It's important to eat healthy, but you already knew that. The problem here is not a lot of people know how to do it, even the nutritionists change there mind every few years! So allow me to make a few simple points.
1. Sugar, fat, and salt are good for you.
That's why they taste so good! Our taste buds evolved that way so we would seek out these foods because our body needs them.
HOWEVER: too much of them is no good.
ALSO: the form they come in is important. Getting sugar from an apple is great, getting it from an individually wrapped snack cake is not.
2. Industrialized/Processed food should be avoided.
It's been said that you should shop around the perimeter of a super market and avoid the aisles. This is because the aisles are where all the processed foods are. More and more, these processed foods are being blamed for all sorts of health problems in industrialized countries.
A simple way to look at it is this: If people ate it before the industrial period of the world, it's probably fine.
OR: if your food spent more time in a factory than a farm, it's probably bad.
3. Eating healthy is also healthy for the environment.
This was the thing that really tipped the scales in my mind and got me to actually care about what I ate. Foods that are good for you are also good for sustainability of our environment-lucky for us! Fresh local produce has great nutrition and uses much less energy to ship around the globe. Beef from grass fed cows has less fat, and less need for antibiotics. Avoiding "factory foods" cuts down on trash from wasteful packaging. So if you're the type to think "health nut or not, we die all the same," now think about how important the environment is, and how we can kill two birds with one stone by eating healthier.
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