# What's the best food for me?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-food-for-me/737733>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 16, 2015, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-food-for-me/737733 "2015-11-16T20:47:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![JakeRS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ab097/32.png) [@JakeRS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JakeRS)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2015, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-food-for-me/737733/1 "2015-11-16T20:47:38Z")

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Hi everyone, basically I have a small problem with eating. I can’t eat a lot, I usually eat food that is for lunch, but then I am finished and I can’t eat any cake or anything else that may come after lunch (like for example during holidays). I weigh slightly less than I should. Also due to a lot of reasons, including laziness, I never workout (but funny enough, even though I am skinny and don’t work out, I can still do more push ups than most of my friends who are taller, stronger, eat regularly,etc.) Back to the topic, I decided to finally do work out, but only basic stuff, running, squats, pushups and other stuff you can do at home, but I absolutely don’t want to be a bodybuilder, to go the gym, no big muscles or anything, just enough to be of at least average strenght. So having in mind that I can’t eat a lot, what would be the best food for me, that is…what food is the most nutritious? I have a friend who is crazy about bodybuilding, but his whole life is revolving around that, so most of the stuff he eats is stuff that is weird for most people, so I don’t want that, I just want something as a ,bonus" that I can eat next to my regular food. For example I read somewhere that bananas are highly nutritional, so stuff like that. Also, when looking at product declarations, what is the thing I should look for mostly, calories/energy, proteins, carbohydrates or what? I have no idea what any of those things really are, so I never really paid attention.

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**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2015, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-food-for-me/737733/2 "2015-11-16T21:15:58Z")

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If you don’t have issues with lactose, try milk. Eggs are good for protein as well.

There is no “one food that is the most nutritious”. Eat a little bit of everything.

What you do is probably more important than what you eat. Get a chin up bar, and do two or three sets each of pushups, chinups, squats, and crunches before your run. Eat a reasonable diet and you will find yourself at a healthy weight before too long.

Regards,  
Shodan

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**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2015, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-food-for-me/737733/3 "2015-11-16T22:44:53Z")

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**Moderator Action**

While some of this is factual, what is best is ultimately going to be a matter of opinion. So off to IMHO it goes.

Note that factual information such as an explanation of what proteins and carbohydrates are may still be posted in IMHO.