PlantPowerNutrition

Here's a great little website dedicated to getting us to consume leafy green vegetables on the regular. It's really easy once you start to keep them in your diet as you will feel the difference in energy & a lightness in your step. The proliferation of beneficial nutrients throughout your entire body is what makes leafy greens so powerful.

Stop spending so much $$$ on supplements & start drinking your greens!

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Contrary to popular belief, healthy whole foods can actually taste good. The reason most of us keep coming back to less than healthy food choices is due to our adaptation to artificially-concentrated food additives.

If you read that last statement carefully you might've picked up that it's not necessarily the wrong foods that we are hooked on but rather certain additives that the food industry has meticulously implemented across the board. I believe the main culprits to our health-compromising food addictions are added sugar, oil, & salt.

To put this into perspective let's look at some of today's most popular foods, starting with french fries. If you were to remove the oil & salt, you'd have a completely different product with a vastly improved nutritional profile. Next up is cheese. If you were to take out the oil & salt it would taste entirely less pleasing (to most). Last up is ice cream. This is by far one of the most addicting foods as it contains the trifecta of sugar, oil, & salt. As does chocolate.

The more of these types of foods we consume, as well as many foods we consider to be of a healthy nature, the more our taste buds adapt to such artificially concentrated foods. As this occurs we then find healthy, whole foods in their natural context to be much less appealing.

There is hope! In much the same way that we've adapted to artificially concentrated foods, we can also train ourselves to get just as much enjoyment out of eating the right foods. Foods which promote health & well-being at all levels of our existence. Tomorrow I'll be discussing how we can beat our food addictions. Until then, eat plenty of fruits & veggies!

A big shout out to Stacy Best for being our 100th like! To know that we provide useful information & resources that enable people to better understand the truth about the intersection of food & health is of great satisfaction. That being said, we refuse to rest on our laurels! Thanx to all & I sincerely hope you are able to see past the veil that our modern food industry has clouded our vision with.

As our 100th Facebook 'like' Stacy will be receiving a vegetarian starter kit along with some sample plant-based whole-food meals. Bon Appetite!