Here are some great tips for eating healthy from Michael Pollan, author of one of my favorite books, “In Defense of Food.”

1. Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food – yogurt tubes, for example.
2. Don’t eat anything with more than five ingredients, or ingredients you can’t pronounce.
3. Stay out of the middle of the supermarket; shop on the perimeter, where real food tends to be located.
4. Don’t eat anything that won’t eventually rot (e.g. Twinkies). Honey might be the only exception.
5. Always leave the table a little hungry.
6. Enjoy meals with the people you love.
7. Don’t buy food where you buy your gasoline.

These are words to live by. I especially like number 7! If you follow these seven simple rules, you are on your way to being healthy and beating diabetes.