By Charles Henderson When you begin a diet one of the most often heard pieces of advice is to keep a food record in which you write down every thing you eat during the day. Tracking all of the meals you consume will help you figure out which foods you will be eating as well as which foods you are not eating enough of. For example, after keeping a food record for a few days, you might see that you are not consuming very many vegetables but that you are consuming lots of sugar and bad carbohydrates....