Biohacking Lite
I&#x27;m French (and incidentally a doctor,and my post is not judgemental in any way, this is not the point).
Everytime I travel to the USA, I&#x27;m puzzled by how difficult it is to &quot;eat normally&quot; (= by my own standards).
You can find really good junk food everywhere, or pay a really high price to eat in high-level Italian restaurants for example, but it is very difficult to eat standard meat-with-vegetable-without-sugar-added, except in Asian restaurants (and even there, food is often sweetened). Of course it is biased because I have no access usually to a kitchen when I travel.<p>I think sugar is the main problem (not fat) and I&#x27;m not convinced calory count is key. We did not evolved to eat processed sugar, which is not easily found naturally in the environment.<p>My 2 cents:
- eat as much vegetables as you want (learn to cook them, with a little bit of olive oil)
- eat as much fish as you want (no need to cook! Low temperature baking, 1h at 70-80°, the best cooking you&#x27;ll ever have)
- eat meat in reasonable, &quot;as-if-you-had-to-hunt-it-with-a-bow&quot; quantities
- ban every processed food, sauce, appetizer.... If you would not eat a spoon of every single ingredient of some food, don&#x27;t eat it.
- ban all added sugar, except (real) honey in reasonable proportions.<p>This implies to know&#x2F;learn how to cook (not so hard but this is easier when the local&#x2F;family culture allowed you to learn passively).<p>It looks like this is hard to do in the USA: you don&#x27;t easily find, for example, yogurt without sugar added. (Or I didn&#x27;t look at the right place, once again this is not judgemental).<p>Generally speaking, it is easy to find online high-level cooking courses, but hard to learn the basics of how to cook your onions or tomatoes in different ways in everyday life, or make an healthy meal with what&#x27;s left in the fridge; this could be interesting to have.<p>--edited for typing errors