Eat fiber foods for health and immunity Whether you get sick or not is determined by the strength of your immune system and dietary fiber is a major factor in increasing your immune system’s ability to fight disease. Fiber feeds your gut microbiome which is to say, poop. Poop, previously thought to be mere waste, …
You are rusting! You have seen pieces of metal that rust as they are being broken down by oxygen. This is called oxidation, and as we age, we too are oxidizing. Oxidation breaks down our cells, causing them to age and die. They can damage our genes which, if not repaired, can cause mutations resulting …
Cheese is unhealthy Think cheese is a health food? It is one of the unhealthiest foods we can eat. Cheese is extremely highly processed. Cheese is 70% of calories from fat, most of it is saturated fat which is the worst kind, and loaded with salt.1 It makes us fat and sick with heart disease, …
But where do you get your protein and calcium? When someone finds out you are a vegetarian or vegan they will often ask this kind of question. It is conventional wisdom that protein comes from meat and calcium comes from dairy. The dairy industry spends over one billion dollars annually on advertising to convince the …
Food is expensive. Food is expensive and, while middle-income families spent $7,061 or 14.3 percent of their income on food, the lowest-income households spent $4,070 on food in 2017, which is 34.1 percent of their income.1 Fast food and processed food may be convenient, but is it as cheap as people think? Are you trapped …
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What you absorb is critical. Many people have the idea that simply eating lower-calorie food will result in weight loss and better health. This is only partially true. What is more important is how many calories generating nutrients you absorb. Let’s look at three factors that affect absorption: the form of the food, fiber in …
A Healthy Diet Results in a Healthy Immune System It is constantly reported that those who are most affected by the COVID-19 virus have weak, unhealthy immune systems. There is an abundance of research cited on my web page Eatveggies.org showing that a Whole Food Plant-Based (WFPB) lifestyle is the healthiest diet, so why not …
There is a lot of controversy about the importance of eating breakfast. What does science say about skipping breakfast? Is it really an important meal? Several studies have tested different eating patterns to see what is healthiest. This applies to weight gain and even heart disease and type 2 diabetes. One thing we know is …
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