There are so many lists that just don’t seem to understand the concept of flavour and unfortunately a recent post on one of my favourite health sites, One Big Health Nut, just doesn’t get it either. It asks you to replace bad things with slightly better things, but unfortunately you have to deal with the well known side effects: healthy things usually don’t taste as good.

One thing it mentions is to replace regular soda with diet soda. Unfortunately, I can’t drink diet soda due to the chemical sweeteners that they use causing me headaches.

Have you ever tried those healthy cereal bars? They are horrible. I will take most granola bars any day.

Other ones that it mentions aren’t really that much of an improvement, and with some the improvement is negated by the average portion sizes that people take of the alternative versus the original.

There are some good pieces of advice in there. Eating skinless chicken is a very smart way to cut some fat and some calories without losing any chicken goodness, especially if you cook the outside to be a little crispy. I also recommend switching to 1% Milk rather than the 2% that they mention. Normal whole milk has 3.25% milk fat, and even reducing that to 2%, if you can’t deal with the lack of sweetness in the 1% milk could save you some calories.

There is a lot of good advice out there, but none of it really deals with the special circumstances or needs of the individual.