It would be very nice if someone would read the posts, filter good advice from bad advice, and make one summary post. I am interested in eating well (and cooking well is probably necessary for this goal), but most advice I get is very complicated and contradictory, and I don’t want to spend time researching this topic. A simple rule that is easy to remember and follow is much better for me than a complex rule I forget. Here are some very simple rules that seem good to me:
Every food must contain vegetables. (Vegetable = fiber + water + vitamins. Vitamins are good, fiber and water fill stomach without giving much calories. Soups are good too.)
Always eat breakfast; don’t eat after 6 PM. (These two parts reinforce each other. If you are not hungry at morning, you probably ate too much at evening.)
Don’t eat less, eat different. (If your diet makes you hungry, you are doing it wrong, because your willpower will break. You can eat as much vegetables as you want. In this comment, word “vegetables” does not include potatoes.)
This is IMHO a “level 0” of healthy eating. Extremely simple, but probably even this would improve the diet of many people. I would be interested in some “level 1″ advice—simple healthy recipes, or general guidelines on healthy food making.
EDIT: There already is a similarly simple advice on LW.
It would be very nice if someone would read the posts, filter good advice from bad advice, and make one summary post. I am interested in eating well (and cooking well is probably necessary for this goal), but most advice I get is very complicated and contradictory, and I don’t want to spend time researching this topic. A simple rule that is easy to remember and follow is much better for me than a complex rule I forget. Here are some very simple rules that seem good to me:
Every food must contain vegetables. (Vegetable = fiber + water + vitamins. Vitamins are good, fiber and water fill stomach without giving much calories. Soups are good too.)
Always eat breakfast; don’t eat after 6 PM. (These two parts reinforce each other. If you are not hungry at morning, you probably ate too much at evening.)
Don’t eat less, eat different. (If your diet makes you hungry, you are doing it wrong, because your willpower will break. You can eat as much vegetables as you want. In this comment, word “vegetables” does not include potatoes.)
This is IMHO a “level 0” of healthy eating. Extremely simple, but probably even this would improve the diet of many people. I would be interested in some “level 1″ advice—simple healthy recipes, or general guidelines on healthy food making.
EDIT: There already is a similarly simple advice on LW.