My Nutrition Questions for This Next Year
Is 100 years a long time? How about 10,000 years or a million? The answer: it depends on the reference point. In human terms, 100 years is a long time, but in terms of changes within a specific type of food or in terms of the microbiome, maybe not.
In the next year, there are three major questions and several smaller ones I plan to research and, I hope, come up with some answers.
Where Is the Nutrition “Sweet Spot”?
How much vegetables and fruits do you need to eat to offset some foods considered not as good? For example, cabbage is a great cruciferous vegetable; not everyone likes it cooked, but they often like coleslaw. Here’s my question: how much sugar and mayonnaise can you add to cabbage in your coleslaw before it’s not a healthy food? Real mayonnaise and sugar can be adjusted in the dressing recipe, so you’re getting the flavor but not quite as much sugar and fat.
Berries with ice cream? Carrots with brown sugar? Ketchup on French fries? Cucumbers and lettuce with Italian dressing? On and on. We need the phytonutrients. How much good cancels the bad?
Can We Get All The Nutrients We Need from a Well-Balanced Diet?
This has been my question for almost 25 years; now I’m trying a different approach to getting the answer to that question.
Has the Microbiome Changed Significantly Since We’ve Changed the Food Supply?
Plant and animal husbandry have resulted in plants and animals with more desirable traits while eliminating others. Have the microbes been modified in response to what we’ve done?
There are more questions, such as does our inability to make vitamin C impact the ability to metabolize other nutrients or medications? Are the LDL-cholesterol sub-fractions more important than the total-LDL number?
The Bottom Line
My objective to answering my questions is to make it reasonable to modify diet, exercise, and supplements to achieve the best health we can at any age. But I do know the answer to one: what’s the most important factor in obtaining good health? The answer to this question is, as always:
What are you prepared to do today?
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