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Daily Archive February 14th, 2006

A Healthy Diet

By Jeffry Fawcett, February 14, 2006 in the Editorials blog

What does “healthy eating” mean? On occasion I have a conversation that goes something like this: I tell someone I study health issues; they say, “Oh, you probably eat a healthy diet;” they are then surprised to find out that not only am I not a vegetarian, but that I get around 60% of my energy from fat and less than 15% from carbohydrates. Our culture has created an informational smog around what to eat that equates health with a vegetarian, low fat diet. [Read more…]