The way diets usually get talked about these days, simply asking a fundamental question like how to eat healthy can seem a little naive, slightly entry-level. It's easy to feel like you should be immediately considering something extreme, like intermittent fasting or counting macros, not simply pondering what's for dinner.
Yet sometimes the simplest questions are the hardest to answer. “I teach nutrition at a medical school, and every question we get is ‘How do I eat healthy?’ There’s so much mixed messaging,” says Wesley McWhorter, a trained chef, registered dietitian, and professor at the UTHealth School of Public Health in Houston.