The perks of knowing your food

It’s always beneficial and important to know what you’re eating and the good benefits and bad benefits you get from your food.  I know that I’ve talked a lot about healthy eating and how important it is to know where your food comes from, from my previous blogs.  After all, this blog is called the pivot point of food, the turning point of food. 

                Now I know that sometimes I get confused and categorize food as bad or good, either the food I am eating is healthy or unhealthy.  It doesn’t really work that way, surely some foods are worse than others but it’s all about portion size, control and mixing and matching.  For example if you are a huge fan of potato chips or chocolate, it’s important to control the amount, even though it’s hard and addicting.  Watch and take notice of how much you are eating because it’s unhealthy.  Make it a little bit healthier.  Get creative and make the chocolate into a granola bar, or smash the chips and use it to bread chicken.  This mixing and matching of foods makes the unhealthy chips or chocolate a bit healthier.  The two junk food sits in the middle of the scale between healthy and unhealthy.

               Being knowledgeable about the food world is also very important if you want to eat healthier or if you are on a diet.  Research or read about foods that will help you and your lifestyle.  Different kinds of foods do different things that will either harm you or help you.  Making sure that you know what you are eating will make your body function properly or better. 

                As people begin to be more cautious about what they are eating, many grocery stores have a rating system in which it rates foods from 1-100 on the nutritional value of the food. 1 being the lowest in nutrition and 100 as the highest.  Use the system to your advantage, the system is a great way to monitor the healthy foods you are buying and the unhealthy foods.  You might be shocked on what you might find and consider being healthy but it’s not really healthy. 

                Remember that foods are not all bad or all good, portion size, control and mixing and matching foods will make the unhealthy foods you like to eat better for you