Miracle foods: which ones work?

Every day we see headlines that promise miracles if we eat a particular food. In the last week we read articles on WebMD that suggest "Blueberry juice may boost memory" and that "Green tea extract may treat uterine fibroids." Sometimes they claim to melt away the fat or otherwise help us lose weight effortlessly.

Are these foods miracles? No. The headlines usually cover themselves by using weasel words such as may, might and could. Some of these foods are interesting. They deserve further study. Perhaps one day an active ingredient will be isolated that will be proven to help disease or improve health.

Are these foods bad? No, not at all. The diversity in nutrients provided by different foods is truly amazing. When scientists analyze plants they often find new compounds and new molecules.

A food might appear to be a miracle if it provides a nutrient that is missing from the diet. British sailors of a few hundred years ago often got very sick during long voyages. When they reached shore they learned that limes would cure them. They had developed scurvy, a disease caused by lack of vitamin C, and the vitamin C in the limes cured them. That must have seemed a miracle!

Consider that we don't know everything about all foods. We don't know everything about the human body and how various natural nutrients affect it. Doesn't it make sense to eat a large variety of food?

At Diet Inn we are firm believers in variety. Too much of any one thing is often bad. A lack of an essential nutrient is bad. So we recommend eating a large variety of food, and as fresh and little processed as possible.

bon appetit!
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