Tag: Plant based

Feed Your Immune System

At this time of year, when cases of flu and COVID are rising, as well as RSV in children, it’s good to be reminded of what we can do …

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 …

Superfood! Quinoa

Quinoa is an ancient, plant-based seed that has been cultivated in the Andes for 7000 years.  It is a pseudo-cereal that cooks and eats like a grain but is …

Red Meat, Your Gut, and Your Heart

When you eat red meat, your gut produces a substance during digestion and metabolism called trimethylamine N-oxide, or TMAO.  Studies have linked TMAO with heart disease, showing that those …

An Avocado a Week for Your Heart

A new study has been published in the Journal of the American Heart Association finding that eating two servings of avocado a week, with each serving being half of an avocado, …

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 …

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