Recently my wife and I were watching a PBS special where this doctor got up and talked about how we are eating too many of the wrong foods. Big news flash huh? But what he said that we found interesting was this idea of looking at every meal you eat in terms of percentages. As an example, if you see your plate as 100%, in his estimation, 85% of that plate should be covered in fruits and vegetables and the remaining 15% should be meats, breads and pastas. Now to me it basically means that you should adopt a strict vegan diet however my wife disagrees.
She feels that rather than going cold turkey and signing up for the South Beach Diet or something, we should moderate our intake of fatty foods and carbs. We should then increase dramatically our intake of raw fruits and veggies. In addition she felt we should also ramp up our water consumption as well. Now I am all for healthy living but it has taken some getting use to, especially when most of your plate was filled with a nice juicy steak and a buttery baked potato.