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Michael Pollan Has The Answer To Eating Healthy

Posted 12.23.2011

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Environmental and food advocate Michael Pollan has the answer to being healthy: eat food, not too much and more plants than meat. In the above vid...

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Michael Pollan Has Some Food Rules to Live By

Laura Klein | Posted 02.06.2012

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Pollan's collection of rules keeps it simple: No medical or calorie counting rules (don't people get tired of counting calories?). And my favorite rule is the super simple number 24: When you eat real food, you don't need rules.

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9 Books To Get Your Mom

Madeleine Crum | Posted 12.05.2011

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When you were too restless to sleep, she read you the same story a million times, never wavering in her theatric enthusiasm. Instead of battling the m...

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WATCH: Stephen Colbert Calls Michael Pollan The 'Big Bossy Food Nazi'

Posted 01.03.2012

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Michael Pollan appeared on The Colbert Report last night to talk about his book Food Rules, with illustrations by Maira Kalman. He brought along some ...

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The Do's And Don'ts Of Leftovers

Posted 05.21.2012

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Is your leftover pasta sauce growing fuzz in the back of the fridge? Do you still wonder if that last pizza slice is any good? You smell and think, "t...

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How To Behave In Restaurants

TIME | Posted 08.22.2011

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I can't pretend to be the most elegant of men. My manners, as you would expect of any zealot, are half feral at best....

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Pollan on Pollen

Annie Spiegelman | Posted 05.25.2011

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For me gardening is therapeutic, it's also the source of the freshest food I get to eat and it's also beautiful. To me it's more beautiful than a perennial border. The satisfaction for me is gustatory as well as aesthetic and therapeutic.

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The Case For The Post-Meal Cigarette

Gourmet Live | Posted 05.25.2011

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It goes back to the dawn of modern agriculture, yet it's never been terribly well documented. It's a widespread and common practice, accessible to eve...

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"Food Rules": A Completely Different Way To Fix The Health Care Crisis

Michael Pollan | Posted 05.25.2011

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I set out to collect and formulate some straightforward, memorable, everyday rules for eating, a set of personal policies that would, taken together or even separately, nudge people onto a healthier and happier path.

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Mother's Day: 7 Of My Favorite Books As A Mom And A Publisher (PHOTOS, POLL)

Lena Tabori | Posted 05.25.2011

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These books cover what I love as a mom and have published for Welcome Books--for mothers new and old.

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A Food Hater's Manifesto

Natalia Brzezinski | Posted 11.17.2011

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According to Pollan, the "Western diet"-- overprocessed and chemically-saturated food -- is not only making us fat, it is killing us.

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20 New Anticancer Rules

David Servan-Schreiber, M.D., Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

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Michael Pollan's recent little gem of a book Food Rules inspired me to compile my own "rules" about what I'd like every person to know about how they can help avoid cancer.

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Michelle Obama Steps Up As Health Champion

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 11.17.2011

I cheered when I learned of First Lady Michelle Obama's new initiative, Let's Move, aimed at the mounting epidemic of childhood obesity. It's a breakthrough for government to address obesity's systemic causes.

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Future Of Self Help: Mind/Body Or Mind/Butt?

Denise Brodey | Posted 05.25.2011

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I think that collective bad Karma gives authors a chance to reinvent the self-help category and steer the ship away from the schlocky "5 Steps to a Whatever Transformation You Need" we've all been buying into.

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Michael Pollan On Oprah: Let's Vote With Our Forks (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Wednesday, Oprah hosted Michael Pollan author and food expert to talk about his latest book, Food Rules, and the Documentary Food, Inc. which takes a ...

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Michael Pollan Wants You to Eat Food

Jerusha Klemperer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Some people want to be told what to eat. Ever get asked about "the Slow Food diet?" I do. Countless times I've explained that there is no slow food diet, that it's not meant to be a dogmatic philosophy.

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Michael Pollan On The Daily Show (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jon Stewart started out with a simple question Monday night for Michael Pollan, journalism professor and author of The Omnivore's Dilemma, and the new...

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Michael Pollan's 'Food Rules': Tips For Eating Healthily (VIDEO

abcnews.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Pollan, author of the popular "Omnivore's Dilemma" and more recently "In Defense of Food," has a new handbook out, "Food Rules," which is full...

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