When should I eat?
When should I eat? This is a question that I never would have thought to ask as I was growing up. As a child, I was fed breakfast, lunch and supper plus some snacks in between. I grew up “knowing” that breakfast was the most important meal of the day, lunch was a small meal eaten in the middle of the day and was often consumed while doing something else and supper was the sit-down meal, which was eaten with my family around 6 PM. The term “dinner” wasn’t used often and when it was, usually it was synonymous with supper. As kids we were told that we should eat a balanced diet and occasionally our teacher would tell us what the “government” meant by discussing the guidelines that had been sent to her. As I have adapted to retirement, I have started to think about what to eat and when to eat. I’ll tackle the latter in this entry and leave the former until a later day. In the last year or so, I have read a couple of "health" books such as Lifespan by David Sinc...