Public health organizations have told us for years to prioritize eating grains and to use industrial seed oils instead of eating nutrient dense, whole foods. Prioritizing refined carbohydrates over healthy protein and fat has led us to a generation of obese and ill people. Even children are being diagnosed with diabetes type 2 at younger and younger ages.

This study by Beal and Ortenzi shows us that eating a nutrient diet leads to optimal health. This study was done in order to identify the most nutrient dense foods for children. "We found that the top food sources of multiple priority micronutrients are organs, bivalves, crustaceans, fresh fish, goat, canned fish with bones, and eggs, closely followed by beef, lamb/mutton, dark green leafy vegetables, cow milk, yogurt, and cheese, and to a lesser extent, canned fish without bones." T;, Ortenzi F;Beal. “Priority Micronutrient Density of Foods for Complementary Feeding of Young Children (6-23 Months) in South and Southeast Asia.” Frontiers in Nutrition, U.S. National Library of Medicine, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34993221/.

A nutrient diet should include foods such as:

full fat dairy

variety of animal proteins, including red meat

eating the animal nose to tail (including organ meats)

all the colors of vegetables

cooking with olive oil, butter, lard, ghee, avocado oil, or coconut oil

eggs (the whole egg)

a variety of seafood

fermented foods

Of course, each person should take into consideration their specific digestive concerns and if they have any food allergies. This also calls into question why so many people have food allergies. Could it be because we have been avoiding these real whole foods for such a long time? And can they heal from these allergies? This question is for another time and day.

Eating the way our ancestors ate, in the days before heart disease was rampant and diabetes was not a common disease, should be what our diets are based on. Get rid of your "heart healthy" oils like canola, corn, vegetable and crisco!

Start eating a variety of vegetable, seafood and animal proteins. Start cooking your foods in olive oil, butter, ghee, lard, avocado oil or coconut oil and start seeing a difference in your health!