Food guru preaches healthy eating at Chattanooga’s Tivoli Theatre

Michael Pollan

If the food you’re eating won’t rot, don’t eat it.

That’s the advice noted food author Michael Pollan gave a packed house at the Tivoli Theatre on Thursday evening.

“Don’t eat any food that won’t eventually rot,” he said. “Don’t eat cereal that changes the color of the milk.”

And if a third-grader can’t pronounce the ingredients list, it’s not a real food.

Pollan, author of multiple books on the food industry, including “The Omnivore’s Dilemma,” shared several other food rules in his Benwood Foundation-funded lecture, but they all boiled down to one succinct point.