Food Rules to Eat By

Straight from the pages of fresh food guru Michael Pollan's new book, Food Rules...here are a handful of simple guidelines to help you stick to your healthy eating resolutions more easily and hopefully make you laugh a little at the same time.

• Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce.
  
• Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.
• Don't ingest foods made in places where everyone is required to wear a surgical cap.
• If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.
• It's not food if it arrived through the window of your car.
• It's not food if it's called by the same name in every language. (Think Big Mac, Cheetos, or Pringles).
• Buy smaller plates and glasses.
  
• Sweeten and salt your food yourself.
• Don't eat breakfast foods that change the color of the milk.
• Stop eating before you're full.
• Eat when you are hungry, not when you are bored.
• Don't get your fuel from the same place your car does.
• Spend as much time enjoying the meal as it took to prepare it.