My father was a physician and one of his specialities was diet. Weight loss. He told me just to eat well-rounded healthy meals, not to be a glutton, and walk f

My father was a physician and one of his specialities was diet. Weight loss. He told me just to eat well-rounded healthy meals, not to be a glutton, and walk for an hour a day. There's too much splitting the hairs these days. "Follow the crowd" people say: "I heard that hopping on one leg, eating a egg through the nose by sucking it in, and belching loudly in church is the best way to be healthy. This week. Next week it's going to be eating 45 tiny meals a day, somersault 5 times, click your heels three times and say "There's no place like Alpha Centauri.""