Is “eating healthy” more about eating good food or not eating bad food?
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Its easier just to say we lack dietary fiber in our diets. The reason being shipping weight; they want to reduce those costs so they take the fiber out. No big deal right? Its indigestible anyway. Except thats the point, it slows absorption of other things on purpose, notably fructose.
The other thing you could easily classify eating healthy into is food prep and storage. Theres a danger zone of cooking food, know as between 5°C and 60°C, where bacterial growth can occur that is harmful to us. Lesser well known is the type of meats that exist and how we cook these to destroy any possible harmful bacteria/parasites.
Beef is known as ‘internally sterile’ in this regard, so you’ll see the ‘rare’ and ‘medium-rare’ and ‘well done’ as options for it, but never for poultry. The density of the meat is different.
Seafood is also a special case. Those creatures live at much colder(on average) temps and the main source of delaying food spoilage is refrigeration/freezing. However the bacteria evolved to eat them is more resistant to cold, so they spoil quicker because of it.
If we ignore fiber and food prep though, the main health issue with food is widespread overweight/obesity. This is quantity of food energy, not its type. If you eat more kcal than you needed per day, the excess is stored as fat.
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