HEALTHY EATING

A
hundred years ago, people received nutritional guidance from
mothers and grandmothers: Eat your carrots because they’re
good for your eyes; don’t eat too many potatoes because they’ll make
you fat; be sure to get plenty of roughage so you can more easily move
your bowels. Today, everyone seems to off er more advice: Take a
vitamin supplement to optimize your health; don’t eat fi sh with cabbage because you won’t be able to digest them together; you can’t stay
healthy on a vegetarian diet. Nutrition is one of those topics about
which all people seem to think they know something, or at least have
an opinion. Whether it is the clerk in your local health food store
recommending that you buy supplements or the woman behind you
in line at the grocery store raving about the latest low-carbohydrate
diet, everyone is ready to off er you nutritional advice. How do you
know what to believe or, more importantly, what to do?