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
Michael Pollan quotes about
profound mind engagement
... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.
snacks ideas people
People who snack sometimes sometimes eat kind of thoughtlessly and end up eating a lot more. But in principle, it's a really good idea if you can exert the kind of discipline needed.
onions chopping
When chopping onions, just chop onions.
body-weight brain half
Wrangham cites several studies indicating that in fact humans don't do well on raw food: they can't maintain their body weight, and half of the women on a raw-food regimen stop menstruating. Devotees of raw food rely heavily on juicers and blenders, because otherwise they would have to spend as much time chewing as the chimps do. It is difficult, if not impossible, to extract sufficient energy from unprocessed plant matter to power a body with such a big, hungry brain.
corn-syrup soft-drinks soda
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft drink in the supermarket is to have some corn with your corn. Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the fruit drinks sold in the supermarket have been sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup.
kind supplements persons
Be the kind of person who takes supplements - then skip the supplements.
lines activist journalist
You have to draw lines between being a journalist and an activist.
humanity sun eating
Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum.
unions tests campaigns
What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionism—its supreme test and, as now is coming clear, its most abject failure.
lines today eating
The corporatization of something as basic and intimate as eating is, for many of us today, a good place to draw the line.
rotting real-food incapable
Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.
corn-syrup numbers ingredients
Avoid food products containing ingredients that are A) unfamiliar B) unpronounceable C) more than five in number or that include D) high-fructose corn syrup
subsidies poverty environment
The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.
couple storytelling
The only one I have any trust in is storytelling - there's a couple I have a lot of trust in.