Friday Favorites: What Are the Best Foods?

A review of reviews on the health effects of animal foods versus plant foods.

This reminds me of my What Are the Healthiest Foods? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/what-are-the-healthiest-foods/) video, helpful for some broad takeaways.

If you missed the previous video, check out What Are the Best Beverages? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/what-are-the-best-beverages).

PS: The omega-3s video I mentioned is: Should Vegans Take DHA to Preserve Brain Function? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/should-vegans-take-dha-to-preserve-brain-function/).

For more on eggs, see, for example: <br />• Who Says Eggs Aren’t Healthy or Safe? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/who-says-eggs-arent-healthy-or-safe)
• How the Egg Board Designs Misleading Studies (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-the-egg-board-designs-misleading-studies/)
• When Low Risk Means High Risk (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/when-low-risk-means-high-risk)
• Eggs and Arterial Function (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/eggs-and-arterial-function)
• Debunking Egg Industry Myths (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/debunking-egg-industry-myths)
• Eggs and Diabetes (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/eggs-and-diabetes)
• Egg Industry Response to Choline and TMAO (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/egg-industry-response-to-choline-and-tmao)
• How Our Gut Bacteria Can Use Eggs to Accelerate Cancer (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/How-Our-Gut-Bacteria-Can-Use-Eggs-to-Accelerate-Cancer)
• Eggs and Breast Cancer (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/eggs-and-breast-cancer)
• Dietary Guidelines: “Eat as Little Dietary Cholesterol as Possible” (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/dietary-guidelines-eat-as-little-dietary-cholesterol-as-possible/?queryID=325b1cf68b4616c63df2dd2dc03b523e) />• Does Dietary Cholesterol (Eggs) Raise Blood Cholesterol? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/does-dietary-cholesterol-eggs-raise-blood-cholesterol)
• Dietary Cholesterol and Inflammation from Abdominal Obesity (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/dietary-cholesterol-and-inflammation-from-abdominal-obesity/)

For more on fish, see, for example:
• Fish Consumption and Suicide (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/fish-consumption-and-suicide)
• Fish and Diabetes (https://www.nutritionfacts.org/video/fish-and-diabetes)
• California Children Are Contaminated (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/california-children-are-contaminated)
• How Long to Detox from Fish Before Pregnancy (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-long-to-detox-from-fish-before-pregnancy)
• Omega 3’s and the Eskimo Fish Tale (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/omega-3s-and-the-eskimo-fish-tale)
• Is Fish “Brain Food” for Older Adults? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/fish-brain-food-older-adults)

For more on poultry, see, for example:
• Chicken Dioxins, Viruses, or Antibiotics? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/chicken-dioxins-viruses-or-antibiotics/)
• Past the Age of Miracles: Facing a Post-Antibiotic Age (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/past-the-age-of-miracles-facing-a-post-antibiotic-age/)
• Superbugs in Conventional vs. Organic Chicken (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/superbugs-in-conventional-vs-organic-chicken/)
• Urinary Tract Infections from Eating Chicken (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/urinary-tract-infections-from-eating-chicken)
• What About Kosher and Organic Chicken? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/what-about-kosher-and-organic-chicken)
• Chicken Big: Poultry and Obesity (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/Chicken-Big-Poultry-and-Obesity)
• The Role of Poultry Viruses in Human Cancers (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-role-of-poultry-viruses-in-human-cancers)

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-Michael Greger, MD FACLM

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31 Risposte a “Friday Favorites: What Are the Best Foods?”

  1. should I eat eggs and fish or poultry or not yes or not and if I don’t eat them what should I eat can you please tell me

  2. 3:33 – not sure what that method of argumentative string is called it autism-acktualy-land but:
    yes its correct but thats unfair framing
    a carni could for example say (with the same data btw!) that eating a diet that is 100% from fish is better than the suggested mixed plants foods diet then
    or alternatively they could say (by instead of looking at the positive) that "the negatives rnt that pronounces and that the positive/neutral overwhelm them yet still"

  3. a lot of plant based foods are horrible, like soda, french fries, doughnuts, cakes. that is how i was a morbidly obese vegan that got cancer. whole food plant based is the only way i am still alive. so being plant based is not nearly enough. just saying ..

  4. I fundamentally disagree with this dichotomy. I think it's cultish. Animal food vs plant food. Why divide foods along that line? Why not talk about foods on a case by case basis?

  5. interesting at 3.05 where the table shows animal based foods having a greater protective effect on mental health than plant based [50 vs 40]. That seems to be the only protective effect higher with animal based; any theories as to why animal based would be more protective of mental health?

  6. Being vegan and loving NutirionFacts, I'm a little surprised at the end of this video. Unusually Dr. Gregor uses a slippery method of comparison. At the end he says that the Animal foods are 8/10 "not good" whereas the plant foods are 9/10 "not bad". Following suit with this type of dubious parlance then, half the plant foods are "not good" and 3/4 the animal foods are "not bad".

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