{"id":216,"date":"2010-06-22T20:38:36","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T03:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keepwellfoods.com\/blog\/?p=216"},"modified":"2010-06-22T22:02:25","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T05:02:25","slug":"10-foods-you-wont-see-advertised-on-tv-but-should","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keepwellfoods.com\/blog\/?p=216","title":{"rendered":"10 Foods You Won’t See Advertised on TV, but Should"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was an interesting article in the Health section of Forbes.com yesterday\u00a0discussing the ten very <\/strong>healthy foods we don’t get enough of according to nutritionist Jonny Bowden. Here is his list:<\/p>\n

\n

\"\"<\/a>

Kale: King of Vegetables<\/p><\/div>\n

1. Cherries
\n2. Blueberries
\n3. Kiwi
\n4. Grass-fed Beef
\n5. Wild Salmon
\n6. Flax Seed
\n7. Whey Protein Powder
\n8. Kale
\n9. Coconut
\n10. Dark Chocolate<\/p>\n

Dark chocolate, now you’re talking. Jonny also\u00a0talks about\u00a0what he believes are flaws in the current food pyramid (soon to be revised by the USDA, by the way)\u00a0such as\u00a0“demonizing fat”. Not all fats are bad – some play a vital role in a healthy diet. He recommends people follow a Mediterranean diet which includes fruits, vegetables, grains, fish\u00a0and healthy oils, all of which can be found in the list, above. Here is a link to the full article: Forbes.com – Health<\/a>. You can get more detailed information on the benefits of\u00a0each of the\u00a0foods listed\u00a0by clicking on the In Pictures <\/a>link.<\/p>\n

In contrast to what we should be eating but don’t hear enough about,\u00a0is a recently published\u00a0study\u00a0in The Journal of the American Dietetic Association <\/a>which shows that if we ate\u00a0the food\u00a0advertised on television, we would eat 20 times the recommended daily allowance (RDA)\u00a0of fat and 25 times the amount of sugar. This assumes a person\u00a0eats 2,000 calories a day of the foods advertised during prime time and Saturday morning programs. Not only would we eat way too much fat and sugar, according to Michael Mink, lead author and assistant professor of health sciences at Armstrong Atlantic University in Savannah, GA,\u00a0we would eat less than half of the RDA of\u00a0fiber, dairy,\u00a0fruits and vegetables. You can read more about the study here: New York Times Fitness and Nutrition<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, we can’t always rely on food manufacturers to tell us the whole story when they are promoting their products. The results of this study\u00a0speak to how important it is to read and understand a nutritional label.\u00a0If you aren’t sure about the nutrition information of fruits and vegetables, you can find out by visiting the FDA’s web site at: FDA Nutrition Information.<\/a>\u00a0There you will find\u00a0nutritional information\u00a0for the top 20 most frequently eaten raw fruits and vegetables (and seafood, too) in the U.S. Another great tool can be found at NutritionData.com<\/a>. You can look up almost any food, from kale to kiwi,\u00a0and find a complete nutritional profile.<\/p>\n

\n

Maybe the\u00a0kale people should produce a\u00a0few commercials of their own: This program is brought to you by Kale – the Super Vegetable.\u00a0Got\u00a0Kale?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So much processed “junk” is advertised on t.v., but you never hear about the foods that are really good for you. Here is one nutritionist’s Top 10 list of really healthy foods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepwellfoods.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepwellfoods.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepwellfoods.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepwellfoods.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepwellfoods.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/keepwellfoods.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448,"href":"https:\/\/keepwellfoods.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepwellfoods.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepwellfoods.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepwellfoods.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}