Michael Pollan Quotes About Health Care

Quotes about: Health Care

• Don't eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. There are a great many food-like items in the supermarket your ancestors wouldn't recognize as food.. stay away from these

  Michael Pollan

  Health, Grandmother, Nutrition

• Is it just a coincidence that as the portion of our income spent on food has declined, spending on health care has soared? In 1960 Americans spent 17.5 percent of their income on food and 5.2 percent of national income on health care. Since then, those numbers have flipped: Spending on food has fallen to 9.9 percent, while spending on heath care has climbed to 16 percent of national income. I have to think that by spending a little more on healthier food we could reduce the amount we have to spend on heath care.

  Michael Pollan

  Thinking, Numbers, Income

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating”, p.111, Penguin UK

• ...There's a lot of money in the Western diet. The more you process any food, the more profitable it becomes. The healthcare industry makes more money treating chronic diseases (which account for three quarters of the $2 trillion plus we spend each year on health care in this country) than preventing them.

  Michael Pollan

  Country, Years, Three

  Michael Pollan (2009). “Food Rules: An Eater's Manual”, p.11, Penguin

• I think that the American diet is a very large part of the reason we're spending 2.3 trillion dollar per year on health care in this country. 75% of that money goes to treat chronic diseases, preventable chronic diseases, most of those are linked to diet.

  Michael Pollan

  Country, Thinking, Years

  Source: indianapublicmedia.org

• The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc., costs which are never charged directly to the consumer but, indirectly and invisibly, to the taxpayer (in the form of subsidies), the health care system (in the form of food-borne illnesses and obesity), and the environment (in the form of pollution), not to mention the welfare of the workers in the feedlot and the slaughterhouse and the welfare of the animals themselves.

  Michael Pollan

  Animal, Ninety Nine, Oil

• It's been a mystery to me and a disappointment why conversation about health care reform hasn't turned more attention to the subject of food.

  Michael Pollan

  Disappointment, Reform, Attention

  Source: indianapublicmedia.org

• The two things are synergistic, the health care crisis and the food crisis. Right now, to a large extent, the food industry's biggest product is patients for the health care industry and we have to break that.

  Michael Pollan

  Two, Care, Patient

  Source: indianapublicmedia.org

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