The effortless way to a healthy diet

[hkalchemy]

We are endlessly compelled to listen to what is healthy and unhealthy, and it seems that the advice is constantly changing. The dietary advice offered by doctors a few decades ago would probably seen as (quite literally) a recipe for disaster today, and perhaps today’s advice will fare no better with the passage of time.

We have, perhaps, gone too far. It seems to me that we are taking ‘healthy living’ all a bit too seriously. I’m not suggesting that we shouldn’t take care of our health, but to worry about it excessively, to spend too much of our time thinking about it and to make ourselves miserable in the process is just as unhealthy as not taking any trouble to look after ourselves.

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[funchy]

Thanks for your post! I enjoyed reading the article.

The author does have some good points. Some people fret about every meal and every ingredient. It can turn into an obsession sometimes. Or we get polarized and eat "healthy" in huge quantities, still wondering our weight keeps increasing.

However I do disagree when the author calls the melamine situation in milk a "scare". It was an intentionally added toxin that has killed a number of infants. It does not belong in any milk for any reason. Some "scares" are real things which really will hurt us if we as consumers don't act.

Maybe we'd worry less if as a country we were more educated to begin with? I got very little of my food education from the public school I attended. They talked about food pyramids and eating my veggies, but that wan't really helpful. Unless we take an active role in searching out information, we're going to blindly buy whatever food is on the market as look as the box says "healthy". There is alot of fraud in the food industry. What I mean by that is that companies don't think twice about calling a horrible choice "healthy". I've seen "double cheeseburger with bacon w/low carb bread" on menus as "healthy"?! Our food is so refined, preserved, and enginnered it's not even "food" anymore.