The final chapter in Micheal Pollan's book, "In Defense Of Food" (2008), discusses how to eat in a healthy way. The two main themes are to eat less and to eat whole foods. With regards to eating less, Pollan discusses a potpourri of ideas and research including behavioural strategies such as reducing the sizes of your plates and cups and buying cups that are long and slender to give the illusion of more volume. At a cultural level, Pollan discusses some of the history and ideas behind the Slow Food Movement and argues that some of this thinking might be helpful in getting us to eat less. Eating slowly and deliberately, in full knowledge of the the short food chain that delivered the food to your table, replete with whole foods, may be the type of antidote we need to our current drive-through go-yurt culture. For those who can afford to, he advocates spending more on quality food and that smaller portions of high quality food eaten slowly is a proven way to eat healthy. If you buy whole foods you don't have to look at nutrition labels because 1) they don't advertise the ingredients (why?), and 2) food is about more than nutrition and will take care of itself if you buy whole foods ideally from short food chains.

In one section of the final chapter, Pollan reflects upon the usefullness of blessing your food as a way to slow down and reflect on your food experience. While he doesn't do blessings himself, he sometimes recalls a couple of sentences by Wendell Berry, to get him in the mood to eat more deliberately:

Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience and celebrate our dependence and our gratitude, for we are living from mystery, from creatures we did not make and powers we cannot comprehand.

To turn this into a blessing I might use, I would do these edits:

In this meal may we experience and celebrate our dependence and our gratitude, for we are living from mystery, from creatures we did not make and powers we cannot comprehand. Amen.