It's been known for many decades that health and longevity are largely dependent on a wholesome diet and regular exercise.
The problem is, educating people from childhood onwards what constitutes a healthy and wholesome diet. There is endless controversy about this, which is influenced by the producers of processed foods and the producers of expensive weight-loss diets.
For many years, saturated fats were demonised, similar to the demonisation of CO2, but it is now claimed by many authorities that saturated fats are beneficial, provided one doesn't eat them to excess.
I enjoy full cream milk, pure butter, virgin coconut oil, and grass-fed beef. No health problems so far, at the age of nearly 77.
I eat plenty of vegetables and whole fruit. I avoid pure fruit juice because it contains high quantities of fructose which is claimed to interfere with the body's natural sensation of satiety, contributing to the high incidence of obesity in Western societies because most processed food contains added sugar in the form of fructose.
I've always preferred whole meal bread and whole grain brown rice, because they contain more minerals, vitamins and fibre than the highly processed white product.
I'm amazed that despite the sound scientific evidence that whole grain brown rice is more nutritious than white rice, it's almost impossible to find a restaurant that offers brown rice on its menu. In my lifetime so far, I've discovered just 2 restaurants that have brown rice on their menu. One was in Pokhara, Nepal, and the other I came across recently in a hotel restaurant in Bangkok.
