(CC BY-ND 2.0) Nancy Hugo, CKD/Flickr The American kitchen is a key contributor to America’s lofty obesity rate according to many dietitians and other healthy eating experts. You may very well respond, “Well, duh! Of course. The kitchen is where the food is! You want to lose weight, stay the heck out of your kitchen.” But it’s not that simple. For one thing, meals produced in your kitchen tend to be healthier, more nutritious, and lower in calories than meals produced commercially, especially those from establishments with drive-thru service. You have far more control over what goes into meals that you produce yourself. While this is not a good thing in every case, at least it usually doesn’t involve