These are very healthy foods and I think it's great to encourage people to eat them.
It's also important though to encourage people to diversify your diet. Sometimes focusing on the "best" foods can be misleading because what's really needed is diversity. Most fruits and vegetables are healthy and different ones have different nutrients and phytochemicals.
For example, instead of eating just bananas, eat a banana one time, then next time eat an orange, next time an apple, next time grapes, a kiwi, strawberry. Better yet, eat with people and cut all of them up and mix them up. This way you maximize the benefits by diversifying your diet so you're more likely to get all the nutrients you need. In summer, eat what's in season, or better yet, grow it yourself, if you have space in your yard!
For another example, instead of just eating salmon, eat salmon one time, sardines the next, herring the next...and buy fish that is sustainably produced if possible, using seafood watch. Farmed salmon is not only less healthy but is also damaging ecologically...sometimes those canned sardines are about the healthiest fish you can get, or other wild-caught fatty fish low on the food chain.
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These are very healthy foods and I think it's great to encourage people to eat them.
It's also important though to encourage people to diversify your diet. Sometimes focusing on the "best" foods can be misleading because what's really needed is diversity. Most fruits and vegetables are healthy and different ones have different nutrients and phytochemicals.
For example, instead of eating just bananas, eat a banana one time, then next time eat an orange, next time an apple, next time grapes, a kiwi, strawberry. Better yet, eat with people and cut all of them up and mix them up. This way you maximize the benefits by diversifying your diet so you're more likely to get all the nutrients you need. In summer, eat what's in season, or better yet, grow it yourself, if you have space in your yard!
For another example, instead of just eating salmon, eat salmon one time, sardines the next, herring the next...and buy fish that is sustainably produced if possible, using seafood watch. Farmed salmon is not only less healthy but is also damaging ecologically...sometimes those canned sardines are about the healthiest fish you can get, or other wild-caught fatty fish low on the food chain.
February 15, 2011 - 7:14amThis Comment
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