Knowing What To Eat

It's funny: the smarter I get about the food, the harder it is to figure out what to eat.

Eating didn't used to be this hard. If I wanted a chicken club sandwich for lunch, I'd eat a chicken club sandwich for lunch. I didn't worry about whether the bacon came from an industrial pig, about whether the chicken was free-range, about the provenance of the bread, the lettuce, the tomato. I didn't worry about carbs or fats or nitrates, about having too little protein or too much protein or not the right kind of protein. I just ate and didn't think about it.

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