Oh, for....

[oursin]

Another annoying recommendation from Michael Pollan in second lengthy extract from his book in today's Guardian G2:
Don't eat anything that your great-grandmother wouldn't recognise as foodWhy your great-grandmother? Because at this point your mother, and possibly even your grandmother, are as confused as the rest of us; to be safe we need to go

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[hafren]

I have no idea what any of my great-grandmothers ate - I never met any of them.

He said something in his last article along the lines of "fats good carbs bad" which sounded ominously like Atkins. That was a rubbish diet that restricted fruit while one binged on animal fats and developed appalling bad breath. And I do believe Atkins died obese, so either he found it as joyless and impossible as most would, or the bloody thing didn't even work...

I also find "eat plants" irritatingly unspecific - if that includes fruit I might be ok, but not if he means veg, since I hate almost anything with green leaves.

[nineveh_uk]

Yum, deadly nightshade.

[oursin]

Lovely, lovely fly agaric!

[nineveh_uk]

Though it's tricky to keep a reindeer in a back-to-back.

[londonkds]

I note that he makes a positive reference to John Yudkin, who was a sort-of proto-Atkins when it came to the evils of carbohydrates (especially sugars) and joy of fat.