At some point in the mid-2000s, grazing entered the nutritional lexicon as an agent of weight control. It was intuitive: if you never let your stomach get too full, then you would stop putting on weight. Bulk in the diet, a full stomach, eating to satiety, was fingered as a…
“Super food” is a pop nutrition term, generally applied to the vegetable du jour (e.g., asparagus, avocado), or to some exotic tropical fruit of which you’ve never heard. The idea: there are some foods which are super-duper, a cut above, far more nutritious than most of what goes on your…
… now does that sound like a scam headline or what? All it needs is the obligatory, “using this one weird trick.” But I did not use any trick. I followed a procedure that required some discipline. And I may have benefited from a specific physiology consequent to my ethnicity.…