It’s important, health nuts and dieticians will tell you, to eat simpler. Try to eat locally sourced food, goes the advice, and choose foods that are minimally processed. The fewer the ingredients, the better, experts will tell you, so check the list of ingredients on every box or bag or frozen package of food you buy.

That’s tiresome and bossy advice, I know, and it always seems to end up with someone suggesting that the key to overall health is crouching down every day and eating the front lawn, bugs and all. That’s the extreme end of all of this nutritional advice, I admit, but then we live in extreme times. You know how it goes: First they offer some sensible advice about a healthy diet, and before you know it, they’re grinding up crickets into some kind of burger and telling you to eat it and like it.