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Deciding what Foods you should Eat – The Big Picture

This post takes a look at nutrition from a big picture approach. It explains how focusing on one or two aspects of a food can provide inaccurate information about the overall nutritional quality of that food. It also discusses the importance of looking at your nutritional program as a whole and not just examining the individual foods you eat by themselves.

     I want to start this post by simply saying that nutrition is complicated and it can be very confusing, especially when there are so many different diets and opinions about how and what you should eat. Since there is so much competition among nutrition plans, each one tries to market a unique angle to help it stand out from the crowd. As a result, much of the information focuses on explaining why one particular plan is better than all the others. While this certainly helps attract new customers, it also makes people lose sight of the big picture by making them focus on the aspect(s) of the program that makes it different or unique. However, when it comes to nutrition, the last thing you want to do is lose sight of the big picture.

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