Thursday, May 15, 2014

Let Food be Your Medicine

Borrowed from Reader's Digest by Nancy Kalish

Hippocrates noted that those who are very fat were more apt to die younger than those who are thin. He, also, recognized that when people ate mainly a fresh, plant-based diet, they developed fewer diseases. His primary way of treatment was usually improving that patient's diet.

According to cardiologist, Joel Kahn, MD, following a diet based on unprocessed foods, colorful plants, & very little sugar will help you live longer & healthier. A 2013 study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that those who ate a Mediterranean-type of diet were 30% less likely to have a heart attack or stroke than those who followed a low-fat diet. Processed foods with sugar, animal saturated fats & trans fats, and artificial chemicals can activate disease-causing genes that may have stayed dormant otherwise. They, also, lack the healthy nutrients that activated protective genes per Dr. Kahn.

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