How to maintain a balanced diet without eliminating from your plate

PRINCE GEORGE— Every day it seems like their is a new top ten list of foods that are bad for you and while some foods are healthier than others it’s a spectrum of choices that lead to a healthy lifestyle.

“the thing about it is people always tend to categorize foods as either healthy or unhealthy or call them bad foods or junk foods, or I ate something that was bad and then it vilifies foods,” explians registered dietitian Sherry Ogasawara. “Really then it starts to take on a bit more power in our diets, in our psyche, and that itself is not so good.

As an example processed food is often vilified but can be an important part of food preservation. Sherry uses apple sauce as an example as its a processed food that’s healthy as it only contains some salt sugar cinnamon and citric acid but something ultra-processed like an apple turnover from a fast food restaurant will contain a laundry list of ingredients that are hard to comprehend.