May8

This is the book, Food Rules, I referenced in my sermon on Sunday. The author offer 64 ‘rules’ for healthier eating. It is a lot of fun and informative to read. Here are my ‘top 20′ from his list. Maybe you will take a few and implement them into your dietary habits:

Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.

Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third grader cannot pronounce.

Shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle.

Eat only foods that will eventually rot.

Don’t ingest foods made in places where everyone is required to wear a surgical cap.

If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don’t.

Treat meat as a flavoring or special occasion food.

Eat animals that have themselves eaten well.

Don’t eat breakfast cereals that change the color of the milk.

The whiter the bread, the sooner you’ll be dead.

Be the kind of person who takes supplements – then skip the supplements.

Eat less.

Eat when you are hungry not when you are bored.

Eat slowly.

Spend as much time enjoying the meal as it took to prepare it.

Don’t get your fuel from the same place your car does.

Treat treats as treats.

Try not to eat alone.

Stop eating before you are full.

Break the rules once in a while.

Tim