My advice is a bit more meta, short, and simple compared to what I'm reading in the comments so far. Rather than bullets, or steps, I'll go with ranking:
1. Follow the advice in the rest of these comments. Summary: Eat good food and exercise. This is actually obvious, often repeated and boring advice.
2. This is my real golden nugget: Stop eating. Take a step back from all of this constant debate on nutrition. Calorie in calorie out is actually true, but the real hack is the fact that you don't need to eat. Intermittent fasting is also common advice, but go ahead, go even further.
*For either option, Drink water. Lots of it. Good quality water. Don't drink other stuff (some coffee, tea, okay). Water is love. Water is life. Often repeated but not stressed enough, and a major source of many issues.*
Anorexia is a problem, but it is not a common problem and is not something that should be worth preventing people from acknowledging that fasting is okay, humans have uniquely evolved to do it, and in general it's a much easier solution. I think it's okay for young people to try out not eating, but absolutely they should be encouraged and taught to do #1 instead, with an emphasis on the downsides of bad nutrition and physical health. A bigger problem than anorexia is the historical political and corporate motivation to make us eat more and often and don't stop eating, which is probably a major contributor to the obesity epidemic (probably global pollution as well).
1. Follow the advice in the rest of these comments. Summary: Eat good food and exercise. This is actually obvious, often repeated and boring advice.
2. This is my real golden nugget: Stop eating. Take a step back from all of this constant debate on nutrition. Calorie in calorie out is actually true, but the real hack is the fact that you don't need to eat. Intermittent fasting is also common advice, but go ahead, go even further.
*For either option, Drink water. Lots of it. Good quality water. Don't drink other stuff (some coffee, tea, okay). Water is love. Water is life. Often repeated but not stressed enough, and a major source of many issues.*
Anorexia is a problem, but it is not a common problem and is not something that should be worth preventing people from acknowledging that fasting is okay, humans have uniquely evolved to do it, and in general it's a much easier solution. I think it's okay for young people to try out not eating, but absolutely they should be encouraged and taught to do #1 instead, with an emphasis on the downsides of bad nutrition and physical health. A bigger problem than anorexia is the historical political and corporate motivation to make us eat more and often and don't stop eating, which is probably a major contributor to the obesity epidemic (probably global pollution as well).