Healthy Research on Healthy Living

I want to talk about your health for a bit and what you may or may not find when doing your research to better your self.  I research a lot.  it's kind of a big thing that I do.  I researched vegans for 3 months before I decided to try it for 6 weeks.  I research every time I write a post.  Now my main research comes from the web which is why this post is titled as such. Many people have many different views when it comes to how a certain food will/can harm you or better you.  Professional research, and bias opinions, and slightly researched thoughts can lead to some very misleading facts and/or information sent your way.  You have to take this into account and use your own best judgement towards how you personally feel after researching a few different sides.


Here is a fine example.  I have changed many things in my kitchen to better suite my healthy lifestyle.  There are things that I don't buy any more that I have replaced.  I now have solely switched to buying whole wheat noodles, 100% whole wheat bread, any type of brown rice (brown jasmine rice is my favorite), almond milk, whole wheat flour, raw almonds, organic olive oil, and I've cut quite a few recipes that absolutely request cheese.  With these changes I can confidently say I feel better about my choices when I'm cooking at home with these products.  This wasn't an easy task to change these options.  it took a lot of research and in the end it was my own theories that have brought me to my knees for these changes.  Everything from pros and cons in ratio to the verse of what i buy now to what i used to buy.  I wanted to find out where else can I get the nutritional activities that were in old products that aren't in the new ones, and which ones I would gain from for the change.  It is definitely a process.

70% of the time you are fishing through bullshit, hype, bias opinions, and that big I don't have any clue what I'm talking abouts. But that's where multipe searches comes in.  I even scroll down to the comments cause even though there is usually some trolling going on, or some more bias opinions, you can get a well rounded thought for what you are trying to learn. Which in place you can take and use into your own account.

I don't preach nutrition, antioxidants in food, or anything like that.  There are to many unfinished professional researches, and people with there own thoughts about what they read that were facts about what is here to help us and what is here to hurt us.  Remember how milk was good for us?  Then bad for us?  Then good? then bad? good? bad? good but sorta bad?  I try not to tangle myself up on something that might change later on.  I drink almond milk cause of the nutritional value.  I don't drink milk cause it comes from a cow and the fact is we aren't cows and that was never our intention to drink cows milk.  The hormones and nutrition in cows milk was meant for calves.  And now a days the process from cows to the store just isn't what I want to think about either.  So I limit heavily how much i consume.

A healthy lifestyle is different for all of us.  Some of us are allergic to certain foods, some of us absorb certain vitamins and minerals, better or worse then the next person.  Some people don't get enough certain foods which can lead to deficiencies. I was reading a post today that caught my eye about ground turkey vs. red meat.  Someone in a post said red meat is vital for many reasons including iron.  You need iron so you need red meat.  Perfect example of someone else not doing their full research.  Cause if they had, they'd know that red meat sure does have iron.  But also fish, seafood, leafy green vegetables, and poultry also carry a wonderful supply of iron.  But you can't stop there.  You also have to understand some things help boost others.  In this case, vitamin C consumed along side iron will help the body absorb the iron better.

In conclusion you should always find back up for the research you do, and if you can't find anything solid go with what you feel is the best route, but keep an open mind to others thoughts and opinions.  Cause you never know when milk will become the best thing in the world for us to consume again! ;)