GOOD foods and BAD foods

Is the term good food and bad meaningless? And what does that mean for the so

called super foods?

Many ‘nutritionists’ bang on and on about ‘good’ foods and ‘bad’ food. In my opinion they’re just plain wrong to do this.

The reason is simple: how can any food be good or bad when you don’t know how much of this is being eaten? Is one greasy burger eaten in a fast food place going to effect my health or fitness a year later? No clearly not.

By demonising certain foods you take the focus off the really important factor:

WHOLE DIET.

Yes a good whole diet won’t contain that many ‘bad’ foods but on the flip side you can put together a very poor diet that is based on exclusively ‘good’ foods, yes even (*shudder*) ’superfoods’.

It bares repeating:

There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ foods just good or bad diets

Diets can be ‘good’ or ‘bad’ depending upon if they’re suitable or unsuitable for your health and fitness levels, your goals and finally your lifestyle.

The Omnivores 100: strange foods from around the world

The Omnivores 100 is a blog doing the rounds at the moment. It goes like this: below is a list of 100 foods from around thew world: ‘good’ foods, ‘bad’ foods, weird and wonderful foods. You copy and paste them into your blog and mark down the ones you have eaten (bold) and ones you wouldn’t consider eating (crossed through) and blog it.

So which ones have you eaten?

I’d consider eating any of the ones below but in bold are ones I have actually tried:

(run cursor over the names for some definition or examples)

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile Read more..