Michael Pollan Quotes


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.


Citations

Pollan, Michael. In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto. Penguin Press, 2008, p. 1.

Related Quotes

An often cited quote from his original article “Unhappy Meals” (see citation) published in the New York Times Magazine in 2007. The article spawned a subsequent book entitled “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto“ in 2008.


Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan
  • Born: February 6, 1955
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Author, Journalist, Professor

Michael Kevin Pollan is an American author and journalist, who is currently the Knight Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.