Overall, intentional eating starts with being mindful and aware of what you care about with food, when you’re hungry and when you’re not. After all, most diets fail because they require wholly unrealistic sweeping changes to daily life.
There is no gold standard for healthy eating. I’m always struck by the fact that we have the science of nutrition and very often they’re figuring out things that culture figured out a long time ago.” What is intentional eating? “There is so much cultural wisdom encoded in traditional meals and food combinations. “If anyone tells you there’s one proper way to eat for your health, that’s clearly not true,” he says in his class. For many, it’s about going back to the basics and the lessons from ancestors. Nor does intentional eating detail what you should or shouldn’t eat. Eating with intention doesn’t come with a complex set of rules, contrary to popular belief, Pollan tells Fortune in an exclusive interview ahead of the release of the class on MasterClass. Therefore, it would be a shame to always eat mindlessly, on-the-go, or to pass the time. It’s a sentiment that Pollan begins his class with, where he outlines that not only is food integral to our health but also to belonging in a community, our ties to family, and our role in the environment.
In a new class on MasterClass debuting Tuesday on intentional eating, Pollan distills his years of research to 13 tangible lessons, including rethinking your relationship with food, confronting the barriers to intentional eating, how to stir a passion for cooking, and the power of the shared meal.įood matters. Among his works were the notable, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual, and The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World.
The environmental journalist and New York Times bestselling author has extensively explored the relationship between food, agriculture, the mind, and the natural world for the last several decades. Michael Pollan sees food as a source of power and choice rather than stress and guilt.
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