Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

Reading Journal Entry 

• I watched Michael Pollan's interview on ABC's Good Morning America
• The interview was about Michael's book "Food Rules: An Eater's Manual". He gathered reader's tips and rules for buying, preparing and eating food, and put the most important one's in a book with illustrated pictures by Maira Kulman. 
• One of the rules was "Always order the small". Michael said that when McDonald's first started out, their only available soda size was 7 ounces. Nowadays a small is 16 ounces, that's over double the amount of what it used to be. I work at Starbucks Coffee shop and our small, or "tall", is 12 ounces. It's funny to watch first-time customer's faces when they see how tiny the small cups are, and they usually end up upgrading to the next size, a 16 ounce cup, but that's not the biggest we have. Our largest sized cold cup is a whopping 31 ounces, it's only available for tea and brew iced coffee, but you would not believe how many people ask to get sugary frappachinos or even some of our not-so-healthy lattes in them. So I can relate to this rule because of the overwhelming amount of people that don't know how unhealthy they're being by just ordering a drink.
• He makes a point about how the way we eat is what's been passed down from generation to generation in our own families. The things we've learned are better than anything that science will ever discover because, when you think about it, before the FDA was founded and before all of the diet fads, people ate just fine. There was no science reports about finding causes of cancers or diseases in food, but because of the new age and way of farming we have to worry about those things.
• I would say this is a really informative video to watch if you're a lover of food. There are tips of how to better enjoy your meals, what to avoid, and rules that you should eat by.