Scanlan: Healthy eating begins in a home kitchen

In a previous life, I worked as a reporter and editor at a small city daily in central Ontario.
We were a close-knit group, so when a reporter there slowly but dramatically lost a serious amount of weight, perhaps 20 pounds in a span of months, people asked — had she shifted to a low-carb diet? Scarsdale? Was it a health issue?
No, she said. “I stopped eating lunch at restaurants.” That was it. Nothing more. By eating brown bag lunches and ditching daily, high-calorie, high-sod