Healthy foods, Toxicology of foods.

We do NOT need endless tail of food additives, especially foreign ones (bio-chemically useless or even disruptive, anti-nutritional), to be attached to our vital nutrients. All those additives serve solely commercial goals of the food industry, not us. Therefore:

A healthy food must be a NUTRITIONAL food. This is the QUALITY requirement for our diet.


The QUANTITY of a healthy food eaten is equally important. The problem is that we tend to overeat and that the moderate amount varies greatly from a person to person and, therefore, cannot be of the same quantity for everyone. However understanding the basic principles of toxicology may provide us with some guidance. All things are poison and nothing is without poison; only the dose makes a thing not a poison. In other words, the core principle of Toxicology says: Everything has its toxic quantity.

This is a very strong statement which has a critically important application in our diet:

Even the healthiest food can be TOXIC if eaten in large excess. While a toxicity threshold may be different for different people, the more you eat the higher are chances that you approach, reach or exceed YOUR toxic dose. This means ihttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gift is NOT safe to regularly eat out no matter how nutritional and safe is the food.

So the toxicity of a food is a matter of the amount of food or beverage we consumed. Water intoxication is a bright evidence of that principle in operation. Of course, the toxic amount (dose) of “junk food,” or alcoholic beverages are even smaller. Therefore, the second condition for a person trying to switch for a healthy diet is to practice MODERATION:

A healthy diet is a NUTRITIONAL food eaten in MODERATION.

An important hint to eating in moderation is to balance the energy intake with the energy expenditure. What is normal for a hard-working man may be way too much for a procrastinator.

A healthy life style is the one based on a NUTRITIONAL food eaten in MODERATION balanced with enough of physical and mental work.


While human biochemistry is flexible enough so we can handle tremendous variations and deviations in our food, diet and the lifestyle without getting badly ill for a long time, on one day we will be forced to make a “healthy” decision, if we want to keep enjoying the life for longer.

Here is an important conclusion which may be of use for many:
No healthy diet can be designed based on foods that contain FOREIGN (anti-nutritional) food additives. Hence, for instance, most of the “diet” and “zero calories” soft drinks cannot be a part of a healthy diet. They do introduce foreign food additives like sugar substitutes, preservatives and/or food dyes . So, elimination of all the anti-nutritional food additives from our diet is a very important first step towards a healthy diet.