Meal Planning and Calories

I am not actually one for counting calories.  In fact, I avoid it all costs.  I don't like thinking about the numbers and the potential related fat cells that they entail.

However, I think that for many middle school and high school students, this would be a good way to count calories.  In a fast-paced and ready-made food lifestyle, this would be a good way to count them.

But on the flip side, I think that eating healthy is more a matter of eating more natural foods rather than eating foods with fewer or better calories.  The closer you eat it in the form that God made it, the better it is for you (obviously this does not apply to meat...).