Do you want to significantly reduce your risk of:
* I link to all of the scientific articles, but it'd take too long. For more info check out the excellent "How Not to Die" book
- Coronary heart disease
- Lung disease
- Brain disease
- Digestive Cancers
- Infections
- Type 2 diabetes
- High blood pressure
- Liver disease
- Blood Cancers
- Kidney disease
- Breast cancer
- Suicidal depression
- Prostate cancer
- and Parkinson's disease?
Then eat
- Beans
- Berries
- A variety of fruit
- Cruciferous vegetables
- Greens
- Other types of vegetables
- Flaxseed
- Nuts and seeds
- Herbs and spices, especially turmeric
- Wholegrains
- Beverages such as water and tea
and throw in some exercise and you'll be good*.
Notice that all of those are plant-based foods. Not a drop of dairy or a modicum of meat is present.
I know this stuff. I listen to hours of podcasts of this stuff. Yet I have a habit of eating sugar-laden highly processed crap. Not even a modicum of meat though. I am so over meat.
If I am to get healthy again, then that will require eating a whole-food planted based diet and incorporating all of those foods above. If I nail this, I'll be 80% of the way there.
Not more sugar-laden crap, which is, without doubt, my kryptonite.
Notice that all of those are plant-based foods. Not a drop of dairy or a modicum of meat is present.
I know this stuff. I listen to hours of podcasts of this stuff. Yet I have a habit of eating sugar-laden highly processed crap. Not even a modicum of meat though. I am so over meat.
If I am to get healthy again, then that will require eating a whole-food planted based diet and incorporating all of those foods above. If I nail this, I'll be 80% of the way there.
Not more sugar-laden crap, which is, without doubt, my kryptonite.
I went grocery shopping yesterday so I could stock on healthy foods.
Today I am eating
Today I am eating
- Summertime oatmeal for breakfast
- Curried chickpea wraps with a juiced vegetable blend for lunch
- Super salad with Garlic Caesar dressing and Alfredo Zucchini noodles for dinner
- Strawberry Banana Nice Cream for dessert
* I link to all of the scientific articles, but it'd take too long. For more info check out the excellent "How Not to Die" book
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