Wow. Just
wow.
Our society is so bombarded with new and inaccurate nutritional guidelines, that most people apparently have
no idea what to eat.
We try to remember new guidelines. We count calories. We look for fat, carbs, and sugar. We hunt down the latest vitamin fad. America has been bombarded with this kind of information for decades and guess what? We have an obesity epidemic now.
I believe that all this diet nonsense has served to do nothing but distract us from the real issue: that what we eat today barely resembles real food at all.
You can't live healthy by remembering a million guidelines and counting every little thing. You need one heuristic to live by. One simple rule.
One rule.
To ring them all?
No. You need one rule that will serve you well when deciding what to eat. I think ginkgo has a great example:
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The healthiset foods for you to eat are those created by nature or God. The worst ones are the ones made by man.
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Using something like this, we can see that fruit is one of the absolute
healthiest options and that it is quite disturbing to compare to something like soda or a poptart. Go look at one of these items. List off the dozens of ingredients. Ask yourself: did the humans behind these artificial or processed ingredients invent them
perfectly for human consumption. Think about how biologically complex a food is. I think you will quickly answer no.
Our species has had millions of year to adapt to the environments and the available food sources. Fruit is not new. Fruit tastes amazing raw. Therefore, I conclude fruit is probably one of the healthiest possible foods you can eat. Moderation might be required, but that goes for anything. You compared fruit to caffeine and refined sugar. How long has our species had to adapt to these two foods as compared to fruit? You can see the difference, right?
Please think on this. I really don't believe our current dietary attitude is getting us anywhere when these kinds of conclusions are drawn.
I do, by the way, commend you for contemplating on your own health, your own knowledge, and drawing your own conclusions. Far too many people never do this.