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By Matthew Rees

Food and Health Fact #61: Misleading health claims in supermarkets

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This week's "food for thought" excerpt comes from In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (2008), by Michael Pollan.

"As a general rule, it's a whole lot easier to slap a health claim on a box of sugary cereal than on a raw potato or a carrot, with the perverse result that the most healthful foods in the supermarket sit there quietly in the produce section, silent as stroke victims, while a few aisles over in Cereal the Cocoa Puffs and Lucky Charms are screaming their newfound 'whole-grain goodness' to the rafters."