For health expert and cookbook author Rose Reisman, learning to eat well came out of necessity.
"My family is eastern European, so we ate a lot of meat and potatoes when I was growing up," she says. "I was an overweight child and I watched a lot of my family members die young of complications from diabetes and heart disease." Although she took up running in her 20s, Reisman admits she continued to eat poorly—until the day her doctor told her she had high cholesterol. "After that, I wanted to live by example," she says.
In 1993, she released her first book on light cooking. Now, 19 cookbooks later, the chef and motivational speaker has recently introduced a children's lunch program at her catering company. The nut-free facility delivers meals to 22 schools across the Greater Toronto Area, feeding about 500-600 kids a day. "My philosophy is to give kids what they want—it's essentially fast food made healthy. We deliver grilled cheese, hamburgers, things like that."
So, what does Reisman offer as one of her soundest pieces of advice when it comes to living well? "Eat like a king in the morning, a prince in the afternoon and a pauper at night," she says. "You should always wake up hungry, otherwise it means you're eating too late at night."
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