Michael Pollan's Book, In Defense of Food, begins "Eat Food. Not too much. Mostly plants." With deceiving simplicity, he explains that this is the diet humans should maintain in order to be "maximally healthy."
When I read the introduction to this book, I quickly realized that my diet is not quite up to snuff. In Pollan's terms, my current would sound something like this: "Eat meat. A good amount of sugar. Not too many plants." Therefore, as a personal reflective assignment for my IDH3931 - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle class, I have decided to modify my diet to align with Pollan's recommendations.
Over the next two months, I will update this blog with a variety of types of posts. During the first three weeks, I will dissect Pollan's three keys to eating properly. After I have done so, I plan to update this blog a few times to include my meals, thoughts on Pollan's recommendations, and how changing my diet has affected other aspects of my life. At the end of these two months, I will treat myself as a human experiment. What will it be like to go back to the sugary, processed, vegetable-barren diet of old? How will my body react? Most importantly, how will I react when I fully understand the implications of what I put into my body?
