These couple of tips are extracted from Food Rules, an eater’s manual, by Michael Pollan.
He emphasises the need for basic, nutritious, non-commercial, non-processed food.

What not to eat……
-Avoid food that contain high-fructose corn syrup
-Eat only foods that will eventually rot.
-Eat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw state or growing in nature.
-If it came from a plant eat it; if it was made in a plant, don’t.
-It’s not food if it arrived through the window of your car.

What to eat…..
-Eat mostly plants, especially leaves.
-Eat your colours in veg.
-Eat animals that have themselves have eaten well.
-Eat oily fish.
-Sweeten and add salt to home made food yourself. If it’s made by a big food company it’s already over its recommended amount.
-Eat sweet food as you find them in nature.
-Don’t eat breakfast cereal that changes the colour of your milk.
-The whiter the bread the sooner you’ll be dead. As far as your body is concerned white four isn’t much different than sugar.

How much to eat…..
-Pay more eat less.
-Stop eating before you’re full.
-Eat when you’re hungry, not when you’re bored.
-Eat slowly.
-Spend as much time enjoying the meal as it took to prepare it.
-Buy smaller plates and glasses.
-“Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dinner like a pauper”.
-“After lunch, sleep awhile; after dinner walk a mile”.
-Limit your snacks to unprocessed plant food.
-Don’t get your fuel from the same place your car does.

Michael Pollan is also the author of In Defence of Food, and The Omnivore’s Dilema.