Good yum.

The World's Healthiest Foods website is proving to be an excellent resource. I've been trying to eat my way through the list, which isn't easy. It seems that a lot of the food on that list is common to an Asian diet, but may seem a bit strange to the typical American (or even European) palette.

I was surprised by how healthy some of these leafy green vegetables are: collards, kale, and even romaine lettuce. I never used to eat collards before, but now I prefer them to (my previously favorite side of) spinach. Kale seems to go well with a lot of Asian sauces, so that's what I'm going to try tonight. By the way, leafy greens are almost completely absent from the typical Russian (or Russian-Jewish) diet. My grandparents have never heard of any of these vegetables, and they never eat lettuce-based salad; for them, salad is usually some sort of combination of cucumbers, tomatoes, and sour cream. So, trying to convert their eating habits has proven to be a difficult and frankly, completely futile effort.

I also like their Food Advisor tool, which determines your most likely nutritional needs, and makes appropriate recommendations, based on a series of factors. Basically, it seems that if you really try to meet your daily requirements for fruits and vegetables, you will have very little room and time to consume anything else, especially junky snacks.