Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy. I hate to give away the game right here at the beginning of a long story.
But will go ahead and add a couple more details to flesh out the advice. Like: A little meat won’t kill you, though it’s better approached as a side dish than as a main. And you’re much better off eating whole fresh foods than processed food products. That’s what I mean by the recommendation to eat “food.” Once, food was all you could eat, but today there are lots of other edible foodlike substances in the supermarket. These novel products of food science often come in packages festooned with health claims, which brings me to a related rule of thumb: if you’re concerned about your health, you should probably avoid food products that make health claims. Why? Because a health claim on a food product is a good indication that it’s not really food, and food is what you want to eat.
Yep. Things are suddenly sounding a little more complicated, aren’t they? Sorry. But that’s how it goes as soon as you try to get to the bottom of the whole vexing question of food and health. Before long, a dense cloud bank of confusion moves in. Sooner or later, everything solid you thought you knew about the links between diet and health gets blown away in the gust of the latest study.
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actually this is nothing new, all of us are confused. My mom was always telling me to not eat chocolate. Now some are advocating the Chocolate therapy. Or don't drink alcohol, but if you so much like it, a glass or two of red wine it's not a problem. Go figure whats right or wrong...
I think, the secret is in balancing what you eat. Little bit of every think it won't harm you. A friend of mine, that I admire, has a very simple solution: she eats all kinds of food, but only the half portion. And even if we are at her favorite Applebees, she eats only half and pushes the rest away. I must admit, it works for her, as she is over fifty, but looks 35.
Why the meal should be unhappy? There are soooo many recipes for healthy cooking and many of them are just delicious. If you are convinced what's good for you to eat, follow systematically and by the time will get use to a healthy eating plan. Until few years ago pork was a big part of out family meals, but since we moved to Dubai it gradually disappeared from my shopping list. I never found the meat that tested as back home.You know, pork is not easily available in Dubai, let alone the freshness... Now even when we go back home for the holidays, the kids don't like to eat pork, but stick to chicken.
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