Constance Oyibo knew exactly what she should be eating. She had known for years. She was eating toast, because cooking for one is a specific kind of bleak.
Nothing is weighed in front of anyone. Most of the group time is spent on what went badly, which is the part that generalises.
Protein and total intake are the two levers that matter most in older adults, and both point in the opposite direction to most public messaging about eating.
We kept solving a knowledge problem that nobody had. The problem was that eating alone is grim.
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The elimination phase is time-limited and supervised, because a restricted diet held indefinitely creates a second problem while solving the first.
A shared lunch twice a week did more than four years of advice. “It isn’t about the food,” she says.
