People say they don't have time to cook, yet in the last few years we have found an extra two hours a day for the internet.

Avoid foods you see advertised on television.

There are things we know and things we don't know about food. But there are certain basic things we do know, and that's what I've tried to build these rules on.

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it, does not seem to be one of them.

That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of eating, which would be bad enough, but paradoxically of our health as well. Indeed, no people on earth worry more about the health consequences of their food choices than we Americans-and no people suffer from as many diet-related problems. We are becoming a nation of orthorexics: people with an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.

Man is by definition the first and primary weed. Weeds are not the other. Weeds are us.