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‘The talk about superfoods is absurd, and miracle diets do not exist’

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> The talk about superfoods is absurd, and miracle diets do not exist

I don't get this point. They even talk about a specific diet and Q&A around it in this article. There are superfoods and "miracle" diets. The whole "Blue Zones" diets all have similar foods to what is mentioned about Mediterranean.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_zone

https://www.bluezones.com/2020/07/blue-zones-diet-food-secre...

No food is a superfood unless you are deficient in some vitamin or mineral that it contains in excess.

I had bloodwork done and was found to be low in potassium. Avocados have a lot of potassium. For fixing my potassium deficiency, avocados were like a miracle. I eat something with avocados at least once a month and my levels stay normal.

There is no food, vitamin, or mineral that will guarantee a specific outcome outside of bringing you up to or above baseline, and in many (but not all) cases, being above baseline for some substance will simply cause your body to flush the excess out.

My uneducated conclusion after seeing all these "super foods" arise and then later be determined to actually be unhealthy is that super foods are only super because they're growing naturally in nutrient-rich/healthy environments. Once people start minmaxing their production for profit/quantity - growing them in over-farmed soil and processing all the remaining nutrients out of them - they're just as unhealthy as the rest of the options.

I would add that a "superfood" may have provided some nutritional substance that a person was lacking and had a positive effect, but no everyone is lacking the same things and once you have built up an appropriate reserve there should usually be no further beneficial effect to consuming more of the superfood.

"Superfoods" are simply classified by being nutritionally dense foods. If you have the nutrition, you won't get any benefit from consuming them.

It does fools. I’ve been taking health force vitagreen daily for ten years and I’m at least ten years “younger” than my biological age.

No brain fog

No problems with my energy levels

I don’t use a “Mediterranean diet” however I do swear by copious amounts of uncooked olive oil in your daily diet (healthy fats). You’re just doing it wrong.

My karma is being brutalized over this and I assure you it is true.

Not “just” being snarky, and I think it’s abominable of anyone to downvote a little snark they don’t agree with.

I enjoy a superior healthy lifestyle, and sure I’m an active guy already however I have outpaced my peers in vigorous lifestyle.

Super dense nutrient diets are not a fad, they exist and enhance and support your micro machine biological husks of human beings.

Fact.

And it is foolish of modern wrongheadedness that such outright statements are being made by “scientists” over such limited “studies”.

I forget who said it: Eating Broccoli is great but you do have to understand it is just a vehicle to get olive oil into your mouth.

Your individual experience says nothing. I also look much younger than my age, what did I do for that ? Nothing. At least nothing extraordinary. No obsessive sports and no obsessive dieting. I just got lucky.

If I did do a specialised diet or exercise regime, of course I would attribute my youthful looks and energy levels to them, but that's magical thinking. You have no way to verify what your body would be like today without the ten years of pills.

This is crazy talk. Ignorance is not the horizon of Truth, and something does not become true only after you are convinced.

I offer a personal account that is entirely predictable and verifiable by most[] ordinary peoples.

[] there are always variables or exceptions, you must explore your own.

I can stop eating superfoods and my skin will age visibly in weeks (dryness, loss of elasticity, less “fresh” looking.) energy levels fall of, recovery takes longer.

The vitagreen of which I speak is really only a collection of nutritious plants delicately processed (using as little heat or other handling as possible.)

An aside for those who genuinely are interested in health and well being. Taking this meal augmentation will at first make you ill (headaches for instance) as your body will purge built up toxins (this is not a “cleanse” fad, merely the stuff working. Continuing to eating junk foods will entirely ruin any positive results.

If one wants a superior lifestyle from superior superfoods, these things must be taken seriously.

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