nutrients to your diet. Make your diet more complex, constantly. "Eat like an omnivore."

What does: "Eat food. Not too much."?

 * It is very important obviously just to eat food. However, as Americans we are known for eating too much and too much of the wrong kind of foods. To have a great diet we have to eat what is considered "real food," as opposed to eating processed foods. He has written four books and is a contributor to the New York Times. He attended Bennington College, got his masters at Cumberland University (New York City), and also studied at Oxford University. He writes lots of scientific inspired literature and has received multiple awards of recognition for his work.

Who is Michael Pollan?
Michael Pollan was born on February 6th, 1995 and is a professor at the University of California at Berkley.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Pollan//