Eric Barker's blog post today: t.ly/vlrh
Garrison Keilor's writing today: t.ly/FArm
Barker is a good writer and has a column today of five ideas to assist with weight loss. One of the ideas is cut variety. Recently, Lynn and I have been reading and using "The Blue Zones Kitchen" by Dan Buettner. All his Blue Zones books are about people, culture, customs in places of the world where people are notably and statistically long-lived.
Living long might not be a goal for some people since their circumstances and bodies are very deteriorated. But in general, people want to live long [happy, satisfied] lives. The Blue Zones Kitchen says that many notably long-lived people practice eating the same foods over and over. They may even believe that variety in diet is unhealthy.
One of Barker's clues is "limit variety". He memorably says that if you have just finished a steak dinner and dessert was steak, you would probably pass.
I included the link to Keillor's piece because I find it enjoyably clever.
