Somewhere along the production line, food got complicated. We no longer eat only what we can hunt, grow or buy from markets. In his new book Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual, Michael Pollan points out that countries which eat lots of processed food, meat, added fat, sugar and refined grains “suffer from high rates of the so-called Western diseases: obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer”. Here, a taste of his rules for healthy eating.
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