To remain healthy and to become healthier we should know what has helped us and others in the past and be prayerful (to Christ, to God) about what to do now if we have even any doubt whatsoever about what's good for our bodies and minds.
Eating and drinking so, exercising often and properly, and enriching (even ameliorating) our psyches, our minds, our souls is part of good living.
We can exercise by dancing, by working out at a gym, by playing sports, and by exploring nature.
Listening to and playing good music with good timing and volume adds to our holistic health too (of body and mind, individually to globally).
Educational entertainment such as reading poetry (e.g. Rupi Kaur holding her book below) also supports our well-being.
Continuing, good discernment of scientific efforts, both in the past and recently, supports our health when faithfully acted upon. At its best, discernment includes prayerfulness and "critical thinking"*, logical reasoning about that which is of utmost import whilst also heeding the varied communications and signs of God about matters of importance and urgency (God who surely is able to reason and even beyond our notions of it).
My own discernment of my experience including scientific research is that (imprudently) manufactured chemicals and over-processed food amalgamations (such as "monosodium glutamate", a flavonoid, and "sulfur dioxide", a toxic preservative) are not good for our bodies whatsoever.
In comparison all natural, wholesome foods (without herbicides nor pesticides similar to "Roundup" used on them at any time) are good for us including genuinely "organic" fruits, sprouts, nuts and vegetables which pass sensory discernment (smells wholly good, tastes wholly good, etcetera) in such as the produce section of good health-food / grocery stores.
To restate this for added emphasis, fruits and vegetables should never be exposed to pesticides nor herbicides (chemicals that surely may detract from our bodily health if ingested, even if we were unaware of or denying this).
left: good fruit
right: unhealthy processed food (eventually chemicals such as "sodium tripolyphosphate" cause illness if consumed)
To restate this for added emphasis, fruits and vegetables should never be exposed to pesticides nor herbicides (chemicals that surely may detract from our bodily health if ingested, even if we were unaware of or denying this).
We should not eat crackers nor cereal with so-called preservatives that would be taxing to our livers (all of them except naturally occurring salts).
We should not consume "dirty" apples (contaminated with pesticides / herbicides) discernible by smell)
We should also not drink bottled water with fake minerals such as Dasani which multiple people told me tastes bad. Chemical amalgamations that aren't nutritive minerals include "calcium carbonate", "magnesium chloride", etc.
We should not ingest such as "Sunny D" (containing the toxic chemical "Yellow 6") when good oranges and fresh orange juice with all of the pulp are available.
Only truly good water like Ozarka and Arrowhead spring water and Crystal Geyser alkaline water are worth buying and drinking.
My preliminary professional opinion is that ALL manmade chemicals added to food have been, with few to no exceptions, deleterious to our health.
This has been the result of succumbing to greed, not caring about long term prosperity nor trusting God and people to help us earn a living virtuously (which I'm proud of having done my whole life).
Restating, these are bad for us: "BHT" (causative of cancerous illness), "high fructose corn syrup" (causative of diabetes), "magnesium carbonate" (a pseudo-mineral, not nutritive), etc. The articles linked below support this:
Top 6 Dangers of Maltodextrin and 5 Healthier Substitutes (powerfoodhealth.com)
Is Yellow 6 Bad For You? - Here Is Your Answer. (isitbadforyou.com)
Good farming and gardening, good agrarian stewardship, makes no concessions for today if it too costs our future. This is unfortunately what occurred when monocropping caused the Dust Bowl of the 1930s and the consequence of Monsanto's greed and negligence was glyphosate runoff causing celiac disease (https://youtu.be/TYTsQbahME0?si=_ITFFm7Jxr7KXip_).
To summarize, if it's a manufactured chemical refrain from consuming it. If it's an untampered with product of Mother Nature, it may be good. Smell it, pray about it, touch it, search online about it,... whatever you gotta do to be sure it's okay to eat.
As lagniappe for you (a Creole expression for "a lil' something extra") please buy and recommend only the Natural American Spirit brand of cigarette until and unless other brands follow suit. They've refrained from mixing harmful additives with tobacco that when burned create carcinogens that have caused lung cancer. This is the only brand I'm aware of that does not mix chemical additives hoping to addict people to their cigarettes in with tobacco.
* The Dalai Lama, quoted in I Am, the movie:
Question for the Dalai Lama: “What’s the most important meditation we can do now?”
Answer: “Critical thinking, followed by action. Discern what your world is. Know the plot, the scenario of this human drama. And then figure out where your talents might fit in to make a better world.”
(source: https://calvincorreli.com/blog/1957-critical-thinking-followed-by-action)
