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25 Nutrition Mistakes

           Best-selling author Michael Pollan became famous telling us that to eat healthy is to eat SIMPLY—just like our grandmothers did. But Grandma didn’t live in the “Information Age”, the age of the 25,000 product grocery store, new Dietary Guidelines every couple of years, and all those “SUPER FOOD” health claims. It should be simple but it really isn’t with so much nutrition media noise to contend with.

            Consider the nutrition science that has flip-flopped over the egg! It was targeted as an artery-clogging cholesterol bomb in the 1980s and now we want to have it at least a couple of meals a week (and not just for breakfast). The question now is which egg to choose…brown, enriched, organic???.

            Pollan is right, mostly: The basic rules of healthy eating are simple but you have to pay attention to nutrition details so you can use it to your ADVANTAGE…the disadvantages being complicated menu planning, wasting your money and/or time, weight gain, or being scammed by great marketing!!

The following are common mistakes and WHAT YOU SHOULD BE DOING TODAY! Email lwooten7@sc.rr.com for the first 22!

Mistake #23. You favor peanut butter fortified with omega-3s to get your share of those good fats.

Result: Good idea, but you’re probably not getting as much omega-3s as you may think.

Fortification of foods is sometimes good but also marketed a bit enthusiastically. You’d have to eat 1 cup of that peanut butter to equal the amount of omega-3s in a single serving of wild salmon—a whopping 1,520 calories versus about 200 calories in a 4-ounce piece of fish. Or try a supplement, with your dr.'s approval of course. Krill oil supplements have less of an aftertaste or burps!

What to do: Enjoy the PB, but favor the fish. Make it wild salmon and only 4 oz as it is quite fatty!