My former GP had "The Omega Diet" in all his examining rooms. My first visit (1999), he told me to buy it, read it and follow it. I did. Started shopping at a Japanese supermarket; buying dark greed leaves with strange names like mizuna and kale. Canned sardines, tuna and salmon. Using olive oil for all sorts of things. (Discovering along the way my skin loves it as much as my gut.) Big step forward in health.

That doc retired and I continued on with a nurse GP. She approved of that diet but wanted me fully off dairy. (I'd stopped consuming non-cultured milk products many years before and was down to just yogurt and cheese.) She was right. I'm not a saint. My yogurt is now cashew yogurt (finally found a good one!) but I still buy small amounts of sharp, aged cheddar. I slice it very thin but it is one of life's pleasures and not going away. Pizza with friends and Italian subs every great once in a while. Well down on wheat consumption. (I do like good bread and I know it as one who used make it).

I now factor how I am going to feel after I eat in with what is looking good to my eyes. And funny, those foods that flunk the "after" test now look a lot less inciting and my appetite wants the good ones.