Internet is filled with articles that constantly claim to discover new “superfoods” with properties that are a true “miracle” for losing weight, improve our health, incorporate all kinds of nutrients, provide our body with many incredible benefits, etc. But it would be enough to improve our knowledge about nutrition and use common sense, instead of depending on those “click hunters”.
The formula is well known. This article could be simpler and more direct. It could be called 10 superfoods that bring this or that miracle. The article repetitively lists the vitamins, minerals, healthy fatty acids, fiber, antioxidant or inflammatory properties, and a long etcetera that each item on the list provides us with. Your visit gives me another click, you leave believing to have “discovered gunpowder” and everyone is happy.
I have personally come across those pages hundreds of times and throughout their lists I came across all kinds of fruits, vegetables, legumes, seeds, cereals, meats, spices, etc. In other words, natural foods known to mankind since centuries.
I’m not saying the articles are misleading. All these benefits and properties are true. But the simplistic concept of its premise prevents us from seeing something more elemental and basic. The lists basically include foods found in nature that, with some noble exceptions, should be consumed more often and without any processing or additions of any kind.
We should go back to basics. That means, more raw material and less processed food.
A good nutritional education should start from this concept. We will hardly make mistakes if we maintain a varied and balanced diet with all kinds of natural foods. In general, everything found in nature has different nutritional benefits (obviously, I mean everything considered edible by humans). It would be as boring as it is repetitive to list the vitamins or minerals that each of them provide.
It is therefore also important to learn which products are mistakenly considered “natural” just because they are “usual”, and which should be avoided. In this category are all those ultra-processed, refined carbohydrates, etc. And also those that do not exist naturally and are produced in laboratories, or refined through complex industrial processes. In this group are found, for example, some artificial sweeteners (saccharin, aspartame, sucralose), cheap refined vegetable oils (canola, sunflower, soybean), and products such as margarine, which has been developed in laboratories using hydrogenated fats. Some exceptions are, for example, yogurt, sauerkraut or pickles, which are processed through natural fermentation.
It’s reasonable to refer to those web pages for information or ideas about an ingredient that we may not be aware of. Maybe you’ve never tried vegetables like kale or chard, seeds like chia, quinoa, or flax, maybe you don’t know about the benefits of dressing more often with ginger or cinnamon, or you’ve never cooked different types of seafood, (wrongly) believing that it might too complicated.
You can discover many ingredients in the varied recipes proposed on bastapasta.fit, but none will produce a miracle on its own. It’s the proper nutrition system that will lay the foundations for a long-term healthy change in your life.