5 Healthy foods that have been demonized

With the recent increase in health awareness among the general populace, food has become a very contentious topic. Everyday mainstream media bombards us with articles talking about some study mentioning how a particular food is bad for you. Things have come to a point where barring fruits and veggies everything else has been shown to be poisonous for you some way or the other. Infact a lot of fruits and veggies have also been shown to be bad for you.

We are now living in the times when people are avoiding the foods that humans have consumed for thousands of years. It is strange to see that people are ready to discard the knowledge gained by our ancestors over thousands of years for some scientific study that they have not even read. What you need to understand is that scientific studies are never black and white. No scientific study will straight away mention that a particular food is good or bad for you. There are a lot of nuances surrounding the results of scientific studies, which mainstream media cuts out to make the results more digestible for common population. Add to this the sensational element that mainstream media has to add in order to get people to read their articles and you can understand where things will head. There are a lot of great foods that have come under attack in the recent years. In this article we will talk about 5 popular foods that humans have been consuming for thousands of year, which have suddenly come under a lot of attack. Most of these foods are animal based and part of the reason for their criticism also comes from the animal rights community.

Milk: Humans have been consuming milk of other animals since the Neolithic times more than ten thousand years ago. Milk is a wholesome food… 5 Healthy foods that have been demonized