Bacon and lard.

Liquor in general

coconut anything

Currently, a glass of red wine is good for you, soy milk is bad, cow milk is good, eggs are good cholesterol, lard, butter, and animal fats are good (margarine, Crisco, vegetable oil are bad),(this is the exact opposite of what I grew up with) and coconut oil is good, Olive oil is good. We haven't even touched the sugars.

I don't think that they know what they are talking about, and I am going to eat what I want, prepared the way I want. The only thing I avoid is food with ingredients I can't pronounce. I think a varied diet is the key, with varied ways of cooking

Coffee was bad but now it's good.

Orange juice was good but now it's bad.

I missed the orange juice. Will have to "Google".

I can't remember exactly when or what it was that they lost me with their "studies". It would of been in the late 70's or early 80's. All of a sudden, everything we had followed for years was bad and something else was good. I just said to myself, to h*** with it and started eating and cooking what I wanted.

I do think that a varied diet is the key. If you only eat some form of fried meat with only starches, with no green anything in site, that is a bad diet.

Yes, as Gardengal48 said, I think the so called studies are flawed to reflect what they want.

Sherry, here you go.....Orange Juice Bad.....

As long as chocolate stays on the good side I’m good, too,

The thing is that the journalists don't really understand the science and just write whatever will get them the most clicks...

I grew up having to consume an orange a day....juice was the easiest and daily my mother juiced an orange for everyone and handed them thire glass. In 1943, fresh vegetables in January were carrots saved from the summer.....Vegetables were canned, either at home or from the store. Somehow we always seemed to have oranges....sometimes ugly and likely often expensive....but I was watch until that glass of the juice of one orange was consumed.
My mother thought whole wheat bread was too "harsh" for my child's tummy and of course things like 7-up and Coca cola were pure poison. Cream of wheat was a good breakfast....oat meal? maybe not!
There was some discussion a few years back about oat meal and oat bran binding with calcium and making it unavailable....
Just eat good food and don't go over board on anything!!

Eating raw garlic, late 80's

Egg whites vs. whole eggs. If you skip the yolk, you're missing a nutrient (can't recall exactly which one) that's very good for your health - lutein?

Low fat everything was debunked some time ago as useless for weight loss.

I'm like you all who eat whatever. I went to a college where a lot of medical research was done. IMHO: the methodology was so extreme as to make the results highly suspect; thereby making me question the validity of all "studies". Also, my paternal grandparents lived into their 90s and ate whatever; having said that, without all of todays additives.

Butter vs margarine debate. My grandmother always put a pat of butter on pretty much everything, my mom, as an adult, only used margarine. I use whatever I have in the fridge (except for baking):) It's actually somewhat amusing when I read old Weight Watchers or Cooking Light cookbooks at the library using reduced-calorie margarine. sweeteners, egg whites, etc. in a lot of recipes.

Not to get off track, but one thing that seems a bit alarming and "alerting" is the rise in food allergies. IDK if the methodologies/science is reliable, etc., but it just seems like this has become more pervasive.

CathyinSWPA

palm oil

Tree nuts.

In today's news it's fruit juice and, the old favorite, bacon. Fruit juice?! Really?!

There is a point about the juice and it's not new. A generation ago, parents were told to give their kids fruit juice (real juice) if they wanted them to have something sweet because it was healthier than soft drinks. Both soft drinks and juice used to come in small servings, and were treats. So parents are now loading up their kids on large amounts of sweet juice and it's bad for their teeth, sugar intake and desire to eat whole fruit, which has fiber and peels (where the vitamins are) and are generally better for them. So the Pediatricians have put out another warning, especially about giving a lot of juice to infants who need milk, and pointed out the problems that older kids have with too much juice as well. One serving of juice isn't the issue. :)

I thought avocados were good? ( Not that I care about any of this stuff)

Nobody's gonna take my avocados from me!!!

Oh, Avocados were bad for you in the 90s, but now are good for you.

Today i was reminded of how the parents of my children's generation were cautioned to not let their babies anywhere near peanuts. Now we have a generation of pre-teens/teenagers who are allergic to peanuts. And, the scientists are now recommending that parents start introducing their babies to special peanut products so they WON"T develop an allergy to ...... peanuts.

I never bought into any of the bad for you hype. I never believed that the food people have been eating for thousands of years--meat, eggs, coconut, butter, etc-- was bad for you and something industrialized and highly processed was better.

Now, that said, while I eat grass fed meat, I eat a lot more vegetables than I do meat and I buy organic when I have to buy something that I haven't grown. I go for whole grains over processed and I eat very, very little sugar. I long ago quit fruit juices in favor of the fruit itself--the fruit fiber slows down the sugar uptake. I do have a small piece of 88-90% chocolate almost every day along with some nuts, sometimes shredded coconut and with fresh or dried fruit--dessert after dinner.

Paleo! I'm not eating raw corn and dirt, no matter how healthy people say it is.

Vegan! Sure, here are the eleven foods you can eat. Sorry if you starve.

Diets in general are both impossible to follow and rarely produce long-lasting results. Healthy living and healthy eating go hand in hand. Too much of anything, other than sex, is bad for you. I have both high blood pressure and high cholesterol so I take meds for them and avoid salt and too much fat. But give up a hot dog and french fries? Not in this lifetime.

Ricky, I agree, all things in moderation including moderation. I also have high cholesteral due to my genetic makeup and take medication. I didn't have high blood pressure until menopause, and salt doesn't seem to affect it one way or another.

I grow much of my own food, watch the fats/salt/additives, eat lots of vegetables. I still need to lose weight, and I'm a picky eater, so those paleo/vegan/SouthBeach things are definitely not happening in my life. I even struggle with Weight Watchers because I don't eat fruit, yogurt is slimy, I want vegetables cooked rather than raw and I don't eat iceburg lettuce unless forced. So I can have anything I want, but if I use up points I have to have a pile of leaves and the dreaded fruit the rest of the day, so I end up eating nothing rather than something I don't like.

Good/bad? Agave syrup can go in there. It was nectar of the gods, a panacea for everything. Then it wasn't, it's basically the same as sugar or corn syrup as your body metabolizes it. Soy milk is vile anyway so now I'm glad it's been replaced by nut milks, which will be bad for you tomorrow.

As Michael Pollen says: Eat real food, not too much, mostly plants. I'd add that you should make that food organic when you can, and avoid all those "cides" that are meant to kill things. My old doctor told me to "eat less, move more" and that if I wanted a treat I could have it but only eat half. That works better for me than cutting out any food group absent allergies or other health issues.

As for that egg a day thing, it's old new to me, LOL. My old doc told me when talking about cholesterol that eating an egg a day made a difference in cholesterol and heart disease that was "statistically insignificant" and encouraged me to continue my daily farm raised organically fed high Omega 3 egg. I happily followed that advice.

Annie