Hey David, I really like your approach. Unusually sane and balanced for Medium! (good luck when the anti-carb and hi-fat carnivores come on to criticize you! They claim the mantle of science and will quote endless statistics and contradict themselves 4 times before breakfast!!)

But speaking of breakfast, one thing. I know for many years everyone said don't skip breakfast, then for the last several years people encouraged folks to skip breakfast.

I've seen recently (finally) what I consider a balanced take on this. For some people, skipping breakfast works, for others, it doesn't.

I hesitate to recommend intuitive eating because it's so misunderstood (one of the most frequent keto fanatics on this platform has misrepresented it by writing, "If I ate intuitively, I'd gain 100 pounds").

No, intuitive eating, understood fully, includes developing an intuitive sensitivity to what your body needs. You'll find, rather remarkably, that you can even develop a sense of whether you need more or less fat, carbs or protein for a particular meal.

I took for granted the "you have to eat breakfast" mantra for years, until I discovered I did better without it.

HOWEVER! I notice on some days my body is needing (not just craving) some nutrients early in the morning. So I eat breakfast!

If folks are confident they have a balanced sense of what their body needs (I think it's very difficult if you don't have some solid scientific understanding of nutrition as well; at least the basics) they can be trusted to know - at least, over time - the best pattern for themselves.

Thanks for a VERY balanced, calm, sane article on food. All too rare on Medium.