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All people handle certain food differently depending on their heritage and the culture they live in.. The specific ecology of your intestines helps determine how efficiently you digest what you eat, so that the same input of 100 calories may yield more or less energy depending on the proportion of Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes living in your gut
 * 1) **Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.**
 * 2) dont eat meat as a main dish...eat it as a side
 * 3) . eat whole fresh foods rather than processed food products
 * 4) eat until you are 80% full
 * 5) **Myths**
 * 6) low-fat diets may not protect against Breast Cancer
 * 7) dietary fiber might not help prevent colon cancer
 * 8) **Nutritionism**
 * 9) “French paradox” the french eat a lot of "unhealthy" food but are still healthier than Americans
 * 10) if you only look at nutrients you eliminate the difference between processed food and unprocessed food
 * 11) processed foods are simply reformulated according to the "nutritional weather" while whole foods can not be reformulated and are ultimately hurt
 * 12) FOCUS ON QUALITY
 * 13) **Eat right, get fatter**
 * 14) fat doesn’t make you fat; carbs do!
 * 15) when Americans began binging on carbohydrates, as a way to avoid the evils of fat=OBESITY
 * 16) eat fewer meat and dairy products!
 * 17) **Bad Science**
 * 18) "The problem with nutrient-by-nutrient nutrition science, is that it takes the nutrient out of the context of food, the food out of the context of diet and the diet out of the context of lifestyle.”
 * 19) Food combinations matter when considering what nutrients are absorbed and what nutrients are not "Drink coffee with your steak, and your body won’t be able to fully absorb the iron in the meat"
 * 6. Western Diet and it's flaws**

4. Get out of the supermarket whenever possible. Food will be fresh and wont have any unidentifiable chemicals 5.Pay more. Eat less. better food=more money but it also means more nutrients 6. Eat mostly plants, especially leaves 7. traditional food culture: small portions, no seconds or snacking, communal meals — and the serious pleasure taken in eating. Dont worry so much about eating just follow your culture 8.Cook. And if you can, plant a garden. ESCAPE THE FAST FOOD CULTURE 9. Eat like an omnivore. Try to add new species, not just new foods, to your diet. The greater the diversity of species you eat, the more likely you are to cover all your nutritional bases.
 * 1) AMERICANS EAT SO BAD THAT WE ARE KILLING OURSELVES "people who eat the way we do in America today suffer much higher rates of cancer, heart disease, diabetes and obesity than people eating more traditional diets. (Four of the 10 leading killers in America are linked to diet.)"
 * 2) humans have moved away from knowing what is healthy because foods today are designed expressly to deceive its senses — with artificial flavors, say, or synthetic sweeteners.
 * 3) From Whole Foods to Refined. DONT EAT WHITE. white=refined=bad news.... making food "white" removes any nutrients
 * 4) From Complexity to Simplicity. industrialization makes food more simple (in a bad way)
 * 5) Processing foods depletes them of many nutrients, a few of which are then added back in through “fortification”
 * 6) **Food Choices and Consequences**
 * 7) Americans are swayed too much by marketing tactics of large food companies
 * 8) One theory is that Americans should simply accept that fast food is our food culture. Over time, people will get used to eating this way and our health will improve. But for natural selection to help populations adapt to the Western diet, we’d have to be prepared to let those whom it sickens die...which is not the case
 * 9) estimated at more than $200 billion a year in diet-related health-care costs — is unsustainable.
 * 10) **Tips for eating healthily**
 * 11) Eat FOOD- dont eat anything that your great great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food
 * 12) Avoid even those food products that come bearing health claims. They’re apt to be heavily processed, and the claims are often dubious at best.
 * 13) The American Heart Association charges food makers for their endorsement (SHOCKING). Avoid food products containing ingredients that are a) unfamiliar, b) unpronounceable c) more than five in number — or that contain high-fructose corn syrup