food. FOOOD!
Such an overvalued topic these days. That's not surprising with all these healthy diets in fashion, scientific researches, Food TV Shows, etc.
1) Yes. People need to eat to stay alive. It's kind of a fact. ( skipping prana eaters here)
2) People probably (!) need to have a balanced diet to consume enough of all those good micro-things.
and that's it. I wish people draw the line here. and stay this side.
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Another side of the line: people spend up to 60% (!!) of their life-time thinking about food, earning money to buy food, cooking food, cleaning up after cooking, watching how food is cooked and consumed, researching what's the best food to eat, following various diets... etc.
I am not saying stop research and eat what u have. But make sure you spend reasonable time and effort doing this.
If people would Spend 10% of the time they think about food for EXERCISE, this would be a totally different world!