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Teaches Intentional Eating

Michael Pollan

Bestselling author and award-winning journalist Michael Pollan shares where his fascination with food chains began, and celebrates the start of the class with a surprise.

1. Meet Your Instructor

Meet Your Instructor

Michael describes the Western diet, the American paradox, and the values you can express through what you eat. He also teaches members how to plant seeds—literally and metaphorically.

2. Rethink Your Relationship With Food

Rethink Your Relationship With Food

Michael demystifies intentional eating. He also walks you through how systemic injustices invade our food systems and why they need to be addressed through government policies.

3. Confront Barriers to Intentional Eating

Confront Barriers to Intentional Eating

Learn how to navigate the four food chains—industrial, big organic, regenerative, and first-person—and explore the values each one represents.

4. Discover Where Your Food Comes From

Discover Where Your Food Comes From

Join Michael for a visit to a regenerative farm and listen in as he talks with farmers about their permaculture practices. Learn how their approach affects animals and plants on the farm, as well as the surrounding neighborhood.

5. Field Trip: City Slicker Farms

Field Trip: City Slicker Farms

Michael uncovers the truth of the meat industry, including the disturbing realities for animals and workers. He also offers insight on how meat-eating can be more ethical and provides a look at viable meat alternatives. 

6. Explore the Present and Future of Meat

Explore the Present and Future of Meat

Set yourself up for success, and good health. Michael teaches you why diets don’t work and offers his own simple food rules as a more sustainable option. 

7. Follow Food Rules, Not Diets

Follow Food Rules, Not Diets

Michael explains why you should avoid ultraprocessed foods and how to distinguish real food from food-like substances. Learn how to smartly navigate a supermarket—then embark on a scavenger hunt.

8. Eat Food

Eat Food

It’s not just the food you eat, but the amount. Michael opens your eyes to the psychological tricks corporations employ to get you to eat more, and shows you how to avoid their traps.

9. Not Too Much

Not Too Much

Michael walks you through the many benefits that a primarily plant-based diet has to offer. He also offers his take on the controversial topic of GMOs.

10. Eat Mostly Plants

Eat Mostly Plants

Michael explores the unique history of coffee and sugar. Learn how these substances affect your body and mind—and manage your consumption to fit your needs.

11. Balance Caffeine and Sugar Consumption

Balance Caffeine and Sugar Consumption

Cooking is the most important skill you can hone to eat intentionally. Michael shows you how to rediscover the joy of preparing your own food.

12. Stir Up a Passion for Cooking

Stir Up a Passion for Cooking

Michael shares his view on the power of communal meals, and he urges you to embrace the ways eating can bring people together.

13. Celebrate the Communal Meal

Celebrate the Communal Meal

Michael Pollan Teaches Intentional Eating

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