What and How to Eat (NYT)

Michael Pollan’s recent piece in the New York Times, “Unhappy Meals“, is the single best piece I’ve read on food in the last five years. By synthesizing the recent history of American diet trends with the uncertain science that inspires them, Pollan makes a powerful case that manufactured products, for all their ingenuity, lay claims that make better marketing than medicine.

The simple conclusion: the food you should eat today is the food you could’ve eaten 100 years ago. Supermarkets sell much less food than you might think.