Eggs, coffee and potatoes are among the foods health experts think get a bad rap for bad reasons.
Eggs, potatoes, coffee: These kitchen staples, among others, have gained bad reputations, nutrition experts say, but don’t necessarily deserve it. In fact, registered dietitians, doctors and nutrition professors are increasingly advising people to eat them.
Nutrition advice is ever changing, which can leave consumers uncertain about which foods are actually healthy. NBC News asked nine health experts about the foods they think have been wrongly villainized. Here are some of the items they listed and the benefits people may miss out on if they forgo them entirely.
If potatoes were so bad then how did the Irish survive for 300 years on em?
Seriously? Who the fuck shit talks potatoes?
A lot of people see potatoes as a vehicle for saturated fats - butter, sour cream, bacon, cheese. Potatoes are fine but toppings can be unhealthy.
People who don’t like white carbs.
Why they gotta be WHITE carbs?
Because sweet potato is the vegetable GOAT.
Love the info here, Ill add what they say about not looking at single foods in isolation and making a balanced diet is necessery. Psychologically you’re going to have cravings for certain foods, denying your cravings can lead to binging when you finally do give in. Find healthy ways to satiate them. For example I crave sweets especially ice cream butn a good Greek Yogurt with zero sugar added hits the spot. Eggs and Avocado are amazing if you’re craving something ‘greasy’
It’s so hard to find a good full-fat, no added sugar yogurt. All the low-fat crap is loaded with sugar so that it actually tastes like anything. Recommend any brands?
depends where you live. i have some local brands that are really nice but due to their scale will only be found in a few counties in my state. most of the really great dairy you will find will be from locally owned dairies, the fresher and less processed the milk the better.
Fage would probably be found in a lot of places as it’s a larger brand and i don’t think they add sugars to their plain yogurt. main thing to look for is that it says whole milk yogurt and/or no added sugars.
Around my area, I have stony field organic probiotic yogurt. It contains whole milk, culture, vitamin d, and pectin, and nothing else. (Idgaf about organic, but I wanted full fat probiotic, zero sugar. It’s not cheap, but my instant pot has a yogurt setting so I can just make more.)
That brand may not be available by you, but if you look for a multi-probiotic yogurt (multiple strains; this variety has 6), you’ll be more likely to find something good, in my experience.
For full fat no unfortunately I dont. Oikos triple zero works for me in a pinch and it’s avalibe everywhere, fat free milk though. Has some naturally occuring sugars but none added. There are a few non flavored varieties you can full fat no sugar from Stonyfield and Fage and such but I’m not sure if thats what your looking for.
Sigis Low Sugar has I think 3g sugar and is full fat, the absence of sweetness in a flavored yogurt is something to get used to though. Wallaby has some good low (but not zero) sugar full fat options. Ratio Keto is tasty if you don’t mind sucralose (splenda).
If the eggs you’re eating, the coffee beans you’re grinding, potatoes you’re growing are done with responsible practices, organic, and preferably from small scale farms (generally how things ought to be if giant corporations weren’t involved in our food), these things wouldn’t be perceived this way at all.
Please explain what makes “organic” vegetables healthier, because you’ll win a Nobel prize for the work if you find evidence confirming any actual health benefits.
People often use the word organic where they should be using sustainable. We need to avoid the cut down more forest after the patch of cut down forest that was being worked becomes infertile a few years later. And we need to assure pesticides and fertilizer are well regulated and prevented from over use and run off. But sadly, as “organic” is now more marketing term than anything else, we need to stop using the word.
Organic was never anything but a marketing term. I agree that we need better farming practices as well as an iverhaul of what we grow, especially in the US. Taking the billions soent on feed grain subsidies and using the money to pivot farmers to actual food for people.
Both false and irrelevant, well done.
I’ll start.
- A lack of cancer causing pesticides, fungicides, and herbicides
Organic farming still uses all of those. 👍
Isn’t the article about nutrition?
