We are happy to report that Larry has lost over 20 lbs in 6 weeks on our Nutrition Together progam here at FT Carmel Valley, but what you don’t know… is, well watch the Video and hear it from Larry himself…
Michael Pollan travelled to London this week to dish up his latest nourishing read, Food Rules – An Eater’s Manual. This collection of home spun dietary advice, that was previewed in the New York Times last year, has now been published in the UK by Penguin. Speaking at the Royal Society of Arts on Monday Pollan put forward the case that actually, with or without the increasingly prescriptive advice of food scientists and nutritionists, we humans have actually got pretty good common sense when it comes to knowing what’s best for us to eat.
In his new book, which can be described as a short pithy guide to good eating, Pollan makes the point that in Western culture we have become obsessed with very particular ingredients in our food which have become red herrings of nutritional advice. When fat was demonised in the 1970s it was replaced in food stuffs by increased quantities of salt and sugar to maintain flavour. While people focused on the ‘low-fat’ labels on the packaging they didn’t pay attention to what had taken fat’s place. And guess what… they got fat.
