To me, being healthy is taking an approach to life where you make choices in your food and lifestyle to achieve a good physical and mental well being.

To me, health food is food that helps you remove deficiencies and achieve physical well being.

To me, healthy food is food that helps you achieve your physical goal, be it weight loss, muscle gain or maintenance.

The definition that I believe the public is throwing around too much is that of “healthy food”. People think that “healthy food” is all about having added vitamins and minerals. Bread with added vitamin D, milk with added calcium, cereals with added iron.. They think these foods are the ones you are supposed to live off because we all know you’re supposed to eat healthy foods to be healthy.

Now my definition differs a bit. If healthy food is the food that helps you achieve your physical goal and your goal is weight loss, none of those foods are considered healthy. In fact, they are all VERY unhealthy. The opposite of what you should eat if you’re trying to lose weight.

If your goal is to gain muscle or to maintain your physique while doing daily marathons, these foods are definitely healthy for you, because they have the energy you need to achieve that physical goal.

A change of perspective is what the public needs.

Yea right!

Be fit, live free,

Matt Schifferle
http://www.Thefitrebel.com

I agree that it all depends on a point of reference, and I would add that it is entirely possible that the point of reference itself maybe also be shifting.

J

Jackie