Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan is an American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth6 February 1955
CityLong Island, NY
CountryUnited States of America
civilization sick people
What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!
country years care
...There's a lot of money in the Western diet. The more you process any food, the more profitable it becomes. The healthcare industry makes more money treating chronic diseases (which account for three quarters of the $2 trillion plus we spend each year on health care in this country) than preventing them.
people healthy healthcare
If people eat healthy food, they will save enough to compensate for the food price being healthier and spending less on healthcare.
quality high-quality diets
High-quality food is better for your health.
years two people
People say they don't have time to cook, yet in the last few years we have found an extra two hours a day for the internet.
food animal community
The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.
couple storytelling
The only one I have any trust in is storytelling - there's a couple I have a lot of trust in.
government accountability regulation
[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa.
thinking vegetables oil
You may not think you eat a lot of corn and soybeans, but you do: 75 percent of the vegetable oils in your diet come from soy (representing 20 percent of your daily calories) and more than half of the sweeteners you consume come from corn (representing around 10 perecent of daily calories).
food eating-well dieting
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
fun ignorance writing
I don't like writing as an expert. I like writing as an amateur. I like writing as an idiot. It's much more fun to start in ignorance.
inspirational motivational fitness
The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it, does not seem to be one of them.
food phones two
While it is true that many people simply can't afford to pay more for food, either in money or time or both, many more of us can. After all, just in the last decade or two we've somehow found the time in the day to spend several hours on the internet and the money in the budget not only to pay for broadband service, but to cover a second phone bill and a new monthly bill for television, formerly free. For the majority of Americans, spending more for better food is less a matter of ability than priority. p.187
food healthy-eating eating
You are what what you eat eats.