Michael Pollan’s Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual is the action-item, CliffsNotes version of his In Defense of Food. A very quick read, it contains 64 rules of thumbs for eating more healthily. These rules emerged from his own research as well as from soliciting reader comments on the New York Times’ Well blog. To get a flavor (ha-ha) for these rules, you can see Pollan’s twenty favorites here, though they did not all make it to the book.
More detailed reviews of the book can be found at The Huffington Post and at The Moderate Voice