Such is the level of wisdom that is imparted in food author Michael Pollan's interesting (and fun!) dietary do's and don'ts.

Pollan, whose books focus on various forms of food production, agribusiness, nutrition and diet, requested readers to submit their dietary rules, of which he received thousands. His top twenty recently appeared in The New York Times, a somewhat random selection of international advice, but informative none the less.

Here are five of my favourites!!!!!

"It's better to pay the grocer than the doctor"

"No second helpings, no matter how scrumptious"

"Avoid snacks with the "oh" sound in their names - doritos, fritos, cheetos, tostitos, hostess ho hos etc."

"Don't eat egg salad from a vending machine"

"Don't eat anything that took more energy to ship than to grow"

For more pearls of wisdom, see Michael Pollan's Food Rules: Your Dietary Do's and Don'ts.

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