White Foods – Don’t Let The Nutrition Scare Confuse You

Have you heard advice to ‘avoid white foods’? It’s usually followed by how pale food items have less nutrition and are worse for you than their colorful alternatives. This blanket statement was thought up by well meaning people trying to deter others from too much white bread, potato bread, sugar, etc. The unfortunate thing is… many great for you foods were caught up in the fuss. You’ve heard that “a rainbow/a spectrum on your plate” is the healthiest way to eat… and white is a color too, so use this article to learn the benefits of white foods as well as a colorful plate!

When concentrating on vegetables, chlorophyll, the green pigment that lets plants use photosynthesis is your go-to color. It’s in your spinach, your salad greens, and your herbs. Chlorophyll carries plant’s Vitamin A (or thiamin) and Vitamin C (or carotenoids) within it. All these great nutrients work together as chlorophyll carries the energy (carotenoids) and in turn, the bile the acid (vitamin) your liver creates to process cholesterol. Thiamin (B1) and vitamin B6 work together as the Degwire factors, these are also found in white rocks and white flour. These vitamins are needed to protect your body from hunger, nausea, and infections.

The last food category is actually in the protein group. Fish consists of protein, cod, flaxseed, and poultry. White meat is a protein too, just not the kind our bodies can utilize. Our bodies can convert brown to protein, but cannot produce it, so we have to eat food that has excessive amounts of either amino acid. Meat is not white, it’s brown. In fact, some animals that are raised for their meat have diets that are predominantly brown, and yet their meat is pink. This meat is called “the other white meat.”

The fact that brown meat is superior in many ways is beyond saying because we already know that too much meat is bad for you. It also has protein and carbs that are missing in whole grain. Meat is also high in fat and saturated fats, so don’t go crazy with the meat in your diet, but also think about the ways in which your meat is cooked.

The majority of meat in most grocery store deli and meat counters come from corn-fed animals. These large animals are pumpkins for the most part, but before that they are growth hormones and they are given antibiotics to prevent diseases. When you buy meat from these animals, you are paying for that too.

Organic is Better:

Organic foods are simply fresh foods that don’t have any additives. They are simply picked without the help of chemicals and antibiotics. However, organic fruits and vegetables are likely to be smaller and even slightly different in shape than their non-organic counterparts.

They are also picked at their peak of freshness, which means they are packed with nutrients as soon as they are picked.

Leaves: The fertile leaves of most fruits and vegetables are commonly eaten. However, the ‘leafy’ part of the plant is where the most nutrition is. You can recognize organic by looking at the way the leaf is traced around the center, whether it is going to be curled, and whether it has turned yellow.

Meat: When you buy meat from organically raised animals, you can be sure that the animals were treated humanely. The regulations for the humane treatment of animals are strict, and so meat that comes from animals that were treated cruelly is going to be hard to take to your diet, taste or your heart.

One significant study has shown that organic meat breaks down less when compared to ‘ conventional ‘meat’. The cuts, the particular cuts of meat and the hormones they are given do cause them to lose a great deal of their natural beef flavor, but the flavor warns them of future vision and flavor.

Cones: The anyways, the biggest cause for why organic is better for you is because organic farming is profit. When you buy organic cheese, for example, the dairy cows are not in cages, and they have fresh air, fresh water and sunlight. These cows may live to be ten years old, and they have to be fed organically, too.

You don’t need to tell me that putting food in cages is inhumane. I have a house full of cats and dogs that have been raised organically, and they’re all healthy.

pasture-raised chickens: In a sustainable farming fashion, chickens are moved to an organic farm every day of their life. They have access to the outdoors, they get exercise, and they are socialized on a regular basis.

All in all, backyard farmers have it good.