Nutrition or "Superfoods"

        Our diets these days can always use a bit of improvement.  Keeping up with a frenetic lifestyle of work/school and play can often leave our meal planning on the back-burner and our resulting meals grabbed on the go with a bit to be desired nutritionally.  In these posts I will be featuring a number of "superfoods" that have been deemed so by the scientific and nutritional community.
        Some of you may be asking why you should bother trying to eat foods that contain certain vitamins and nutrients when you could just pop a pill with the aforementioned goodies instead.  The answer to this is that supplements can be good, but they are just that, a "supplement" to a healthy diet. Our bodies absorb these compounds best from whole food sources where they are often found in conjunction with other complementary ones.  This synergistic effect is what makes these foods so healthful, and by just taking vitamins you are missing out on many of the great benefits these whole foods provide.  As a rule of thumb, supplementation is good, but straight from the source is better.
        Some of the convoluted diets we see today can be confusing and overly complex, but hopefully the foods spotlighted in upcoming posts will pop out in your mind when shopping or at a restaurant as a healthy choice to be added to your diet.

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