When I first entered the healthy eating field 33 years ago, I excitedly read article after article about new health studies. But after a couple years, things got a little boring.

I had hoped to uncover some crown jewels, i.e., the key secrets to healthy eating. While I came across a couple small and exciting nuggets here and there, for the most part every article ended with the same, boring advice: Eat lots of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, nuts, seeds, and animal or other protein, i.e., a real whole food diet.*

I started collecting articles on all the different diseases and conditions that had the same advice. I stopped after reaching 25, but with my article on brain health, I must now add brain health to make it 26!

With such a preponderance of evidence for the real, whole food diet, maybe there’s something to this “boring” prescription?!!

*Note that not one article recommended eating not-foods like vending machine cookies, cheese flavored snacks or frozen pot pies!