There’s no shortage of nutrition advice—that’s for sure! The near daily headlines encouraging you to eat more of this and less of that, to advertisements that promote more dietary supplements to prevent or cure myriad medical conditions are enough to make your head spin and make it a challenge to separate fact from fiction when it comes to nutrition and healthy eating.

When it comes to food scales, there’s low-scale and up-scale. The low-scale ($5 - $10) type postage or “diet” scales simply help you figure a food’s weight. That’s valuable information. For example, when you weigh meats, you not only zero in on the portion you should eat but you also 'see' what certain amounts of food look (and should) look like. This improves your guestimating (as I call it) skills both at home and when you eat out.

A new solve-all-your-food-problems guide and has quickly risen into to the top of the bestseller charts with the blizzard of the January weight loss frenzy. The title: Eat This, Not That by the editor of Men’s Health. Meanwhile the 3^rd edition of the bestselling title Eat Out, Eat Right authored, once again, by yours truly is hot off the press.