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The list of nutrient dense foods is interesting. I actually posted this with a different title "A nice list of nutrient dense foods" It's nice to know what are

The list of nutrient dense foods is interesting. I actually posted this with a different title "A nice list of nutrient dense foods" It's nice to know what are the most nutrient dense foods, because they are the healthiest - they have the highest nutrient/calorie ratio.

jmillikin 17y ago
If you want a list of healthy foods, consult a doctor or scientist. Eating according to this guy's list is a quick way to severe health problems.
- ca98am79 17y ago
  Are you kidding? Eating a lot of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, beans, and nuts are not going to give you severe health problems. It will most likely make you a lot more healthy.
- zargon 17y ago
  Joel Fuhrman is a doctor.
gjm11 17y ago
Are you saying that "healthiest" means "highest nutrient/calorie ratio" (which seems like a very strange definition) or that the healthiest foods in some other sense (e.g., such that eating more of them tends to help you live longer) turn out to be precisely those with highest nutrient/calorie ratio (which even Fuhrman doesn't claim -- he says your diet would have too little fat if you tried to eat only those foods)? It seems to me that trying to measure how "healthy" any given foodstuff is, is fundamentally misguided. A healthy diet is one that delivers the things you need in suitable proportions, and that can never be a matter of just eating more of one set of foods and less of another. Even that is an oversimplification; it may be better to eat some kinds of things together with others, or avoid doing so; or to eat some kinds of things at particular times, or avoid doing so. None of this stuff is anything like perfectly understood. Sure, there are some foodstuffs that we should almost all eat more or less of than we naturally want to because of differences our distant ancestors' environments and ours (e.g., we mostly like eating fat because when energy is scarce it's a good thing to eat, but these days in the affluent west this is hardly ever anyone's problem), but that's not really a matter of those things being "healthy" or "unhealthy", it's a matter of our calibration being imperfect.

jmillikin 17y ago

If you want a list of healthy foods, consult a doctor or scientist. Eating according to this guy's list is a quick way to severe health problems.

ca98am79 17y ago
Are you kidding? Eating a lot of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, beans, and nuts are not going to give you severe health problems. It will most likely make you a lot more healthy.
zargon 17y ago
Joel Fuhrman is a doctor.

gjm11 17y ago

Are you saying that "healthiest" means "highest nutrient/calorie ratio" (which seems like a very strange definition) or that the healthiest foods in some other sense (e.g., such that eating more of them tends to help you live longer) turn out to be precisely those with highest nutrient/calorie ratio (which even Fuhrman doesn't claim -- he says your diet would have too little fat if you tried to eat only those foods)? It seems to me that trying to measure how "healthy" any given foodstuff is, is fundamentally misguided. A healthy diet is one that delivers the things you need in suitable proportions, and that can never be a matter of just eating more of one set of foods and less of another. Even that is an oversimplification; it may be better to eat some kinds of things together with others, or avoid doing so; or to eat some kinds of things at particular times, or avoid doing so. None of this stuff is anything like perfectly understood. Sure, there are some foodstuffs that we should almost all eat more or less of than we naturally want to because of differences our distant ancestors' environments and ours (e.g., we mostly like eating fat because when energy is scarce it's a good thing to eat, but these days in the affluent west this is hardly ever anyone's problem), but that's not really a matter of those things being "healthy" or "unhealthy", it's a matter of our calibration being imperfect.