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The "Superfood" fad

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    FADS

  • There are foods out there with "super" abilities

  • These "superfoods" are the only thing you should eat

  • These "superfoods" are the only foods that can cure ailments

  • A "Superfood" diet of bananas can cure celiac disease

All food is SUPER

FACTS​​​

  • 2 types of nutrients you get from food Macronutrients and Micronutrients

  • Macronutrients include:

  1. Carbohydrates​

  2. Lipids

  3. Proteins

  • Micronutrients include:

  1. Co-enzymes (vitamins)​

  2. Co-factors (minerals)

  • All food supplies the bodies cells with Macro and Micro nutrients

 

History

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The term "Superfoods" was created around 1918 during WWI by a company named "United Fruit Company" as a strategy to market bananas (Davis, 2021)

The term was then manipulated by a bunch of physicians to promote a new "banana diet" to help fight celiac disease and diabetes right after the introduction to the term "superfoods (source, 2022)

The Why?

Why is it important to point out the fallacy of the term "Superfoods"?

  1. This type of marketing is subject to manipulation from other sources

  2.  This marketing strategy takes away from the actual science of a "balanced plate" that actually supplies all humans with the much-needed macronutrients and micronutrients they need.

The Where

If you find yourself confused and need to find a place where information is science based and unmanipulated try looking into the Myplate.gov site. Where you can find valuable information 

  1. What a balanced diet looks like

  2. Proportions to that balanced diet  (as seen in the picture to the right)

  3. Where to find foods you may be looking for to include in your balanced diet

  4. Recipes  (to help you balance your diet")                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      MyPlate 

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Sources cited 

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Davis, U. (2021, March 9). What makes superfoods so super. Retrieved from UC Davis: https://www.ucdavis.edu/food/what-makes-superfood-so-super#:~:text=The%20origin%20of%20the%20term,of%20cheap%2C%20easily%20digestible%20nutrition.

 

source, T. n. (2022, May 1). The nutrition source. Retrieved from Harvard T.H. Chan school of public health: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/superfoods/

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