Healthy Eating

For the last week, I’ve been following the blog Clean Plate by Ellen Tarlin, hosted on Slate. In her blog, Tarlin, a Slate writer, is documenting a 6-week effort to figure out how she can eat more sanely. Happily, the blog is not about losing weight or counting calories, but about eating healthfully without dieting. Each week has a theme; this past week, the blog's first, was devoted to figuring out how to sort through the immense amount of nutrition information available about our food. For the upcoming week, the theme is money and how much it costs to eat well.

It’s interesting to read about someone trying to figure out how to eat so that they feel better and feel healthier. One takeaway from the first week is how much more energetic she feels when eating regular meals, rather than going from coffee to chocolate to snack. At the same time, she’s noting some of the challenges: planning meals, shopping for food, lugging food around. But mainly it’s refreshing to see someone writing so much about everyday eating without also writing about calories, dieting, and weight loss.