How should you eat food?

That's an easy answer. Eat whenever you feel like it, right? No. You are so wrong. (if you said eat when you're supposed to, yippee.)

You eat at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. That doesn't mean at 9:00 am, 1:00 pm, and 8:00 pm. It means at 7:00 am, 12:00 pm, and at...wait for it... 6:00 pm. Is that dinner time outrageous? Too early? Well, it's not. If you eat at 8:00, it's too late.

Here's the info behind that. There's a Chinese saying: "eat a full breakfast, eat a good lunch, eat a small dinner." It rhymes in Chinese though. What they're saying is, eat whatever at breakfast. Be stuffed. You won't gain weight. Eat an OK lunch, so be almost full. And for dinner, eat a little. Almost like a snack, but enough so that you aren't hungry later the night. The reason you don't want to eat too much at dinner is 'cuz your stomach is not as active. It is still digesting, but not at it's prime time, so if you eat a great big feast for dinner, guess what? When you go to sleep, your stomach is still slowly digesting. This can cause nightmares while you sleep. Also, your stomach may take a break too, at night. You've got some food slowly fermenting in your stomach. EWWWW.

Don't make yourself a fermenting vat. Eat an earlier/smaller dinner, and you could even lose extra weight!

For those of you who just can't let go of that annoying 15 pounds, and you are skipping meals, skip dinner. Don't skip breakfast.

No, this isn't a weight loss blog, but just so you know.

Back to eating food. When you eat, I say, eat. Don't watch tv. Don't read a book. Focus on your food and eat. If you multitask, your eating experience will not be as good, and you probably won't be paying attention to what you eat. Think, eating chips in front of the TV.

Next thing: eat when you're supposed to. Don't snack. Snacking is the devil. You think, "oh, I only ate some crackers for breakfast, so I suppose I can have this candy bar. And I only had chips and gatorade at lunch, so I'll have 2 cheese wedges with crackers when I get home. I think these tortilla chips look good, I'll have some queso. I only had rice for dinner, I'll get some popcorn at the movies."

You see what I mean? You're eating all this junk food, and you are still hungry. So eat at your meals.

Maybe Ye Family will tell you about cancer prevention today.