Interesting website: World's Healthiest Foods

[pegkerr]

For those of you, like me, who are trying to get healthier (hey, all you SparkPeople!), I have found an interesting website called The World's Healthiest Foods. I have set up a syndicated feed for it, at whfoods. It has very detailed nutritional information on these foods, with recipes to suggest so you can incorporate them into your diet. Criteria for inclusion:

1. Most nutritionally dense
2. Whole foods
3. Familiar foods
4. Readily available
5. Affordable
6. Taste good.

Also you might find the Food Advisor on this site to be interesting, a survey you can take which suggests foods you might want to incorporate into your diet, based on your age, gender, personal lifestyle and individual health needs.

Interesting site. It is set up as a non-for-profit, to enable them, they say, to maintain an independent perspective on nutrition research. Worth checking out.

Comments

[althea_valara]

:D I found the World's Healthiest Foods a few months back, when a sudden burst of energy after eating sea scallops made me curious as to their nutritional properties. It's a really fascinating site. Thanks for setting up a feed for it!

[queenbookwench.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting this--I hadn't come across this site before, and it looks really good. Have you seen/read the book Real Food by Nina Planck? She grew up on a working farm, and has some interesting thoughts on nutrition and the pleasures of eating.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

I have heard of the book, although I haven't read it. Sounds interesting; I'll add it to my mental checklist of books to check out. Thanks.

[nickel234.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that!

And how do you set up a feed for these things - you seem to be an expert! :)

[jbru.livejournal.com]

All your questions are answered in the FAQ. (He said with sacred intonation.) in this case, FAQ Question #137.

[nickel234.livejournal.com]

*bows before the sacred information giver* Thank you very much!

[nickel234.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I think I just made one of a comic I like!!! THANK YOU!!!

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

If you want to set up a feed for any website, look for a link which says "RSS" or "XML." Once you find it, copy the link and then go to the LiveJournal syndication page here. Enter the link into the box at the bottom of the page ("Add Feed by URL"). If somebody has already set up a feed for that RSS link, it will give you the LJ name for that feed, and you can friend it. If not, it will prompt you to give the feed a name, and that will set it up.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Excellent - thank you for the links. Very useful information.

[jbru.livejournal.com]

Cool! Ericka and I both want to eat better but have a hard time figuring out how to do that. Familiar, available and nutritionally dense foods will help. Of course, since she's a vegetarian, we'll have to figure out some options to their meat and fish recipes, but the list of foods is a good place to start.