Manufactured Foods Are Not Nutritious
The Access to Nutrition Initiative has analyzed around 11,000 products from leading food companies including Kellogg, General Mills, Unilever, Kraft Heinz, and Nestle. They found that about 70% of …
Category: LIFE STYLE
Food Guidelines for Living Longer
What you eat, when you eat, and how much you eat all play a role in maximizing your health for longer life. A comprehensive study published in the journal …
Eat Less Meat to Lower Cancer Risk
A new study from Oxford University has found that vegetarians, pescatarians, and low meat-eaters have a lower risk of cancer. They studied 472,377 participants who were cancer-free at the …
Why Are Plant Foods So Important?
By now you’ve heard over and over that eating a plant-based/plant-forward diet is better for you and helps prevent disease, but you might not understand why. You know plant …
Live 13 Years Longer by going from SAD to Mostly Plant-Based
There is now more evidence that embracing a mostly plant-based diet in place of the Western or Standard American Diet (SAD), can help you live longer and better. A …
What You Gain When You Leave the SAD
As you make progress towards ditching the Standard American Diet and embrace a more healthful one like the Mediterranean diet, you will also reap numerous health benefits. This is …
Yes, You Can Eat These Foods!
As we mentioned previously, the Mediterranean diet is not so much a “diet” as it is a lifestyle. The wide variety of foods you can eat means you never …
Alternatives to SAD
Once you acknowledge how unhealthy the Standard American Diet (SAD) is, what do you do instead? For five years in a row, the Mediterranean diet has been rated the …
New Year’s/New Life Resolution
We are now officially into 2022 and we remain hopeful that this new year will be better than the last one, that we can put COVID in the rear …
Americans Are Addicted to ‘Ultra-Processed’ Foods, and It’s Killing Us
Explosive growth in “ultra-processed” foods that bear little resemblance to anything natural is behind a panoply of diseases. Policymakers are taking notice Source: Americans Are Addicted to ‘Ultra-Processed’ Foods, …
Heart-Healthy Eating Lifestyle
The American Heart Association has published a “2021 Dietary Guidance to Improve Cardiovascular Health” this week in their journal Circulation. This guidance focuses on the role that nutrition plays in …
Wrong Direction – More Ultra Processed Foods
A new study from the New York University School of Global Public Health has found that almost all segments of the US population have increased their consumption of ultra-processed …