Keep it Fresh

I'm trying to keep the titles interesting/clever. It's getting difficult.

I just read an article in the Miami Herald about a UM program that seeks to improve academic performance through fitness and healthy eating at Miami Edison High School (that's where I play 7-v-7 soccer!). One of the tips from Arlette Perry, head of Exercise and Sports Sciences at the U, is to keep to the outer edges of the supermarket when food-shopping. That is where the healthy, perishable foods are.

My good friend Barry, whose wife is a nutrition professor at Tufts School of Nutrition, once told me that they would eat all the junk that everyone else did if they bought it. It's a good point. If you don't have chips and cake and soda in the house, then you won't eat those things. It's a simple, yet effective, nutrition habit. Think about it...