Thread: Healthy Foods

Nice idea - building a list.

Giving your body all the nutrients it needs is the priority IMO.
So, on the one hand, I'm inclined to tell you to use multivitamins, but then again, sometimes a vitamin has a negative effect on you as well (overdose, or genetic reasons)
Maybe one day we'll have common-place machines that can measure what we need and don't need

Other than that, here's a list of good foods for health/wellness:

- Almonds (and most nuts)
- Blueberries
- Oats, the natural sort
- Fruit in general - apples, oranges, grapes (And yes, fructose is far better than sucrose, argue as people like)
- Honey
- Green leafy veggies (remember your schoolteacher's wise words ?)
- Beans, legumes, especially goa beans, green beans, etc

Try uping your fluid intake aswell.

Ive got the start of a cold at the minute. I can normally hold it off and stop it becoming a problem by eating loads of fruit, taking some vitamins, resting - but still getting fresh air, having a good attitude and drinking loads. And no, i dont mean alcohol. xD

Start excersising aswell if you dont already. But you should probably stop excersising for a bit if you feel a cold coming on.

Check it out:

The World's Healthiest Foods

A list containing 129 of the healthiest foods available, sorted by category, and with a quite extensive article for each one. It's pretty cool - I go here all the time.

Criteria for The World's Healthiest Foods

• The World's Healthiest Foods are the Most Nutrient Dense
• The World's Healthiest Foods are Whole Foods
• The World's Healthiest Foods are Familiar Foods
• The World's Healthiest Foods are Readily Available
• The World's Healthiest Foods are Affordable
• The World's Healthiest Foods Taste Good

DuB, what a great site.. thanks!!

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Thanks for contributing everyone! And DuB - a lot of those foods actually look good! I love olives, turkey, and yogurt to name a few

Awesome website, I try to eat only whats healthy for me, basically only meat I eat is fish and chicken/turkey. Its hard though, hamburgers turn out so good with the George Forman grill, especially if you buy the extra lean and squeeze all the fat out of it every 30 seconds or so while you're cooking it. Makes for a fresher hamburger than any resturant could serve.

Green Tea contains a lot of antioxidants I hear but then it does contain Caffeine, in small amounts mind, but still I avoid all caffeine and I know quite a few people here try to avoid it as much as possible.