One of the dietary recommendations in Michael Pollan’s recent article Unhappy Meals is to “eat like an omnivore.” While he’s not convincing me to reintroduce meat into my diet, the idea of eating a variety of foods in order to better cover nutritional needs seems to make sense to me. I do take a daily vitamin just to make sure I’m covering the basics, but I’d prefer to get as much of my nutritional needs as possible via whole foods, instead.
Of course this variety approach should probably be balanced with the idea of eating locally, or primarily consuming foods that …read more

I found this Beginner’s Guide to Vegetarianism interesting because it offers some very different advice from what you find in most ‘going vegetarian’ guides. I’m not sure I agree with some of the suggestions, but hey, different things work for different people. There are so many different ways to eat vegetarian, so of course there are a lot of different ways that people approach this diet choice. (I refuse to call it a ‘lifestyle’ – what you eat is not your lifestyle, it’s your diet. Plus, when people say things like ‘low carb lifestyle’ it makes my skin crawl. But …read more