Eating Healthy

Michael Pollan, the author of The Omnivore's Dilemma -- one of NY Times' best books of 2006 -- explains why America is getting fat and unhealthy. The culprit? Processed and refined foods. Our bodies are not adapted to eating Easy Mac, Kit Kat bars, white bread, or even supposedly 'healthy' food products like cereal bars. So avoid food that your great-great-grandmother wouldn't recognize and stick to the good stuff -- the less ingredients used in a product, the better. Eat vegetables (leafy veggies are best), and don't eat too much. Sound tough, but it's better than any of the alternatives: obesity, hypertension, high blood pressure, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, etc.