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
american-educator european might power
Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north.
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.
humanity sun eating
Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum.
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.
meals enjoy
Spend as much time enjoying the meal as it took to prepare it
ingredients thirds containing
Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce.
natural feels likelihood
Any food product that feels compelled to tell you it’s natural in all likelihood is not.
american-educator drive farmers growing organic price risk selling start
When Wal-Mart and McDonald's start selling organic food, it will drive down the price to farmers and risk growing a new monoculture.