unit 2 healthy eating for healthy eating, bitter is better 1. eat more bitter foods. we're all born with an aversion to bitterness, but our levels of sensitiv ity vary greatly. some kids will eat broccoli from the get-go. it may taste one-third as bitter to t hem as it does t o the child who tests your very last nerve at the dinner table. you can u sually tel l who is the tolerant taster (that is, the one with the less sensitive palate) and who is the hy per taster ('i only eat white foods'), b ut you can coach and nurture them both into being open-minded eaters. 2. try something new. at a restaurant, order something you would never cook at home. instead of recoiling at the smell of something foreign and pungent, get to know it better. i used to abhor the very smell of canned tuna. that was before i landed a cann ed-tuna client and had to taste it every week for four years. these days i'm an aficionado of good (healthy) tuna. 3. do a hated horizontal. pick a foo d that you hate but know you shou ld eat more often, and teach yourself a bit about it. by sampling across a whole category of food─beans, for instance, if they are your most hated food─you are more likely to notice and appreciate the differences in textures, colors, flavors, tastes. wine tasters call this a horizontal tasting. find your least-hated bean and eat them once a day for a week. at the end of the week, if you still hate them, you're free to take a pass. 健康饮食还需多吃“苦” 1. 多吃苦味食物。我们大家生来都不喜欢苦味，但是我们的敏感度存在巨大 差异。有些儿童一开始就愿意吃 西兰花，他们所感觉到的西兰花的苦味可能相当于在饭桌上让你忍无可忍的孩子所感觉到的苦味的三分之一。我们通常都能分辨出谁是不挑食的人（也就是味蕾不那么敏感的人）、谁是极端挑食者（比如“我只吃白色食品”的人），不仅如此，我们还能对这两种人进行训练，把他们都培养为毫不挑食的人。
