There was good article in yesterday’s times titled “Instead of Eating to Diet, They’re Eating to Enjoy.” The piece talks about the recent decline in American dieting as more people are attempting to add food to their diets instead of avoiding foods.

The general idea—and I have no idea why this is so hard for people to comprehend—is that if you eat a variety of foods and focus on things that are natural, local (locality just helps assure freshness and a lack of chemicals and additives used for transportation and storage) and varied you will have no problem ingesting all the vitamins and nutrients necessary for a healthy life.

Let me leave you with another point I found particularly interesting:

“Also, the more time people spend on tasks like food shopping, cooking and kitchen cleanup, the more likely they are to be of average weight. The Economic Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture found that people of normal weight spend more time on meal-related tasks than people who are overweight or underweight.”

Tara Parker Pope for the New York Times
September 17, 2008