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4. "Avoid food products that carry health claims."

Wouldn't sushi and the raw bar be included in this?

I've read all of Michael Pollan's book and this is considered more guideline than commandments. The first one is just the first general step. He's referring to, say, Go-Gurt. She wouldn't know what to do with it - brush her teeth? As for eating healthy - I'm a busy college student but I make it a conscious decision to eat right since I've done enough reading to know that poor diet high in animal-based proteins and fats is what is driving the obesity, heart disease, diabetes and even cancer in our country. Don't eat organic - it is often shipped from very far away so it's not always that good for you since it's not fresh and has a high carbon footprint due to transportation. I go to the grocery store twice a week and spend about $30 ($60/wk) on fruits and vegetables and seeds/nuts mostly. It would be convenient for me to just eat at fast food restaurants and get my quick heavy fix of calories, but if i ate twice a day at Taco John's, McDonalds, Burger King, etc.. it would cost me about ten dollars a day ($70/wk). Or even eating on campus costs about $50-60 so it's looks like it's better to just make my own food at home. And it's MUCH cheaper to make your OWN pizzas instead of ordering them out all the time. It's just less convenient. I actually love the time I spend making my food... cutting the vegetables. It creates so much anticipation for what you're about to eat you're about to explode by the time you finally get to eat it.

The problem with corn-fed beef is that the cattle are literally sick when slaughtered. A grass fed cow reaches slaughter weight around 4 years (~48 months), but a corn fed cow is grass fed for 6 months and then sent to a feedlot where they are fed a corn/grain based diet until slaughtered at 14-16 months (about 8 months to reach 48 month equivalent). The grain, that their digestive tracks aren't meant to digest, can make them very sick. The biggest health problem seen on feedlots is bloat from all the grain that they're systems just can't properly break down which creates large amounts of gas (leading to methane that gets in the air). Because the corn makes them so sick, they are injected with antibiotics (which you then eat). Your food is only as good as what your food ate. Of course the beef tastes different - corn is the basis of almost our whole diets by sweetening up this or that or making foods more appealing. But the meat tastes so empty compared to properly prepared grass-fed beef. It's not really the humanity of these operations that keeps me from eating beef, it's knowing that the food I'm eating would have died within a few months after if not slaughtered at 14 months from health complications due to force fed corn.

You find once you care about what you eat and where it's coming from, all of these guidelines are pretty much common sense and come pretty easy to follow. Most of the rest of the world consider food always near the top of the priority list - and they don't have the rates of disease as we see in this country. Wonder why?

I was disappointed by the shrek m&ms so I will probably sit this one out. Still, I like the hieroglyphs

Oops, meant to add, and aww, I feel special :)

I have been on the hunt for both the m&m's and snickers bar, but have not found them anywhere!! Will continue to search, hopefully I will find them this weekend. My husband thought it was quite funny last night as I was going to a few different stores looking for them

We were at the store lastweekend and the husband, a HUGE Indiana Jones fan, tossed a bag of the mint M&Ms into the cart. I looked at him as if he'd sprouted another head and said "Do you realize those are MINT?!?" He promptly returned them to the display from whence they came as he abhors anything mint flavored. He's a fan but he has his limits. I will definitely hunt down the peanut version for him.

I'm really wishing my chocolate aversion was done. I may stash a coconut-laden Snickers in the freezer with my Cadbury mini-eggs so I can consume both post-partum...

@simon- why do you even bother to read this site? Seriously. If the content bothers you so much just stop visiting.

But they're limited edition! Someday they'll be worth MILLIONS!

I have to say, I also wanted to write the post about these things so I had an excuse to run the photo of a melting Nazi on Serious Eats.

Dude, it's a blog. On the internetz. It can't be that serious. Regardless of what it's call.

Also, I was under the impression that people who couldn't care less don't even bother to reply. Much less make inaccurate statements about diabetes.

RE: "I wonder if the movie concessions will sell the Indy candy!"

Ummmmmmm ....

It's Serious Eats...not Snobby Eats. Sheesh.

Serious Eats is getting less and less serious each day with posts like these.