MenuDirections 2012: Day 2 Photos

Painter got into how the body processes different foods to show how healthy foods work for our bodies.

“People still have this idea that you need to cut cholesterol out of your diet. [But] it really does nothing,” he said. Rather, managing the relationship between so-called bad cholesterol—LDL—and the good variety, HDL, is the real route to safer eating, Painter explained.