I recently read/listened to on cd Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto. In it Pollan's overarching advice is "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." He has plenty of other interesting things to say as well.
Taking issue with processed food, he recommends not eating food your grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. Ask your grandmother what's in bread and she'll say flour, water, yeast, and salt. Pick up a bag of bread from an industrial bakery and you could find a list of 22 ingredients. All that extra stuff is for mainly for preservation, emulsification, and taste. Meanwhile an apple only has one ingredient - they don't even have to have an ingredients label. And it's good for you.
So he suggests staying away from food products with more than 5 ingredients when possible as well as anything with ingredients you can't pronounce or which included high fructose corn syrup.
It's definitely something to think about.
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