Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Easy as pie.

Nutrition 101: The One Rule to Remember (from the Modern Forager):

EAT REAL FOOD.


Let’s keep it simple: Eat real foods, preferably in their natural state. I think it’s pretty easy to figure out what is “food” and what isn’t. A few things to remember:
  • Food grows and dies. It isn’t created.
  • Food rots, wilts, and becomes generally unappetizing, typically rather quickly.
  • Food doesn’t need an ingredient label (and probably isn’t in a package either).
  • Food doesn’t have celebrity endorsements.
  • Food doesn’t make health claims.

Let’s give some foods this simple test and see if we should eat them:

  • Broccoli - Most certainly a real food
  • Steak - Deliciously real food, straight off the cow
  • Oreo cookies - Hold while I read the ingredients. Are you serious?
  • Eggs - Bingo
  • Walnuts - Check
  • Spaghetti - I don’t recall seeing a spaghetti tree on my last hike
  • Pop-Tarts - Just seeing if you’re paying attention
  • Pasteurized/Homogenized Milk - Nope, not in its natural state
  • Raw Milk - Yep, real food, naturally
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It's so easy, but today's society wants to make it so difficult. Stop playing into the hype! Real food will put you into the best state in your life.

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