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Mastering Nutrition Like a Skill

4 min readMar 29, 2025

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If you want to improve your relationship with food, change your body composition, or feel better daily, here’s a radical idea:

Start treating nutrition like a skill.

Not a diet. Not a one-time reset. Not a temporary fix. But an actual, learnable skill. Because that’s what it is.

Think about the top performers in any domain — athletes, musicians, creators. What do they all have in common? They practice. They show up daily. They refine the basics until they become second nature.

Your eating habits deserve the same approach.

The good news is that you already have countless opportunities to practice. You eat multiple times a day. That’s three to five chances — minimum — to get a little better.

But nutrition isn’t a simple skill. It’s a complex one made up of several smaller, trainable parts. That’s where most people go wrong. They try to overhaul everything all at once. The better path is to break it down and practice the pieces.

Here are six foundational skills that lay the groundwork for long-term success with food, health, and body composition.

1. Slow Down When You Eat

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In Fitness And In Health
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Tony U. Francisco, Ph.D
Tony U. Francisco, Ph.D

Written by Tony U. Francisco, Ph.D

Writer, Thinker, Performer, Leader, Coach | Performance and Organizational Psychology | https://bio.site/trainoutwork

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