Why This Seven-Word Food Rule Is the Only One You'll Ever Need

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Why This Seven-Word Food Rule Is the Only One You’ll Ever Need

Nearly 20 years after Michael Pollan’s food rule first appeared, his seven-word philosophy still offers a radical kind of clarity in a world of synthetic eating and ultra-processed abundance.

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