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These foods don't deserve their bad reputations, dietitians and doctors say (www.nbcnews.com)

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Eggs, coffee and potatoes are among the foods health experts think get a bad rap for bad reasons.

Eggs, potatoes, coffee: These kitchen staples, among others, have gained bad reputations, nutrition experts say, but don’t necessarily deserve it. In fact, registered dietitians, doctors and nutrition professors are increasingly advising people to eat them.

Nutrition advice is ever changing, which can leave consumers uncertain about which foods are actually healthy. NBC News asked nine health experts about the foods they think have been wrongly villainized. Here are some of the items they listed and the benefits people may miss out on if they forgo them entirely.

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[–] SLVRDRGN -5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

If the eggs you're eating, the coffee beans you're grinding, potatoes you're growing are done with responsible practices, organic, and preferably from small scale farms (generally how things ought to be if giant corporations weren't involved in our food), these things wouldn't be perceived this way at all.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Please explain what makes "organic" vegetables healthier, because you'll win a Nobel prize for the work if you find evidence confirming any actual health benefits.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

People often use the word organic where they should be using sustainable. We need to avoid the cut down more forest after the patch of cut down forest that was being worked becomes infertile a few years later. And we need to assure pesticides and fertilizer are well regulated and prevented from over use and run off. But sadly, as "organic" is now more marketing term than anything else, we need to stop using the word.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Organic was never anything but a marketing term. I agree that we need better farming practices as well as an iverhaul of what we grow, especially in the US. Taking the billions soent on feed grain subsidies and using the money to pivot farmers to actual food for people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Both false and irrelevant, well done.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Isn't the article about nutrition?