7 Common Foods that Are Incredibly Healthy for You
Even better than most fancy and expensive superfoods
Being a health zealot, my mom has always loaded our family’s meals with all kinds of “superfoods “—exotic fruits, complex-sounding “extracts”, and powdered “unheard-of” nuts.
But when I joined college and started living by myself, I neither had the time nor the patience for fancy meals — easily available “normal” foods made up my diet.
And in those 3 years, I surprisingly maintained the same level of health. And my fitness? I actually upgraded it.
Caught up in the superfood fad, we’ve overlooked some of the healthiest “common” foods — treasures hidden in plain sight. I want to share 7 such foods with you.
Whole Eggs
Eggs are complete meals by themselves — filling, protein-rich, laced with healthy omega-6 fatty acids, and treasure-troves of vitamins and minerals.
And most of this is in the yellow yolk — which we discard, citing the purported bad cholesterol increase which no studies have found a direct link to. Infact, newer studies say that dietary cholesterol intake does not even matter.
Egg whites are protein-only shells. Everything else is in the yolk — close to 50% of the egg’s…
