Is it me, or every time you open a Newspaper, turn on the News, or look on a News Website, there's another article on a food that was good for you last week, and now is supposedly bad for you. It seems everyday, something ELSE is bad for you. Is it all true though? I remember a few months ago, the news came up with something being bad; so, I kept off eating it for a while. Then, the next week, it apparently helps lower blood pressure or... something like that.

So what are your views on this? Do you go by everything in the newspapers? Or do you just ignore them, and eat what you think is healthy? Let us know!

no i dont really care about those things. i just make websites

Well the way i look at it is this. if eating food is gonna give me cancer or something (which is the usual thing they say) Then i would naturally try to void it. Yet there's a reasonable chance ill get some form of cancer anyway so im not going to waste my life eating wheat and drinking water and nothing else just on the chance i might not get cancer, which in likelihood wont kill me anyway. It's just a waste of a life.

Sure im all for extending my life but not at the cost of the enjoyment, theres no point in a long boring life if i can have a reasonably long fun life, its only going to be a few years anyway!

Not only that but it seems the media and the human race in general is more obsessed with negative consequences than positive ones.

the amount of things that 'cause' cancer is growing... but then again i remember there was a simmilar trend between cow flatulence and the hole in the o-zone layer...

I don't really care about them. Sometimes, the research results conflict, like in one research article, it will say that coffee is good for you and you should drink more of it, but in another, it says coffee is bad and you should abstain from drinking it. So what do you do then?

Basically I just use my common sense and basic knowledge to decide what's good for myself.

It seems that every day the papers have a new 'superfood' and something else that will kill you by the end of the week. Personally I take no notice of them. I always use the DHMO controversy as a great example of not to believe everything you read Newspapers, magazines and websites all go for headlines that will grab your attention and make you read more. What is more attention grabbing than telling you they have found something that could lengthen your life, or is potentially taking years off it?

Everything in moderation is probably the simplest and the best advice when it comes to food.

And that's all it probably is. A publicity stunt for new and current news media. They don't supply us with the good info'. It's generally just "THIS WILL KILL U. SO KEEP OFF IT" type headlines.

Every now and then... a research team comes up with new stats about some food which increases the chance of cancer or heart attack by some percent ...but most of them are not worth giving notice....or at least following them in our routine...it is all media hype....

just use your basic knowledge....there is no point taking all of them seriously....
as far as i am concerned i dont care about such things....

[From a parody of the Australian current affairs show Today Tonight. Alright, so that wasn't the exact quote, but it was basically what it was trying to say.]

Almost everything's good in moderation.
Too much of anything can kill you.

A little bit of wine is supposedly good for you - and yet, you could easily die of alcohol poisoning by drinking too much. A bit of fat is good - fat is vital to survival - but you can always develop weight problems which delivers an plethora of health risks. rvalkass really touched on the point by bringing up dihydrogen monoxide.