Can you eat junk food and be healthy?

There’s a place for everything that’s tasty and enjoyable to eat in a healthy diet, that’s what I believe. I can also support this declaration with plenty of scientific literature showing that long lived communities as well as large cohorts in studies maintained health and avoided excessive weight gain without abstaining from dessert – traditional diets don’t declare abstinence from sweets or fried foods.

It’s the proportions that matter. If 90 percent of what you eat is nutritious you can play with the rest. If 80 percent of your days are reasonably active, hibernating couch-potato style on a lazy day will do no harm.

But here’s the problem: Our proportions have turned upside down, completely.?Read more