What Americans get wrong about healthy eating — and there’s a simple fix, according to a nutrition scientist

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Nutrition pro says Americans may be making healthy eating more complicated than it needs to be

Living a healthy lifestyle is not as complicated as many Americans make it out to be, according to a nutrition scientist, who says people shouldn’t try to be perfect but should focus on gradually improving their diet day by day.

“It is simpler than people think,” Christopher Gardner, Ph.D., a nutrition scientist at Stanford University and author of the book”Food Sense: What to Eat and Why,” told Fox News Digital.

He believes that the 80/20 rule is a solid framework for a healthy diet. The approach encourages people to make nutritious food choices about 80% of the time while allowing flexibility for indulgences the remaining 20%.

Gardner also works with the Stanford Prevention Research Center, where a big part of his role is trying to figure out how to get people to follow guidelines that “everybody knows” but doesn’t necessarily follow, such as eating a healthier diet, exercising more and…

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