1.
Eat food
2.
Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother
wouldn’t recognize as food
3.
Avoid food products containing ingredients that no
ordinary human would keep in the pantry
4.
Avoid food products that contain high-fructose
corn syrup
5.
Avoid food products that have some form of sugar
(or sweetener listed among) the top three ingredients
6.
Avoid food products that have more than 5
ingredients
7.
Avoid food products containing ingredients that a
third-grader cannot pronounce
8.
Avoid food products that make health claims
9.
Avoid food products with the words “lite” or the
terms “low fat” or “nonfat” in their names
10. Avoid
foods that are pretending to be something they are not
11. Avoid
foods you see advertised on television
12. Shop
the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle
13. Eat
only foods that will eventually rot
14. Eat
foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw state or growing
in nature
15. Get
out of the supermarket whenever you can
16. Buy
your snacks at the farmers market
17. Eat
only foods that have been cooked by humans
18. Don’t
ingest foods made in places where everyone is required to wear a surgical cap
19. If it
came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don’t.
20. It’s
not food if it arrived through the window of your car
21. It’s
not food if it’s called by the same name in every language (Think Big Mac,
Cheetos or Pringles)
22. Eat
mostly plants, especially leaves
23. Treat
meat as a flavoring or special occasion food
24. Eating
what stands on one leg [mushrooms and plant foods] is better than eating what
stands on two legs [fowl], which is better than eating what stands on four legs
[cows, pigs and other mammals].
25. Eat
your colors
26. Drink
the spinach water
27. Eat
animals that have eaten well themselves
28. If
you have space, buy a freezer
29. Eat
like an omnivore
30. Eat
well-grown food from healthy soil
31. Eat
wild foods when you can
32. Don’t
overlook the oily little fishes
33. Eat
some foods that have been predigested by bacterial or fungi
34. Sweeten
and salt your food yourself
35. Eat
sweet foods as you find them in nature
36. Don’t
eat breakfast cereals that change the color of the milk
37. The
whiter the bread, the sooner you’ll be dead
38. Favor
the kinds of oils and grains that have traditionally been stone-ground
39. Eat
all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself
40. Be
the kind of person who takes supplements – then skip the supplements
41. Eat
more lie the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks.
42. Regard
nontraditional foods with skepticism
43. Have
a glass of wine with dinner
44. Pay
more, eat less
45. Eat
less
46. Stop
eating before you’re full
47. Eat
when you are hungry, not when you are bored
48. Consult
your gut
49. Eat
slowly
50. The
banquet is in the first bite
51. Spend
as much time enjoying the meal as it took to prepare it
52. Buy
smaller plates and glasses
53. Serve
a proper portion and don’t go back for seconds
54. Breakfast
like a king, lunch like a prince, dinner like pauper
55. Eat
meals
56. Limit
your snacks to unprocessed plant foods
57. Don’t
get your fuel from the same place your car does
58. Do
all your eating at a table
59. Try
not to eat alone
60. Treat
treats as treats
61. Leave
something on your plate
62. Plant
a vegetable garden if you have space, a window box if you don’t
63. Cook
64. Break
the rules once in a while
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