My Dad told me at thanksgiving that you could live on yams alone. Not sure how healthy that would be, but it gave me a question. If you could only eat four foods on some island, what would you want them to be?
I know i'd want one of them to be chicken. Seems the more protein i eat the less hungry i am.
I have a book called "Superfoods", lists the 14 superfoods, but each has at least 3 or 4 "sidekicks" in case you're not real fond of those foods. So it adds up to close to 100 foods, but you should eat most of these superfood groups daily.
The 3 he lists as most important: spinach, blueberries, and salmon. Salmon does not have to be eaten daily, the other 2 should. "sidekicks" for spinach include romaine, kale, most greens and bell peppers, and for blueberries any berries are fine(acai?). but anyway, according to this dude, you'd want to stick with spinach, berries, and some kind of fish similar to salmon as foods to eat.
btw, pumkin is one of this superfoods, and yams are one of the sidekicks.
I said one of the four foods i'd bring would be chicken because of the protein. I think another i'd bring is boccoli. I heard it has a real good usable source of calcium and it's a green vegetable. I'd eat it raw to keep the enzymes good.
I know alot of food and I like blueberries, salmon, milk, bananas, and broccoli with any whole wheat or grains added to the diet. I make home made soups very often, when possible, I try to add spinach to all my soups.