And breakfast is the gateway to improving health. Healthy eating can start with breakfast. Just follow these basic guidelines:

• Savory not sweet
• Use what is in season
• Eat when hungry, not right away
• Use meat as flavor, not as the star of the show
• Use high quality, flavorful ingredients because a little can go a long way
• Expand the possibilities away from the boxed cereal, processed food
• Make batches that can store for the week (I like to soak a batch of steel-cut oatmeal overnight)

By following these guidelines, you can make breakfast the most important meal of the day. These tools can be expanded to all the meals of the day as you cook to control pain. To read more about an anti-inflammatory diet, I recommend a book by Dr. Andrew Weil. Food really can be a form of medicine and part of your pain treatment program.