Michael Pollan Quotes

Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we eat well.

If you can't pronounce it, you shouldn't be eating it.

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy.

Cheap food is an illusion. There is no such thing as cheap food. The real cost of the food is paid somewhere. And if it isn't paid at the cash register, it's charged to the environment or to the public purse in the form of subsidies. And it's charged to your health.

If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.

Better to pay the grocer than the doctor.

People forget that eating represents their most profound engagement with the natural world. Through agriculture is how we change the world, more than anything else we do.

A vegan in a Hummer has a lighter carbon footprint than a beef eater in a Prius.

Eat slowly, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure.

Okinawa, one of the longest-lived and healthiest populations in the world, practice a principle they call hara hachi bu: Eat until you are 80 percent full.

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

Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.

The wonderful thing about food is you get three votes a day. Every one of them has the potential to change the world.

Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being.

Don't get your fuel from the same place your car does

I think that the American diet is a very large part of the reason we're spending 2.3 trillion dollar per year on health care in this country. 75% of that money goes to treat chronic diseases, preventable chronic diseases, most of those are linked to diet.

If you’re concerned about your health, you should probably avoid products that make health claims. Why? Because a health claim on a food product is a strong indication it’s not really food, and food is what you want to eat

There is nothing wrong with special occasion foods, as long as every day is not a special occasion.

The two things are synergistic, the health care crisis and the food crisis. Right now, to a large extent, the food industry's biggest product is patients for the health care industry and we have to break that.

It's not food if it arrived through the window of your car.

Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself.

For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love?

Don't eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. There are a great many food-like items in the supermarket your ancestors wouldn't recognize as food.. stay away from these

Most important thing about your diet is who cooks it, a human or a corporation.

You are what what you eat eats.