If you can't pronounce it, dont eat it (NPR)

Thank you Chirstie Kellogg for teaching me to always shop the perimeter aisles of Shop Rite for food...not the middle isles. It was one of the many things you've taught my family to make us healthier! I miss you!

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Michael Pollan: If You Can't Say It, Don't Eat It

by Alex Cohen

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Alex Cohen, NPR

Michael Pollan stands in his garden. Growing his own food is not only healthful, he says, but it's also cheap.

If your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize it as food, then neither should you, award-winning writer Michael Pollan is wont to say. He shares additional tips on how to eat for a healthier body and planet, the focus of his latest book, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto.

1.) Shop at the Fringes

Stay away from the middle aisles of the supermarket, which tend to be filled with ultra-processed food with labels like "trans fat-free," "low cholesterol" and "heart healthy."

2.) If You Can't Say It, Don't Eat It

Don't buy products with more than five ingredients or any ingredients you can't easily pronounce.

3.) Cultivate a Garden

Producing your own food not only saves money and reduces carbon emissions, but it also helps you stay in shape.

4.) Buy Local

Shop at farmers markets.