A healthy meal has a variety of whole foods A healthy meal is based on whole foods. The foundation is a variety of fresh vegetables. Best is a mix of both raw and cooked vegetables. Most should be complex carbohydrates…
Legumes Create A Personal Blue Zone
Legumes are part of a healthy whole food diet One of the best healthy diet tips I can give is to eat more legumes. As more studies are done and analyzed, it is becoming obvious that a whole food diet…
How Not To Die by Michael Greger, M.D.
How Not To Die How Not To Die is written by Micheal Greger, M.D. with Gene Stone. This book was published in late 2015 by Flatiron Books, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. There are 562 pages including an…
For More Nutrition, Don’t Peel Veggies
Why we should not peel our fruits and vegetables If you want to get more nutrition from all of your fruits and vegetables, stop peeling them and eat the skin, too. And with the price of food these days, I…
A Whole Food Diet For Everyone
What is a whole food diet? A whole food diet means eating real food as close to the way nature provides it as possible. It is eating food that our great grandparents would recognize. Whole food diets consist of whole…
Health News Headlines For June 2015
More and more studies show solid evidence of the health benefits of eating whole food diets The Mediterranean Diet seems to lower uterine cancer risk in women: http://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20150527/mediterranean-diet-tied-to-lower-odds-of-uterine-cancer?src=RSS_PUBLIC Fruits have several highly positive effects on health despite a high sugar…
“The Anti-Cancer Diet” Book Review
About “The Anti-Cancer Diet” “The Anti-Cancer Diet” was written by David Khayat, M.D. in 2010 and translated into English in 2015 from the original French. Doctor Khayat was the main architect of France’s national campaign to reduce cancer rates during…
Why We Should All Care About Being Healthy
Health matters Life is short. Make it longer by staying as healthy as possible. Enjoy it more by avoiding chronic, disabling diseases caused by poor choices in diet and lifestyle. And it seems pretty certain that the most common problems…
My Thoughts On Juicing
Juicing Today Juicing is popular among people who want to be healthy and get proper nutrition. Fresh vegetable juices have gained a dedicated following that is still growing and has many well-known advocates. Juicing has become a modern health phenomenon.…