What Is a Whole-Food, Plant-Based Diet?
A whole-food, plant-based diet is centered on whole, unrefined plants. It’s a diet based on fruits, vegetables, tubers, whole grains, and legumes; and it excludes meat, dairy products, and eggs, as well as highly refined foods like bleached flour, refined sugar, and oil.
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A whole-food, plant-based diet is centered on whole, unrefined plants. It’s a diet based on fruits, vegetables, tubers, whole grains, and legumes; and it excludes meat, dairy products, and eggs, as well as highly refined foods like bleached flour, refined sugar, and oil.
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Some Basic Guidelines on How to Eat a Plant Based Diet
8 principles and you may well find yourself becoming PLANT PERFECT!
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8 principles and you may well find yourself becoming PLANT PERFECT!
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Plant Foods Provide the Nutritional Building Blocks for Optimum Health
"Plant foods are the most abundant sources of nutrition on earth. Nutrients are the raw materials your body needs to function properly and can generally be split into two types – the ones your body can make by itself and the ones it can derive only from your food. The latter are called “essential” nutrients."
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"Plant foods are the most abundant sources of nutrition on earth. Nutrients are the raw materials your body needs to function properly and can generally be split into two types – the ones your body can make by itself and the ones it can derive only from your food. The latter are called “essential” nutrients."
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Get Dense: Why You Should Be Eating Foods With High ANDI Scores
"Dr Fuhrman’s system for rating the “nutrient density” of all foods is a can’t-miss reference for anyone looking to get the best quality foods into their bodies. ANDI stands for “Aggregate Nutrient Density Index. This index measures foods for a wide-array of nutritional qualities and rates them on a scale from 1 – 1000."
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"Dr Fuhrman’s system for rating the “nutrient density” of all foods is a can’t-miss reference for anyone looking to get the best quality foods into their bodies. ANDI stands for “Aggregate Nutrient Density Index. This index measures foods for a wide-array of nutritional qualities and rates them on a scale from 1 – 1000."
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Acid/Alkaline Food Chart
A great Acid/Alkaline food chart showing the pH of foods in relation to their effects on your body.
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A great Acid/Alkaline food chart showing the pH of foods in relation to their effects on your body.
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5 Signs You Should Be Eating More Carbs
"The terminology 'carbs' is thrown around a lot these days with most people not even knowing what the word really means. Carbohydrates are NOT a food group! To say you are not eating carbs is to also say you are not eating vegetables, fruit, pulses, tubers, nuts, seeds, and whole grains such as quinoa, millet, oats, buckwheat, rye etc. - all of which contain carbohydrates! Yes eating large amounts of refined and highly processed starch products are not good for you, but by eliminating or minimizing the mentioned list of healthful foods you are also eliminating necessary essential nutrients from your diet."
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"The terminology 'carbs' is thrown around a lot these days with most people not even knowing what the word really means. Carbohydrates are NOT a food group! To say you are not eating carbs is to also say you are not eating vegetables, fruit, pulses, tubers, nuts, seeds, and whole grains such as quinoa, millet, oats, buckwheat, rye etc. - all of which contain carbohydrates! Yes eating large amounts of refined and highly processed starch products are not good for you, but by eliminating or minimizing the mentioned list of healthful foods you are also eliminating necessary essential nutrients from your diet."
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New Nutrition Guidelines Recommend Foods For Preventing Cancer
"Exercise and a healthy diet have long been connected with a lower risk of cancer — but now, new research in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition is showing exactly what that healthy diet looks like. The overall recommendation is to favor plant-based foods."
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"Exercise and a healthy diet have long been connected with a lower risk of cancer — but now, new research in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition is showing exactly what that healthy diet looks like. The overall recommendation is to favor plant-based foods."
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