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<\/h1>\n<\/h1>\nDon\u2019t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn\u2019t recognize as food.<\/b><\/em> This is a food rule to live by according to Michael Pollan, food journalist, professor, activist and author of numerous New York Times bestsellers, including <\/span>In Defense of Food<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>The Omnivore\u2019s Dilemma<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n Other note-worthy rules among Michael Pollan\u2019s 64 Food Rules are:<\/p>\n Some of these are more obvious than others. <\/span><\/p>\n But, wait\u2026Cook? <\/b><\/p>\n Is cooking really considered a groundbreaking health-related, food rule? Sadly, yes. In fact, it\u2019s more of a reminder and an important one at that\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n As stated in Michael Pollan\u2019s latest book, <\/span>Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation, <\/span><\/i>\u201cThe amount of time spent preparing meals in American households has fallen by half since the mid-sixties, when I was watching my mom fix dinner, to a scant twenty-seven minutes a day. (Americans spend less time cooking than people in any other nation, but the general downward trend is global.)\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Michael Pollan also points out the ironic obsession with watching cooking on TV, reading about cooking and going to restaurants designed to watch live cooking, yet less people are actually cooking for themselves. Beyond that, we are living in a highly processed and ready-made, pseudo food world, completely void of essential nutrients.<\/span><\/p>\n But, one doesn\u2019t have to be Julia Child to enjoy a home-cooked meal.<\/b> In fact, healthy, delicious meals can be fairly simple and cooked in no time at all. For example, the following can be cooked in less than 30 minutes: steamed spinach with lemon and saut\u00e9ed olive oil, tomatoes and garlic mixed with a bowl of pasta.<\/span><\/p>\n If you or your loved ones are challenged with grocery shopping and\/or home-cooking due to a health condition, consider these <\/span>healthy food delivery services<\/a><\/strong>. Other food services include <\/span>Thrive Market<\/span>, a healthy organic, non-GMO online market, and <\/span>Blue Apron<\/span>, a marketplace that does some of the heavy lifting for you (e.g., delivers ingredients with exact proportions for a meal).<\/span><\/p>\n And, if you need a little more cooking inspiration, don\u2019t miss Michael Pollan\u2019s new <\/span>Netflix 4-part <\/span>docu-series, Cooked<\/span>, which \u201c<\/span>urges a return to the kitchen to reclaim our lost traditions and to forge a deeper, more meaningful connection to the ingredients and cooking techniques that we use to nourish ourselves.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n