It's super easy to fall into a food binary: There are good foods and bad foods, and that's it. "I really want people to get out of this mentality that foods are either good or bad. There are definitely some foods that we should eat more frequently, but it's not so black and white," says Alexon.
"Think of it like a traffic light: green stands for vegetables, particularly non-starchy vegetables, and you should eat as many as you want. Yellow stands for foods a little higher in refined carbs or sugar, like fruits — they're not bad for you, but you shouldn't eat a ton of them every day. And then you have the red light — high-carbs and high-fat, which should be eaten in small quantities," Alexon says. It's not about overly restricted diets, but about finding a balance.
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