the complexity of the ingredients in food and the even more complex human body and the individuals unique needs depending on climate, work, emotional state, atmospheric conditions, soil content etc. etc. makes dieting more of an art than a science  it can be assumed that the tongue/brain connection of the nervous system exists, among other things, to allow the brain to assess how important the food is to the physiology coupling the desirability of the taste of a food and applying common sense should be enough to keep us in good shape the writer suggests you try as many different foods as you can over the course of three to six months and let your desire for a particular food guide what you eat you should find that several months after trying something the brain will trigger a memory/hunger signal for that food again as we age and the metabolism becomes less efficient it becomes necessary to wise up as to what our limitations are it's generally acknowledged that the first meal of the is the day is the most important and the writer completely agrees the writer has got into the routine of having his main meal ( meat and 2 veg ) for breakfast nine out of ten times the writer eats a cooked meal no matter whether it's breakfast, lunch or an evening meal the meat is limited to 2 to 3 ounces a day whereas the vegatables vary in amount depending on the amount of energy used or as desire suggests after adopting a cooked meals only diet the first thing that was noticed was a reduced build up of plaque on the teeth (it took two or three days before the plaque built up to the point where the teeth felt like they needed cleaning)  whether there's any mileage to be had from keeping notes of those foods that produce less and more plaque and basing a diet around foods that produce less plaque may be worth exploring the next thing was a dramatic reduction in the frequency of the need to go the toilet it dropped to once a week the third thing was a noticeable improvement in the complexion of the skin as we get into the swing of following the road map of evolution that the lover has laid out for us going to the toilet will reduce as the millennia roll on once a year within the calculable future excessive fats and especially animal fats are what put the weight on vegetable fats aren't as likely to pile on the excess tissue in the way animal fat does as the writer understands it the physiology can utilise fats for energy more readily than other foods the problem is it will use the fats first and store the other foodstuff for later the writer tried a diet that had no fats and it caused a craving for fats every four of five days it appears that the role of fats in the body is for something other than just to provide energy putting an amount of fat into the gravy to satisfy the craving for fat is one way of doing it taking largish amounts of fats in the first and biggest meal of the day doesn't cause a build up of fat tissue in the way that taking them in meals later on in the day does regularly eating a main meal with fats within 3 hours of going to sleep is guaranteed to cause weight problems the trick seems to be leaving the table  feeling as though you could eat the whole thing all over again this maxim does work but it has the drawback of needing to have at least three, and sometimes as many as five, meals a day not very practical in the way societies are run at the moment if you find that you tend to eat to the point of feeling full it might be that the food content isn't what yourt physiology requires play with your feelings of hunger to the point where eating potatoes with every meal doesn't cause any unwanted weight-gain if a person enjoys potatoes every time she or he eats a meal then then have potatoes with every meal it's should be a simple matter of varying the amount to prevent unwanted weight-gain from happening it is this persons experience that salt, fats and eating late at night are the three thing to watch most carefully beings do not eat in heaven