Human Food

If you were a turtle buff and were to buy a very expensive rare exotic turtle certainly some certain guidelines for it's health would be important. First a clean stress free bowl with fresh water. Then you would certainly want this prized possession to be healthy, you would feed it turtle food. I'm not talking about some kind of pellet feed you sprinkle in the bowl. This rare turtle has special specific dietary needs, and you would make sure his turtle food would be carrots and other similar vegetation that the turtle was meant to eat. Why? Because you love your turtle.

Now let's suppose you are a giant turtle, about 40 ft tall. You want to buy a pet human. Feeding it is important to it's health. It would be cheap and convenient to feed your pet human some hot dogs and chicken nuggets, and maybe some cookies to fatten your human up, but you decide that you want your pet human to be a healthy long lived happy specimen and the envy of of all your other giant turtle friends in your neighborhood. Plus humans are very prone to sickness and disease. So healthy human food it is!

So what does a human eat? and what is human food? These are two questions with two different answers. What humans desire to consume and what they are meant to consume are two different things.

Humans don't usually come with an instruction manual, and if you don't keep an eye on them they are apt to put all sorts of vile things in their mouth. So below is a very simple basic outline of human food.

1. Vegetables.
2. Fruits and Berries.
3. Protein: Lean meat, fish, eggs, fowl, and game.
4. Healthy Fats: Olive oil, avocado, nuts, seeds, tropical oils, fish oils.
5. Dairy: (for those that tolerate dairy) Milk, cheese, yogurt and fermented dairy.
6. Starches: Oats, quinoa, sweet potatoes.
7. Water.

Of course there are times when going outside the boundaries is ok. Allow some cheats and treats.
As a general rule, foods usually should be consumed in the rawest form that is reasonably edible, and food should be minimally processed. Avoid sugar as best possible.
If it wasn't on the Earth 10,000 years ago then don't put it into your body.


“A turtle travels only when it sticks its neck out.”
~Korean Proverb