The main point is to eat as much real food as possible, and you’ll be OK. No need to obsess about it, but I’d say you eat pretty healthy anyway. And I know John eats well too. Right John?

I do spend a lot of time in the produce section: searching for perfect bananas (could not resist), varied leafy greens, along with a myriad of colored vegetables and fruits with hearty peels and juicy centers.

I can’t say that I bake my own bread though. Now I’ll be OCD’ing over all my pantry items – checking the labels for multitude syllabled words that are not good for me. Can’t I just drink a beer and call it good and healthy? Damn.

…and guess what? I’m hungry now….

By “food” what Pollan means is the stuff that is found on the outer edges of the grocery store; fruits, vegetables, nuts, cheeses, meat, milk, that sort of thing. Basically, the less processed it is the better it will be for you. The problem is with the stuff in the center aisles of the grocery store, the artificial and unnatural hydrogenated oils, high fructose corn syrup and the chemical additives and flavor enhancers that go into food that has had it’s flavor and nutrition taken out of it by industrial processing.

Case in point, my grandmothers and yours as well would recognize bread as consisting mainly of 4 ingredients; flour, yeast, water, and salt. Compare that to a commercially baked “whole grain” bread which contains over 25 ingredients including ethoxylated mono- and diglycerides and azodicarbonamide and a host of other tongue twisters. I’m willing to bet our ancestors didn’t have bottles of these chemicals in their pantries becuase they didn’t need them.

When I’m feeling blue, I don’t want something green, Miles. No, no, no. I want that dark, sweet, yummy stuff that melts in your mouth, not in your hands.