Eat only food that doesn't rot

Michael Pollan, author In Defense of Food of and The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals gives some good advice:

"don't eat any food that's incapable of rotting. If the food can't rot eventually, there's something wrong."

He also blames many of our health problems on the "western diet":

we all know what the Western diet is, but to reiterate it, it's lots of processed food, lots of refined grain and pure sugar, lots of red meat and processed meats, very little whole grains, very little fresh fruits and vegetables. That's the Western diet -- it's the fast-food diet -- that we know it leads to those diseases. About 80 percent of heart disease, at least as much Type II diabetes, 33 to 40 percent cancers all come out of eating that way, and we know this.

He blames our society for making bad food cheap and recommends:

You need a farm bill that makes carrots competitive with Wonder Bread.

He goes on to explain how we add preservatives to food so we can transport it and then we spend lots of money (and contribute to global warming) by transporting the food around the world.

Read the whole interview at AlterNet.