October 21st, 2010

A local Philadelphia man, Bob Kay, 79, no longer eats 3 meals a day. Instead, he grazes by eating a wide variety of food 15-20 times throughout the day. He feels great and is healthier because of the transition.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports:

Bob Kay was not planning to reform his diet. He was just lazy.Fourteen years ago, when a live-in relationship broke up, Kay became a full-fledged bachelor. Making big meals for himself was too tedious and time-consuming, so the busy psychiatrist began feeding himself by nibbling, noshing, and grazing. In short order, the practice became habitual.

Today, Kay, 79, who lives in the Society Hill Towers, has completely forsaken the conventional three squares a day. Instead, he eats 15 to 20 times a day, grazing and nibbling in the manner of our primordial ancestors.

He eats a wide range of foods – vegetables, fruits, grains, seeds, nuts, meat, and fish – and his diet is based on no particular model or principle other than eating what he likes.

“I eat what primates eat,” Kay says. “I eat a good deal of protein because that’s what monkeys are supposed to do.”

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