Eating Healthy

             

Eating Healthy

Perusing just 3 magazines that happen to be on hand, I’ve been informed by expert nutritionists, physicians, and research studies that oranges, cumin, zinc, cinnamon, tomatoes, cabbage, green tea, dark chocolate, red wine, white wine,

Spinach, curcumin, corn, and pomegranates will all help you live a longer and healthier life by providing nutrients of various sorts that protect from a variety of ailments and illnesses.

  Do any of these foods have any protein in them? We all know protein is a must. The magazines I read next week at the dentist’s office or in the coffee shop will – and have – added a number of other things to lower the risk of more disease processes. If I buy all of the supplements and eat all of the recommended amounts of spinach, corn, cabbage, etc., I’ll be stuffed without any protein on the plate at all – even if the weekly budget covered all of it. Even if eating that much didn’t make me nauseated and bloated and miserable. Even if the next issues of the publications didn’t add some more food and beverage.

Only the recommended amount of dark chocolate seems reasonable.

What was interesting is that once again coffee is in favor. Hurrah!

A very famous radio personality said in a speech that in his long career he had learned not to embrace all of the latest published research until time proved its worth. He used coffee as an example. Over a 10 year period he saved a number of articles put out by credible sources that did a complete reversal on whether coffee was good or bad for you. Coffee bad, coffee good, maybe coffee not good for blood pressure, coffee intake lowers risk of gall bladder disease, and so it went.

That was thirty years ago.

Maybe we need to use our common sense? All of our bodies are different, we are unique individuals even in our physical make-up. What is right for me may not be right for you.

Excuse me. My low caffeine, cinnamon coffee is ready.