Key To Good Health May Be Concentrating On Food Not Nutrients

So close and yet...

"In a recent academic review, a University of Minnesota professor in the School of Public Health has concluded that food, as opposed to specific nutrients, may be key to having a healthy diet."

Isn't that profound?

Here is the too bad part:

"'We are confusing ourselves and the public by talking so much about nutrients when we should be talking about foods...'"

If only they had said "we should be talking about Calories."

Weight control is all about Calories in vs. Calories out.

How you get there is immaterial.

With 100% certainty, for a given BMI, we do not know if a fat person who got there on organic chicken breasts is any healthier than a fat person who got there on filet mignon.

Though you may prefer to eat in a way that you believe is "healthier," as far as weight goes, nothing matters but for the Calories.

Focus on what works, first. It is not the foods, it is the Calories. Then decide how you want to get there.

Do not be distracted by the noise of the experts.