Pizza is Healthy?
October 6, 2008 1:52 pm UncategorizedI’ll admit it. When I was younger and had less wisdom floating around upstairs … I thought pizza was a fairly healthy food.
Why would I think that?
Well, because that’s what I was TAUGHT to believe.
You probably were too.
Think about it. What did we learn in school?
We learned that a good, healthy diet contained the four main food groups and pizza covered all the bases.
Meat? Check.
Pepperoni and/or sausage covered that one.
Dairy? A nice thick layer of mozzarella cheese covered the dairy component.
And we had bread taken care of with the crust.
And if we top it off with mushrooms, green peppers, or onions, then we even got vegetables in the mix.
What could be better, right?
Well, not exactly. (I wanted to believe the lie, so I did.)
There are a lot of different ways you can approach how you eat and what foods you eat. But focusing on getting a good mixture of the “four main food groups” is NOT a good healthy approach to eating.
Today I’d like you to start focusing on two main groups of “food”.
Real food vs. fake food.
Potatoes are real food. Potato chips are fake food.
An orange is a real food. A chewy fruit-flavored candy with 10% real fruit juice is a fake food.
Your assignment: Eat more real food and less fake food.