﻿No single food, separate from the overall quality and pattern of diet, exerts a major health effect.

There are no superfoods

Highly processed grains and added sugar are bad because they’ve been robbed of nutrients, they raise insulin levels, and they’re often high in added fats. But most plant foods are mostly carbohydrates: vegetables, fruits, whole grains, beans, lentils, nuts, and seeds, which are quite healthy. In conclusion: Carbs are not evil; junk food is evil.

Good Carbs, Bad Carbs

It's much easier to outeat running than to outrun all of the tempting calories that modern marketing encourages us to cram in. Both diet and exercise are important to health, and exercise is important in weight maintenance. But to lose weight, the preferential focus needs to be on controlling calories in, more than calories out.

To lose weight: diet>exercise

The best vegetables are likely to be fresh and locally sourced, but flash frozen is nearly as good (as freezing delays aging). Those “fresh” vegetables that spend a long time in storage or transit are probably the least nutritious.

The "Age" of vegetables

Only 10% of people have problems with tolerating gluten. About one percent of people have celiac disease, and perhaps 10 percent have lesser forms of sensitivity, which may be related to other factors, like a disrupted microbiome.

Gluten intolerance

The body detoxifies itself daily; that’s a primary job of the liver and the kidneys, and they are really good at it. The intestines, spleen, and immune system are in on it, too. Take good care of your liver and kidneys, gut, and immune system. Far better “cleanse” than any juice.

Detoxing and Cleansing are Myths

Because they are just one ingredient: avocado, lentils, blueberries, broccoli, almonds, etc.

Best foods don’t have labels

﻿...are closer to junk food than they are to real food. Many power bars have nutritional profiles similar to Snickers.

Power bars

A diet that starves the body of glucose sources so that it’s forced to burn ketone bodies — products of fat metabolism — as fuel. There is not a lot of evidence to show prolonged ketosis is good for health.

Ketogenic diet

The “best” diet is a theme: an emphasis on vegetables, fruits, whole grains, beans, lentils, nuts, seeds, and plain water for thirst. That can be with or without seafood; with or without dairy; with or without eggs; with or without some meat; high or low in total fat.

There is no "best diet" 

It's beyond strange that so many humans are clueless about how they should feed themselves. Every wild species on the planet knows how to do it; presumably ours did, too, before our oversized brains found new ways to complicate things. Now, we're the only species that can be baffled about the "right" way to eat.

Power bars

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