A great Michael Pollan talk at Google, where he questions nutrition in the hacker way: boiling nutrition down to simple rules based on fact. The root philosophy?

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. –Unhappy Meals, NYT

His thesis is bigger than that, though, and his method of deconstructing what we believe about nutrition is interesting. Really, why do we believe what we hear about nutrition when it clearly isn’t working?