When you go to the grocery store, you find that the cheapest calories are the ones that are going to make you the fattest - the added sugars and fats in processed foods.

Pollan co-starred in the documentary Food Inc. It is divided into three sections further explicating Pollan's principles of "Eat food. Foer criticizes Pollan's argument regarding table-fellowship.

". A 2006 New York Times book review describes him as a "liberal foodie intellectual.