By Many Requests! Here it is, A List of Healthy Foods! A must see if you want to lose weight!

Hey guys,

  Going with the theme of what is good for us what is bad for us, here is a chart that works well for giving you an idea of what are the best foods for you!  They are sorted by food groups, and you will notice that the font is colored.  The color of font gives it a rank as a healthy food.  The legend for the font colors is as follows:

-Green font - Great! ( low carbs, high polyunsaturated fats)

-Blue Font- Great! (low carbs, high saturated fats)

-Yellow Font- Good! (low carbs, high saturated fats)

-Purple Font- Acceptable (moderate carbs)

-Red Font- Okay (moderate carbs, low-moderate fats)

        This should be an easy way to help you decide what is healthy and what is not.  If it makes the list, it is alright to have but always try to be in the yellow and up!  To all you cheese lovers, you still have to keep your cheese consumption to a reasonable amount, so don't go eating a block of cheese after you read this.   These foods are chosen based off of the ketosis diet style, and more information on the keto diet concept can be found all over the internet.  To sum it up quickly, the idea is to keep the body in fat burning mode rather than carbs curbing mode, and it is affective and scientifically backed.  It does fit very similarly in all levels to the diet I preach, and all of these foods will work the same for our purposes.  

NOTE: While I agree with the low carb ideas of the keto diet, I do still recommend adding high protein instead of their recommend moderate protein.  If your body was a brick house protein would be the bricks.  They will be nothing but positive and shouldn't be avoided.   

Food Group	Food Items
Cheese	American Cheese Blue Cheese Cheddar Cheese Cottage Cheese, 1% milkfat Cream Cheese Feta Cheese Gouda Cheese Mozzarella Cheese, whole milk Parmesan Cheese Provolone Cheese Ricotta Cheese, whole milk Swiss Cheese
Dairy	Almond Milk (unsweetened) Coconut Cream Coconut Milk (unsweetened) Egg Greek Yogurt, whole milk Heavy Cream Soy Milk (unsweetened) Whipped Cream (unsweetened)
Dressings	Balsamic Vinegar Blue Cheese Creamy Ceaser Ranch
Fats and Oils	Almond Butter Almond Oil Avocado Oil Butter Canola Oil Cocoa Butter Coconut Oil Fish Oil (cod liver) Flax Seed Oil Grape Seed Oil Hemp Seed Oil Lard Macadamia Oil Mayonnaise Olive Oil Peanut Butter Peanut Oil Safflower Oil Sesame Oil Soybean Oil Sunflower Oil Sunflower Butter Vegetable Oil Walnut Oil
Seafood	Anchovy Bass Burbot Carp Cavier Flounder Haddock Halibut Herring Mackerel Salmon Sardines Sole Tilapia Trout Tuna Tuna (canned) Clams Crabmeat Lobster Mussels Oysters Shrimp Squid
Flours, Meals, and Powders	Acorn Flour Almond Flour Almond Meal Cocoa Powder (high saturated fat) Flax Seed Meal Protein Powder Psyllium Husk Sesame Seed Flour Splenda
Poultry and Fowl	Chicken, Breast Chicken, Legs Chicken, Wings Duck Goose Quail Turkey, breast Turkey, ground Turkey, bacon
Fruits (low sugar)	Avocado Blackberry Cranberry Lemon Lime Green Olive Raspberry Rhubarb Tomato
Fruits (moderate sugar)	Apple Strawberry Watermelon
Meat	Beef, corned Beef, Ground 70-90% lean Beef, Hot Dog/Frankfurter Beef, Ribs Beef, Roast Beef, Pastrami Beef, Sausage Beef, Steak, Filet Mignon Beef, Steak, Ribeye Beef, Steak, Round Beef, Steak, Sirloin Beef, Steak, Striploin Beef, Tongue Balogna (pork, beef, chicken) Lamb, Chops Pepperoni (pork, beef) Pork, Bacon Pork, Chops Pork, Ham, 11% Pork, Liverwurst Pork, Loin Pork, Prosciutto Pork, Sausage Veal Venison, Steak
Nuts/Legumes	Almonds Brazilnuts Cashews Coconut (high saturated fat) Hazelnuts Macadamias Peanuts Pecans Pistachios Walnuts
Seeds	Chia Seeds Flax Seeds Hemp Seeds Pumpkin Seeds Safflower Seeds Sesame Seeds Sunflower Seeds
Vegetables (low sugar)	Arugula Asparagus Bok Choy Broccoli Broccoli Rabe Cabbage Cauliflower, raw Celery Chard Chicory Greens Cucumber Eggplant Endive Fennel bulb Garlic Green Bean Jalapeno Lettuce, Grean Leaf Lettuce, Romaine Parsley Radish Spinach Soy Bean Zucchini
Vegetables (moderate sugar)	Artichoke Brussel Sprouts Carrots, raw Celeriac Kale Kohlrabi Mushrooms Okra Onion Pepper, sweet, red Pepper, sweet, red Pepper, hot, red Pepper, sweet, yellow Pumpkin Snow Pea Spaghetti Squash Turnips

Cheers guys! Hope this helps answer all those questions, and help get you eating all the healthy options there are!  It's not just spinach and chicken, there are a ton of healthy options!

Ryan Trueman


Chart credit to: contraros.com