Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.

1% better every day at 11:11am - newsletter #046

I just finished the book "Food Rules" by Michel Pollan. I discovered this incredible writer/journalist earlier this year. He released an audiobook on caffeine which fascinated me and made me want to stop drinking coffee for 30 days.

"Food Rules" is a little 100-page book that can be read in one go. Michael explains in a very simple way the main principles of nutrition that we should all know (and apply in our lives). Eating in our time has gotten complicated. Most of us have come to rely on experts of one kind or another to tell us how to eat—doctors and diet books, media accounts of the latest findings in nutritional science, government advisories and food pyramids, the proliferating health claims on food packages.

How odd is it that everybody now has at least a passing acquaintance with words like “antioxidant,” “saturated fat,” “omega-3 fatty acids,” “carbohydrates,” “polyphenols,” “folic acid,” “gluten,” and “probiotics”? It’s gotten to the point where we don’t see foods anymore but instead look right through them to the nutrients (good and bad) they contain, and of course to the calories—all these invisible qualities in our food that, properly understood, supposedly hold the secret to eating well.

The book gives us 64 practical advices to follow and I will share my favorites with you:

• Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

• Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.

• Avoid food products containing ingredients that no ordinary human would keep in the pantry.

• Avoid food products that contain high-fructose corn syrup.

• Avoid food products that contain more than five ingredients.

• Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce.

• Avoid foods you see advertised on television.

• Eat only foods that have been cooked by humans.

• Don’t ingest foods made in places where everyone is required to wear a surgical cap.

• It’s not food if it arrived through the window of your car.

• Eat your colors.

• Don’t eat breakfast cereals that change the color of the milk.

• Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself.

• Pay more, eat less.

• Stop eating before you’re full.

• Eat when you are hungry, not when you are bored.

• Spend as much time enjoying the meal as it took to prepare it.

• Don’t get your fuel from the same place your car does.

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ONE QUOTE TO SHARE

“To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation...Love is a high inducement to the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world for himself for another's sake, it is a great exacting claim upon him, something that chooses him out and calls him to vast things.”

Rainer Maria Rilke - Letters to a Young Poet

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ONE ARTICLE TO READ

• Live Every Day on TikTok Like It's Your Last

It’s been rumored for months, but late last night President Trump actually said the words out loud:

“As far as TikTok is concerned we’re banning them from the United States,” he told reporters on Air Force One. “I will sign the document tomorrow,” aka today. It’s not clear what authority the president will use to ban one of the world’s most popular social media apps from operating in the U.S., but Bloomberg says it'll be through executive order or under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

This is pretty wild…

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ONE PERSON TO FOLLOW

• Power of Positivity

Why don't you put a little positivity into your instagram? That's the purpose of this 5.6 million subscriber account. Every day it posts quotes to make yourself feel good. Granted, quotes are sometimes a little simplistic...

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ONE QUESTION TO ASK YOURSELF

• What nice thing can you do for someone else today?

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ONE WORKOUT TO DO

• My “Warm-Up Morning Routine” Workout

Getting up early is good. Getting up early with energy is better! There's nothing worse than getting up very early and spending the time doing nothing. To avoid this, I strongly recommend this little workout of 10x1min which will stimulate you and make your energy flow.

10 jumping jacks + 10 mountain climbers + 10 pushups
Every 1 minute, for 10 minutes

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