What foods do you find delicious AND healthy?

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Grapes are delicious and healthy.

Many experts would argue against the amount of fat you imply (beef and pork) but I would not completely eliminate animal fats, if eaten in moderation. The wine could help counteract the effects, and of course the amount of exercise you get. Most experts recommend cereals (not the sugar coated ones) to help achieve enough fiber. Cereals based on oats have a decent amount of complex carbohydrates. BTW I also love many of the foods you list, especially salmon!

Last edited by Rocky on 09 Sep 2010, 5:30 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I like fresh spinach, either in a salad, or cooked. Cooked chard is even better.

I like to drink chocolate soy milk (instead of soft drinks.)

Whole wheat bread.

Fish and shellfish - I could never get bored with them. Fresh fruits and vegetables - spinach, pear and pecan nuts salad is also one of my favourites.

Almost anything you cook from scratch will be healthier that processed food and there are actually very few fresh or home prepared foods that are bad for you if you don't make excesses.

Increasing numbers of scientific studies are showing that it is not animal fat ( nor other saturated fats, in dairy for example, ... though polyunsaturates aren't as quite as good for you as advertised ), that are the problem but carbohydrates, whether complex/starchy ones in cereals or the simpler disacccharides etc, like sucrose/"sugar", maltose, dextrose, etc or one of the very simplest, fructose. It is becoming increasingly clear that it is not fats but carbohydrates which are to blame for most of modern society's degenerative diseases. There is really no reason to eat them at all, ( especially not for fibre, which in cereals is responsible for leaching essential minerals, like zinc, from your body on its way out; far better to eat a carrot or two, and some fresh parsley ), and every reason not to.

PS. Actually there is one reason to eat carbohydrates, and that is poverty; if can't afford to buy sufficient quantities of tinned or frozen oily fish, beef/lamb or other red meat, pork or chicken, eggs, etc. Carbohydrates are famine food, a last resource, to be eaten only after the protein and fat is finished, like rice was traditionally eaten in China, at the end of the meal, and completely plain, to discourage the addictive/binge eating that carbohydrates tend to trigger.

PPS. They're calling Alzheimers the "third diabetes"; the result of eating too many high-glycemic index foods, ie. concentrated carbohydrates.
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