In Michael Moore's Action Plan: 15 Things Every American Can Do Right Now, the filmmaker has some recommendations for his “true and trusted fellow travelers.” It's uninspiring -- he should stick to propaganda films. But there amidst exhortations for socialized medicine, unionizing your workplace, and picketing your bank, was the following, which jumped out as, um, uncharacteristic:
Eat fruits and vegetables and cut down on anything that has sugar, high fructose corn syrup, white flour or too much sodium (salt) in it (and, as Michael Pollan says, "Eat (real) food, not too much, mostly plants"). Get seven hours of sleep each night and take the time to read a book a month. I know this sounds like I've turned into your grandma, but, dammit, take a good hard look at Granny -- she's fit, she's rested and she knows the names of both of her U.S. Senators without having to Google them. We might do well to listen to her. If we don't put our own "oxygen mask" on first (as they say on the airplane), we will be of no use to the rest of the nation in enacting any of this action plan!
Well scoff if you like – and in fairness, the man is not a recognized fitness authority – but as for me, I now assign as much weight to his views on healthy living as I do to his views on economics.
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