If we listen to everybody, nothing is safe to eat

This is not medical advice.

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Years ago, I was attending a continuing education course, and the speaker’s other passion was nutrition. He discouraged eating tomatoes because they were a “dark shade” vegetable. I’m not even going to look that up. C’mon dude. We shouldn’t eat tomatoes? What about relativity? Tomatoes are certainly better than Skittles.

Although, as I look at that picture above, they really are a devilishly evil red… forbidden fruit?

If we listened to all the people on the internet tell us what’s bad to eat, there would be nothing left to eat. Here’s a list of all the things that are potentially unsafe to eat or drink;

• Meat (says vegetarians)

• Vegetables (says carnivores)

• Carbs

• Fat

• Salt

• Nuts (you might develop an allergy!)

• Cholesterol (ranked, good bad and dangerous!)

• Sugar ( I agree with this one, in mass quantities, like soft drinks)

• Fruit (too much sugar, supposedly)

• Vegetable oils (again, ranked)

• Not enough water ( I agree)

• Too much water (this is possible. People have died from drinking gallons of water in contests)

• Soft drinks

  

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• Drinks in plastic bottles

• Drinks in aluminum

• Too much alcohol (agreed)

• Not enough alcohol (wine good for heart health? maybe)

• GMOs

• Dark chocolate is good for you

• Too much chocolate is bad for you

• Candy in general

• You need more protein!

• You need less protein, it’s bad for the planet!

• Juice (too much sugar)

• Dairy

• Not enough dairy (for bone density)

• Fish (especially tuna/mercury)

• Yes! Eat fish! They have omega 3’s and are good for your heart!

• No! Don’t eat fish, we are over fishing the planet!

  

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• Coffee is good for you

• Coffee is bad for you

• Caffeine

• Nicotine ( some men on podcasts are starting to claim that Nicotine is good for you. Curiously, they are addicted to Nicotine)

• Cannabis (who knows)

• Take a daily vitamin!

• You don’t need a daily vitamin with a balanced diet!

What’s left? Not sure. Maybe the key word is moderation. Moderation in all things; diet, work, exercise, electronics time, etc…

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I’m sure I missed some. Please comment any you can think of.