Okay, be honest. Who fell for that whole Super Foods marketing scheme where they started telling people about the awesomeness of blueberries, akai berries, and all that other stuff that had anti-oxidants and cancer fighting vitamins and such in it? I know there's someone out there who spent a year chugging akai berry shakes
I dunno, I started eating blueberries since I was about 17, and at 24, I don't look or feel a day older than I did then. That+my workout+the rest of my diet has been working for me. I dunno if it's the blueberries, but I see no need to rock the boat.
The foods you eat should depend on the goals for your body. There are certain foods that can supplement any goal for general health purposes. (blueberries, avocados, nuts) However I would try to eat at a caloric surplus on nothing but those foods which are considered "super."
It's been common knowledge for a long time now about the antioxidants in blueberries, etc. Our natural foods has many different health benefits in them as opposed to the frozen, instant crap you buy in the store, which has nothing but additives, preservatives, chemicals and a ton of sodium.
Yeah, but not really to any appreciable extent, and they certainly aren't super foods in the sense that any other type of food isn't. It has been argued, and believably to my end, that the American food system and similar ones like it around the world, is practically flooded in things one could only arguably classify as food. A portion of our diet or what makes up our diet has actually been outlawed in other countries. This leads the US to, quite humorously, calling plain old natural foods, "Super Foods".
My super food are eggs. They are perfect and contain all goodness. I really don't know this, but tell myself it and eat two a day.
I am on a quest to lose weight , when I eat mostly fruit and veggies I lose , so far I haven't noticed if one fruit rules over another !
Lol. Perhaps. But the problem is where those eggs came from and how they were made. Drugs are given to stock animals in order to make them grow bigger and faster so that they can be sold. In addition to that, they are given questionable feed. All of this goes into that egg you are eating, a while you don't necessarily fall over and die after eating one, the question is whether their is a long-term connection between this heavily drugged and manipulated food we eat and the diseases most American's face as early as age 40. Me, I love eggs. I am as suspicious as hell of them, but with the same or similar problem surrounding so much of the food, I'm trapped. I either eat or starve.
It's not necessarily the food that will help you, alone. I know for a fact because I was once a bit chubby, but you have to exercise. You body simply won't do anything with the weight you have unless you undergo sustained starvation, or you begin to push your body physically to where it has no choice but to break its habit and burn the reserves. You could view it as an embargo against your body, lol. A forced negotiation.
I know right. I buy the expensive ones, organic range fed. I do not trust the labeling though. Been working on a chicken coop for about two years know, one of my many "i will get it done someday" projects.
Yeah, you really can't. You remember back when they didn't have %100 natural written on everything. Then, after a few of these labels popped up, almost everything has the label. I remember telling some one it won't be long before they come out with %100 percent natural beer labels, or Calcium Plus Budweiser's or something. Besides, that whole %100 percent natural thing has been proven to be farcical at times as well. Through some kind of word play and legal hack, they can legally put that label on things that actually are not natural. But they won't make me hate my food, (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*).
A lot depends on your body-type and your metabolism as well. Some folks seem to be more prone to layer on the fat while others aren't. My grandma had a saying "Some folks eat to live...Others live to eat." I think the best way to lose weight is to do some kind of exercise in the morning to get your heart rate up and then eat a responsible meal afterwards. Your metabolism will have been sped up and the protein will be used to build up muscle tissue. Go ahead and eat blueberries they are good for your eyesight. British pilots used to eat 'bilberries' (their word for blueberries) before night flights during WWII.
Any kind of natural food is better than processed food. A good rule of thumb is: if you can't pronounce it don't eat it.. If a food has a lot of additives leave it on the shelf.
