If you browse around the cyber-inter-web-o-sphere and look around for ‘healthy nutrition’ information you’ll likely find a big list of “items to avoid”.
Here are some of the common ones I can think of off the top of my head:
Saturated Fat
Trans Fat
Sugar
Artificial Sweeteners
Genetically Modified Anything (which is ridiculous considering about 80% of the modern food supply has some level of modification…these people are living in a fantasy world)
High Fructose Corn Syrup
Non Local Foods (the 100 mile diet people think it’s possible to eat just from their local area…with no conception of how impossible this is from an economic standpoint)
Red Meat
Butter
Refined White Flour (or anything that is made with white flour)
I’m guessing you recognize most of the items on this list and have heard or read somewhere why each one is “bad for you”.
So whats left to eat?
Some veggies, maybe a bit of fruit…perhaps an egg white…
But even too many of one type of veggie could cause a problem if nothing more than some serious gastro intestinal discomfort.
The point is that none of these things are bad at a manageable dose.
The issue with most foods is never the food itself, it’s always the dose.
A teaspoon of sugar in your coffee just makes it a really tasty coffee.
Consuming pounds of sugar on a weekly basis in the form of sweet snacks, dressings, baked goods etc…now you’re asking for diabetes.
Just remember that the devil is always in the dose never in the food itself.
John
