nutrition

Here's some stuff I'm learning about nutrition:

1. Eat three meals a day, always. When you skip a meal, it just makes you eat more later, and eating a lot at night is not good.
2. Eat one to two healthy snacks a day between meals. Plan in advance so you have good stuff available.
3. Access is everything. Reorganize the refrigerator to have healthy stuff prominent and easy to get.
4. Throw out the fruit and vegetable bins, insted of hiding good stuff here, make it visible on the best shelves, and put other stuff where the bins were.
5. No junk food in the house! After parties, send people home with it, else throw it out!
6. Ice cream: never in the house, instead splurge and get really great ice cream out somewhere every few weeks.
7. Eat fish once or more a week.
8. Wine ok but not on a day when I've skipped a meal, as it will cause me to pig out!
9. Bad to get starved and then decide what to eat; instead always be prepared.
10. Do food shopping at awesome, fun, colorful places.

The best book I've read on nutrition is Eat, Drink and Be Healthy, The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating, by Walter C. Willett, M.D. He says: Good: fiber, water, fruit, vegetables, beans, nuts, plant oils, mono/poly fats, fish, eggs, poultry, vitamins; daily exercise and weight control Evil: red meat, fried anything, potatoes, refined grains, white rice/bread/pasta, butter, trans/sat fats, soda, sweets, buffalo sauce See also food pyramids and KaTom MyPlate.