Superfoods Are Not Great. This Should Be Your Regular Meal.
It’s easy to pat yourself on the back for one vegetable you ate today, and if you don’t usually eat anything, be sure to celebrate this victory in healthy eating. But singling out foods as “super” or “healthy” can backfire.
Instead, we should think of healthy food as normal, and eating vegetables shouldn’t be anything special. Jonathan Ross explains at Greatist:
Yes, cabbage is healthy, but it is healthy according to our body’s standard expectations, and it has always been healthy. Over the past decade, it has not evolved into a “Kale Superfood”. Healthy food should be our norm. It’s not great; this is what is expected.
If you feel like eating something wholesome is an achievement, you will probably think that eating junk food is okay – after all, you ate healthy and unhealthy foods, so on average you are doing well. Instead, we must rethink our expectations: see the less-optimal choices for what they are, and make the new norm healthy.
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