Advice from a small town girl

It’s time to get back to my original purpose – the pursuit of good health.

Right about the time I got on my soapbox, I also went back to Weight Watchers. Now, I’ve lost count of the times that I’ve “gone back” to Weight Watchers. My mother made me join when I was a teenager, and it was AWFUL. You were required to eat fish four times a week, liver once a week and were limited to 4 eggs per week, along with a host of other restrictions. No wonder people lost weight: They were either starving to death or couldn’t stomach what they were allowed to eat.

Not so any more. As nutritional science has p...