Healthy eating, what the food scientists won't tell you and why eating a healthy diet is just about eating natural healthy food and not packaged, processed rubbish

I don't think a week goes by without some scientist coming out with the results of research telling us that something we eat is unhealthy and we should be eating something that can only be obtained in certain prepared foods. I have always believed that healthy eating and a healthy diet was simply eating natural products.

Has it ever occurred to you that most of the diet research that is done by scientists is actually funded by the large food companies and not by governments? In fact, it wasn't so long ago that the tobacco companies were paying scientists to come up with research to prove that smoking wasn't just bad for you but in some cases that it was actually beneficial because it helped you concentrate and reduced stress.

Food scientists are employed by the large food companies to come up with products that are supposedly good for you to eat. I actually believe that processed food is most likely detrimental to your health, is not a healthy way of eating and provides little or no nutritional value.

Healthy eating is all about having a healthy lifestyle that includes eating meat, fish, vegetables, fruit, natural oils and fats, carbohydrates, corn and grain and simply eating them in moderation and the right order.

Dieting is about following a healthy diet that includes natural, non manufactured or interfered with food and burning off more calories than you consume. You will lose weight if you burn calories and you will put on weight if you don't exercise and store calories. Simple mathematics and commonsense.

I will say it again. The French diet includes just about everything that food scientists tell us we shouldn't eat and yet the French are the slimmest, healthiest nation in Europe.

Most people have been hijacked and corrupted by scientists working for food companies who prepare research aimed entirely at convincing us that we should be eating their products.

For over a century they have been telling us that red meat is bad for us and that we should be eating breakfast cereals, battery farmed chicken and tinned tuna. Red meat is bad for you if you eat it every day in the same way as you can get carotene if you eat too many carrots. If you do anything to excess it is bad for you; some scientists have tried to convince us that too much sex is bad for us but I am definitely not falling for that one. Frankly I don't care if it does kill me.

Red meat carries essential proteins we need to repair tissue. Eating red meat twice a week isn't going to harm you; it will do you a power of good. And I wouldn't recommend having the butcher cut the fat off. Some fat on your meat won't hurt you, fat does not make you fat and the French eat it in abundance.

Towards the latter half of the last century, scientists started telling us that fat made us fat and was harmful to our hearts and increased cholesterol levels. Low fat diets rob us of essential fats and oils, and Omega 3. All of these things, in moderation do us good, build up our immune systems, help us keep mentally alert and from getting depressed. A low fat diet is most likely going to make you fat.

Now some doctors and scientists are telling us that carbohydrates are bad for us and we shouldn't eat potatoes, rice and pasta. Hang on a minute; don't the Japanese eat a lot of rice and aren't they slim? I don't count Sumo wrestlers of course, who follow a special diet. Italy is the second slimmest nation in Europe and don't they eat a lot of pasta? Poland is also ranked in the top seven thinnest nation sin Europe And what is their staple diet? Red meat and potatoes.

Someone is either lying, being lenient with the truth or totally stupid. I opt for all three.

So now we have a population eating less potatoes, rice, grain, corn, bread and pasta and growing fatter by the minute. Why? Because they are eating manufactured and processed foods; many of which claim to be healthy but are in fact slowly killing them.

Before I go on to reveal what Paul Herbert thinks we should never eat... if you're interested in this topic, you should read his book.

The reality is, if you want to lose weight and remain healthy for as long as possible, all you have to do is follow a healthy diet.