Beware of food trends...

There are so many conflicting opinions on the Internet and in real life about health issues. You can find studies to support an issue and studies to support arguments. It can become very overwhelming for us to determine what is really going on and what we should really be worried about. I find a huge problem with reliability, even the most well-known sources have been known to retract their health claims, and sometimes it's done in a low profile way which is even more disturbing than these sources being wrong in the first place.

Tonight was spent doing a little research on "health trends." I found an article, rather two articles, on the Huffington Post website that are about 2013 and 2014. It was a little silly to see that the 2013 article was titled, "The worst health trends of 2013: Health trends we'd be happy to see go in 2014." The article for 2014 was labeled, "Heath trends of 2014." I guess in 2015 we will see a correction and it will tell us what they would like to see gone in 2015 about 2014. This is exactly what continues to cause such confusion about our information on health. While I'm not an avid follower of the Huffington Post I know a lot of people are.

In my last post, "Superfoods: Kale and Beans," I lightly touched on this issue. There have been instances where I have shared something I read on the web, or even in a magazine, that I have had to retract later on when the truth was discovered. There is another problem I see in this "free information sharing" generation of ours, sometimes people are HALF correct. That is kiiiinda dangerous in my eyes and I'll tell you why; either starting out with the right idea or ending with it creates a room full of people who begin to think professionals can be anyone, or that a professional is always correct. Now without going into my opinion on "why I believe a doctor is still just a human being" I will end this paragraph with DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH!

Superfoods are superfoods, and it's unnecessary to call them that, my opinion is if it grows in the ground, takes energy from the sun, needs water to flourish and soil to support it then it has everything you need so eat it. Try all things, eat foods you don't thoroughly enjoy because they are good for you, that's life kid! Showers, sleeping, eating and exercising are necessary to survive..mostly ..so stop looking for the miracle, stop eating fast food and listen to your body. I have learned that 9 times out of 10 when you don't feel well, have a mood, skin, attitude, physical or allergy problem it is because you aren't nourishing your body correctly. Obviously there are some real issues out there that sommme people have that can't be rectified with diet alone, but for the majority of us it's just that. It is very important to clarify here that when I say try things that I don't mean because some food "expert" tells you to. All these great new trending ideas, the new expensive health secret, are usually no different than the health foods you already know about. The price does not make it better for you and for some people that is terribly difficult to understand.

*Side note: while I sit here and blog I am going in between my other tabs to look things up as they pop up in my fast track mind, and I found an awesome article that is a more eloquent version of the pontificating you just read. I found it right after I finished my last paragraph and would have loved to have had it for reference throughout this ramble sesh, but here you go anyway. Don't be fooled by the title, it isn't about "The Dangers of Superfoods."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/09/he-dangers-of-superfoods.html