Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants

"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants" is the revolutionary idea proposed by Food writer Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto" winner of the James Beard Award.
In a fascinating critique of Western approaches to food production and consumption (the author acknowledges his American bias but insists with some justification that his thesis applies with equal validity to all of the Western world, other than in his spelling!).

Pollan has a memorable turn of phrase, handy when you try to make converts to better eating.

His main trust is to return to the eating habits of previous generations (don't eat anything that your grandmother wouldn't recognise as food!), eating communally (don't refuel where your car does) with family & friends, slowly (the reason "French women don't get fat") and enjoying quality over quantity (avoid food which claims to be healthy or nutritional - it probably isn't).