worlds healthiest food?

[kuhliloach]

i've been getting more interested in my health lately and have been wondering overall, what's the worlds healthiest food. i hear great things about Goji berries, acai berries, figs, yerba mate, hemp seed, etc. but i was wondering if there was anything else i might not know about,


thanks!

[msjinkzd]

definately bacon! lol, j/k

[Bitsy]

definately bacon! lol, j/k

LMAO!! I wish bacon was the healthiest food!

[Slappy*McFish]

Fish

[Radar]

spirulina,almonds,sunflower seeds,pumpkin seeds

[kuhliloach]

can a mod please change the title to worlds healthiest food?

[msjinkzd]

sure, but only if you let me pretend that things like bacon and scrapple are healthy!

[kuhliloach]

ok

[eroomlorac]

Don't forget flax seed, soy.

[kuhliloach]

since flax has omega 3, what doees omega 3 do?

[Sploke]

BEER

[Lupin]

BEER
Matt, it's a drink.:confused:

[kuhliloach]

BEER

did you mean red wine?

[equus_peduus]

An egg. Remember, that it has everything in it to get a young bird through the beginning of its life. It thus has the perfect mix of proteins, vitamins, minerals, the right kinds of fats... Excellent. Milk is pretty good too.

[The Zigman]

you sure Beer isn't food? its got everything I need in it to get me through another Monday... Barley, hops, malt...

What about Pistachios?

[Mgamer20o0]

in n out

[eroomlorac]

I believe Omega 3's help lower the bad cholesterol (LDL) and help raise the good cholesterol (HDL). So does excercise.

[Sploke]

An egg. Remember, that it has everything in it to get a young bird through the beginning of its life. It thus has the perfect mix of proteins, vitamins, minerals, the right kinds of fats...



Yes..the perfect mix for young birds....which humans are not.

[crazycanuck]

i dotn think there can be a healthiest food. to much of anything is bad,and you need variety in your diet. just make sure that variety is healthy lol

[crazycanuck]

Yes..the perfect mix for young birds....which humans are not.

some people eat raw eggs every morning and claim it makes them feel more awake and gives them more anergy and they feel all around better. im not up for eating raw eggs however,but i eat a bunch of egg sometimes after working out and i do notice a differance the next day ie; ammount of pain in muscles worked out.. my 125 pound friend actually ate raw eggs last week at my house because his goal is to beat the gr.9 bench press record at our school,hes at 205,which is the record so he needs 210 to beat it.not sure yet if the rocky style eggs helped or not.....

[J double R]

the worlds healthiest diet is a diet balanced in all nutrients, including fats and sugars.


eating things like hemp and other pure-fiber foods isnt going to get you anything but malnourishment in some other form. :)

[KuchDaddy]

Hikari Wafers

[FL22]

There probably is a worlds healthiest food, but you wouldn't be able to eat just that to survive. If you are concerned about your health you need to have a balanced diet. Just follow the food pyramid...and counting calories.

[Madcrawdad]

soylent green is supposed to be really healthy for you...

[ILOVEBETTAS]

wolfberries

[SchizotypalVamp]

I agree with Soylent Green.

But seriously, you should also look at your metabolism. I am fine with a lower protein, higher fat and fiber diet. My fiance needs high protein low fat and fiber. Eating a combination of healthy foods, including all the ones listed, or none of them, in the way that fits your body is probably the healthiest thing to do.

[kuhliloach]

the worlds healthiest diet is a diet balanced in all nutrients, including fats and sugars.


eating things like hemp and other pure-fiber foods isnt going to get you anything but malnourishment in some other form. :)

I understand that there's no miracle food that you can live off of for the rest of your life but the point was yes a balanced diet of the healthiest foods or foods with many or the most of nutrients. i hear about people in some foreign countries who supposedly live over 150 years old and some of the healthiest foods come from those areas.

[j_chicago]

Yeah, I believe homemade Chinese is the healthiest.

[Easydoesit]

i never knew people could live to be 150. throw me a link if you have one, i wanna read/see that

[Sploke]

Probably the healthiest thing you can do is buy no processed food - buy only fresh food and cook everything yourself. Don't buy anything from the middle of the grocery store, the only thing you get to eat is the stuff around the outside. Of course, it turns into pretty much a full time job preparing each and every meal from scratch...

[Easydoesit]

but a well worth it full time job. theres quick and easy ways to cook or prepare a lot of healthy foods though

[IceH2O]

It costs to much to eat healthy. My life expectancy isn't worth the money.I don't want to live past 90.

The only way to eat healthy is to buy stuff without preservatives and added chemicals.

[SchizotypalVamp]

Yeah, I've heard the record is set at 120 right now. I wonder how much of it is nature and nuture. Some of my relatives in the Carribean had trouble in their 60s and 70s and died. My oldest uncle is getting wonderful medical care and seems to be doing fine, and he's in his 70s. One of my great uncles lived to be 110, and he lived before the Indians had any say in what the British did with them.

[Easydoesit]

true it is expensive to eat healthy all the time. especially because even unhealthy food prices are going up. healthy foods have always been more expensive.
wouldnt it be weird if someone had the money to replace all their organs and live through it and constantly get plastic surgery to look young? like an almost immortal person.

[feemia]

I've been collecting "healthiest foods" type articles for years, and (yes I'm a dork) I have a summary on my computer at home. I'll post it this evening.

[Rbishop]

More beer....

[wataugachicken]

it's liquid bread, it's good for you.

[jm1212]

blue berries.

every 250 you eat adds a year on your life.

granted, its not going to be fun for a few days after eating like 1000, but hey thats 4 years extra.

:D

[legendaryfrog]

I dont think theres such a thing as the ultimate food, but rather than the ultimate mix of food.

Earlier this year, I became OBSESSED with healthy eating and whatnot. Cant really say I experienced any real body changes though.

[feemia]

This is a summary that I've compiled over the years based on 13 articles. And yes, beer, is on the list. The items in bold appear in 3 or more articles.

almonds
apples
arborio rice
artichoke
arugala, collard greens, other green leafy vegetables
avocado
bananas
beans and dried peas (legumes)
beer and wine
beets
berries
bran cereal
brewer's yeast
broccoli
brown rice
brussel sprouts, cabbage, other cruciferous veggies
cantaloupe
chicken soup
clams
cranberry
egg
flax seed
garlic
ginger
grapefruit
green tea
guava
kale
licorice root
mango
milk
oats, oatmeal
olive oil
onion
oranges
oysters
papaya
peppers
plums
polenta
pumpkin/squash
quinoa
red grapefruit
rutabagas
sardines, salmon/tuna, salmon, mackerel
sesame seed
soba noodles
spinach
strawberries
sweet potato
tofu/soy
tomato
walnuts
water
watermelon
wheat germ
whole wheat bread
yogurt, other cultured dairy products

* Sources *
Top ten nutrient all-stars among fruits and vegetables (newsletter)
Top ten health promoting foods (Robert Crayhon's "The Voice of Wellness")
The top 10 power foods of summer (Aug 97 Women's Sports + Fitness)
9 Foods you should'nt live without (Jan/Feb 98 Fitness)
6 secret super foods (Fitness)
9 Foods that fight colds (Dec 97 Runner's World)
Eat your way healthy - 14 powerful remedies14 Familiar Foods with Newfound Goodness
15 Foods You Simply Can't Overlook
The 21 Healthiest Foods
Power Foods
30 Foods that Fight Disease
6 Super Foods Every Woman Needs

[Sploke]

This is a summary that I've compiled over the years based on 13 articles. And yes, beer, is on the list.

HA!

[J double R]

"6 Super Foods Every Woman Needs"????


no, thanks. ;)

[wataugachicken]

the only things on feemia's list that surprise me are the clams and oysters. i would not have thought those were healthy, i assumed they contained a lot of pollutants.

[Sploke]

A lot of that depends on where they are collected from.

[Notophthalmus]

As far as a food that you can actually subsist on by itself, the lowly potato is probably champ. Now, it won't be the healthiest existence, but it certainly beats an all-garlic or all-arugula diet.

[kuhliloach]

This is a summary that I've compiled over the years based on 13 articles. And yes, beer, is on the list. The items in bold appear in 3 or more articles.

almonds
apples
arborio rice
artichoke
arugala, collard greens, other green leafy vegetables
avocado
bananas
beans and dried peas (legumes)
beer and wine
beets
berries
bran cereal
brewer's yeast
broccoli
brown rice
brussel sprouts, cabbage, other cruciferous veggies
cantaloupe
chicken soup
clams
cranberry
egg
flax seed
garlic
ginger
grapefruit
green tea
guava
kale
licorice root
mango
milk
oats, oatmeal
olive oil
onion
oranges
oysters
papaya
peppers
plums
polenta
pumpkin/squash
quinoa
red grapefruit
rutabagas
sardines, salmon/tuna, salmon, mackerel
sesame seed
soba noodles
spinach
strawberries
sweet potato
tofu/soy
tomato
walnuts
water
watermelon
wheat germ
whole wheat bread
yogurt, other cultured dairy products

* Sources *
Top ten nutrient all-stars among fruits and vegetables (newsletter)
Top ten health promoting foods (Robert Crayhon's "The Voice of Wellness")
The top 10 power foods of summer (Aug 97 Women's Sports + Fitness)
9 Foods you should'nt live without (Jan/Feb 98 Fitness)
6 secret super foods (Fitness)
9 Foods that fight colds (Dec 97 Runner's World)
Eat your way healthy - 14 powerful remedies14 Familiar Foods with Newfound Goodness
15 Foods You Simply Can't Overlook
The 21 Healthiest Foods
Power Foods
30 Foods that Fight Disease
6 Super Foods Every Woman Needs

thanks!

[Slappy*McFish]

Fish...

[kuhliloach]

Fish...

I think you said that earlier in this thread, though who would want to forget fish(besides vegetarians)?

[Slappy*McFish]

Fish tacos...