A Conversation about Healthy Eating

So that’s what this introduction is about:  setting expectations. Perhaps I  should start with a bit of background. I’ve always enjoyed eating but, until a few years ago, I’d never really thought very deeply about my diet. Which is not to say that I’d never really worried about my diet: like most people I was constantly watching my weight and stressed about whether or not I was eating the right foods or the right amount of food. But at some point I realized that I didn’t need to live with that uncertainty. Like any physical system, the body is governed by rules that determine how different inputs  – for example, diets  – are transformed into different outputs – for example, health. To eliminate the stress associated with eating, I simply needed to learn the rules that determine how diet affects health and then use those rules to make systematic choices about what I eat.