Gather in the Good Foods

A simple, easy-to-use guide for weekly fare

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As HWF readers may recall, a broken arm last fall turned me into a person who eats a lot of junk food. Don’t judge—having only my non-dominant hand to bring meals to my mouth left me with mostly easy-to-eat pizza. Happily, those days are now behind me, and my fully functional right hand has a dietary say.

But a different problem has confronted me, one that I bet is familiar to us all. Dietary health covers a broad spectrum of types of food, right? Well, how do we get a handle on that? Trying to pin it down in massively stocked grocery aisles is confusing.

… a super easy guide to meal planning that gets in all the good stuff

And guess what! A food plan diet exists that does it for us. This one offers a simple, super easy guide to a weekly eating plan that gets in all the good stuff. It’s called MIND and, although I had written about it a while ago, my need now sent me for another look.

Brain boosters …

Developers of MIND combined aspects of the Mediterranean Diet and DASH (designed for high blood pressure). Importantly, prominent among the developers were neurological experts. Their mission was to be sure MIND kept its focus on foods that best support brain health (and who doesn’t love that?).