Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
- 168
- Pages
- about 3 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Food Rules” boils Michael Pollan’s thinking on diet down to 64 short, common-sense rules, and it reads as easily as that sounds. They fall into three groups, on what to eat, which foods to favour and how much, and they argue against the processed products of the Western diet. Some readers call the book well organised and useful when shopping and eating, and some add that the rules are simpler to accept than to follow.
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About the book
Food Rules: An Eater's Manual is a 2009 book by Michael Pollan. It offers 64 rules on eating based on his previous book In Defense of Food in three sections: Eat food, mostly plants, not too much. The book attributes the "diseases of affluence", to the so-called "Western Diet" of processed meats and food products, and offers its rules as a remedy to the problem.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.7 across 150 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 51% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Rankings average of 8.0. That is how 7.8 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.2 | 15 | 10% |
| Hardcover | 7.8 | 135 | 90% |
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