| Finding healthy food, eating it, and living a long life | | | | dollop of hydroxypropylmethelcellulose, you shouldn't |
| because of doing so isn't science fiction. It is, however, | | | | eat anything that has those ingredients in them. It's not |
| science. Everyone tries to give you advice on how to | | | | healthy. Food eating should fill you with ingredients that |
| eat right, but the simple fact is that almost no-one | | | | are created by nature, not by a lab. |
| understands what happens inside your body when you | | | | 4) There are only 2 food groups: things that move, and |
| buy healthy food and eat it. Detail on the subject is | | | | things that grow. In other words, if it's not obviously a |
| available for the people who have to know. Those of | | | | plant or obviously an animal, don't eat it. You should try |
| you who want the simple rules with no fluff or details, | | | | to eat about equal amounts of each of the two food |
| read on. | | | | groups, and each has one additional rule to pay |
| 1) Eat whole foods. People say "whole foods" all the | | | | attention to: |
| time, but no one stops to think what that means about | | | | 5) Of the "things that move" food group, you should |
| healthy food. Eating foods that weren't grown in a lab | | | | strive to get about equal amounts of fat and protein. |
| and haven't been taken apart and put back together, | | | | This goes directly against the 'fat-is-bad' propaganda |
| that's what it means. So no dehydrated-rehydrated | | | | of the day, but it's demonstrably true. |
| potatoes, no homogenized milk, no flour, no sugar, and | | | | 6) Of the "things that grow" group, you should |
| absolutely no corn syrup, high-fructose or otherwise. | | | | deliberately eat as many different colors of plant as |
| 2) Eat foods in as close to their natural state as | | | | possible every day. Veggie colors form because of |
| possible. This sounds a lot like "eat whole foods", but | | | | different substances in the plant; each substance |
| it's a supplemental rule. Not only should your foods be | | | | represents a group of nutrients. Your body gets |
| whole, but they should be fresh, and cooked as little as | | | | nutrients from meat, but not as much as you get from |
| possible. For millions of years, humans ate what they | | | | fresh fruits and veggies, so it's important to get a |
| hunted and gathered without the benefit of stoves and | | | | variety - you don't want to overload on some nutrients |
| ovens, much less food processors and blenders. | | | | and leave others off, that's not healthy food eating. |
| Evolution hasn't had a chance to 'catch up' to modern | | | | These rules read easy, but they're tough to follow. It |
| appliances: we still digest food in the same way our | | | | helps so much to understand food in a way that |
| ancestors did. This is not to say "don't chop your red | | | | makes your body love you. Many factors, from |
| peppers" or "don't eat cheese because it's not raw | | | | societal to chemical, conspire to keep you eating a |
| milk". These are still healthy foods; eating them is just | | | | high-carbohydrate, highly-processed American diet - |
| fine. Just eat your veggies barely-steamed or your | | | | but that leads to the American midlife plagued with |
| meat almost-too-raw. Your body will get so much | | | | diabetes, heart troubles, infertility and impotence, and |
| more out of them, you'll feel the difference. | | | | even cancer. Healthy food eating can keep you alive |
| 3) Don't eat anything you can't buy. That is to say, if | | | | and feeling great. |
| you can't buy a bag of pure sodium erythorbate or a | | | | |