Michael Pollan quotes - page 4

Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum. (Michael Pollan)
Without such a thing as fast food, there would be no need for slow food. View quote
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The family meal is the nursery of democracy. View quote
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We forget how much time it can take simply to avoid cooking. View quote
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Don't eat anything that won't eventually rot. View quote
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It's not food if it arrived through the window of your car. View quote
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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. View quote
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Eat slowly, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure. View quote
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Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself. View quote
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You may not think you eat a lot of corn and soybeans, but you do: 75 percent of the vegetable oils in your diet come from soy (representing 20 percent of your daily calories) and more than half of the sweeteners you consume come from corn (representing around 10 perecent of daily calories). View quote
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The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world. (Michael Pollan)
We are at once the problem and the only possible solution to the problem. View quote
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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. View quote
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The soybean itself is a notably inauspicious staple food; it contains a whole assortment of "antinutrients" - compounds that actually block the body's absorption of vitamins and minerals, interfere with the hormonal system, and prevent the body from breaking down the proteins of the soy itself. View quote
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...forgetting is vastly underrated as a mental operation. View quote
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...There's a lot of money in the Western diet. The more you process any food, the more profitable it becomes. The healthcare industry makes more money treating chronic diseases (which account for three quarters of the $2 trillion plus we spend each year on health care in this country) than preventing them. View quote
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[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa. View quote
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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. View quote
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Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness. View quote
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Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks. View quote
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Twenty thousand birds moved away from me as one, like a ground-hugging white cloud, clucking softly. (Michael Pollan)
Ripe vegetables were magic to me. Unharvested, the garden bristled with possibility. I would quicken at the sight of a ripe tomato, sounding its redness from deep amidst the undifferentiated green. To lift a bean plant's hood of heartshaped leaves and discover a clutch of long slender pods handing underneath could make me catch my breath. View quote
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Curiously, the one bodily fluid of other people that doesn't disgust us is the one produced by the human alone: tears. Consider the sole type of used tissue you'd be willing to share. View quote
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We have food deserts in our cities. We know that the distance you live from a supplier of fresh produce is one of the best predictors of your health. And in the inner city, people don't have grocery stores. They have to get on a bus and take a long ride to get to a source of fresh produce. View quote
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For great many species today, fitness means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind has become the most powerful evolutionary force. View quote
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