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10 Rules to Eat Safely for Life. (Very Good Advice).
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From Mark Hyman, MD
10 Rules to Eat Safely for Life (and What to Remove From Your Kitchen)
Every day you have to navigate a toxic nutritional landscape. You have to hunt and gather in a food desert. You have to survive the American supermarket and dodge the dangers of industrial food. The good news is that if you follow 10 simple rules you can eat safely for life.
Think of them as shortcuts or tricks to use when shopping or eating. If you just do these things and nothing else, you will automatically be eating real, fresh food that will prevent, treat and even reverse most of the chronic diseases that drain our energy, stress our families and deplete our economy. You don't even have to understand anything about nutrition. Just follow these goof-proof rules for getting healthy, losing weight and feeling great.
Ideally have only food without labels in your kitchen or foods that don't come in a box, a package or a can. There are labeled foods that are great, like sardines, artichoke hearts, or roasted red peppers, but you have to be very smart in reading the labels. There are two things to look for: the ingredient list and the nutrition facts. Check out my special report on "How to Read Labels" for more information.
Where is the primary ingredient on the list? If the real food is at the end of the list and the sugar or salt is at the beginning, beware. The most abundant ingredient is listed first and the others are listed in descending order by weight. Be conscious, too, of ingredients that may not be on the list; some ingredients may be exempt from labels. This is often true if the food is in a very small package, if it has been prepared in the store, or if it has been made by a small manufacturer. Beware of these foods.
If a food has a label it should have fewer than five ingredients. If it has more than five ingredients, throw it out. Also beware of food with health claims on the label. They are usually bad for you -- think "sports beverages." I recently saw a bag of deep-fried potato chips with the health claims "gluten-free, organic, no artificial ingredients, no sugar" and with fewer than five ingredients listed. Sounds great, right? But remember, cola is 100 percent fat-free and that doesn't make it a health food.
If sugar (by any name, including organic cane juice, honey, agave, maple syrup, cane syrup, or molasses) is on the label, throw it out. There may be up to 33 teaspoons of sugar in the average bottle of ketchup. Same goes for white rice and white flour, which act just like sugar in the body. If you have diabesity -- the spectrum of metabolic imbalances starting with just a little belly fat, leading all the way to diabetes -- you can't easily handle any flour, even whole-grain. Throw it out.
Throw out any food with high-fructose corn syrup on the label. It is a super sweet liquid sugar that takes no energy for the body to process. Some high-fructose corn syrup also contains mercury as a by-product of the manufacturing process. Many liquid calories, such as sodas, juices, and "sports" drinks contain this metabolic poison. It always signals low quality or processed food.
Throw out any food with the word hydrogenated on the label. This is an indicator of trans fats, vegetable oils converted through a chemical process into margarine or shortening. They are good for keeping cookies on the shelf for long periods of time without going stale, but these fats have been proven to cause heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. New York City and most European counties have banned trans fats, and you should, too.
Throw out any highly-refined cooking oils such as corn, soy, etc. (I explain which oils to buy in Week 1 of the program in my book The Blood Sugar Solution). Also avoid toxic fats and fried foods.
Throw out any food with ingredients you can't recognize, pronounce, or that are in Latin.
Throw out any foods with preservatives, additives, coloring or dyes, "natural flavorings," or flavor enhancers such as MSG (monosodium glutamate).
Throw out food with artificial sweeteners of all kinds (aspartame, Splenda, sucralose, and sugar alcohols -- any word that ends with "ol" like xylitol, sorbitol). They make you hungrier, slow your metabolism, give you bad gas, and make you store belly fat.
If it came from the earth or a farmer's field, not a food chemist's lab, it's safe to eat. As Michael Pollan says, if it was grown on a plant, not made in a plant, then you can keep it in your kitchen. If it is something your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food, throw it out (like a "lunchable" or go-gurt"). Stay away from "food-like substances."
That's it -- just 10 simple goof-proof rules for staying healthy for life. It is a simple recipe for staying out of trouble and automatically leads you to a real whole foods diet. And the side effect will be weight loss, energy, reduction in the need for medication and saving our nation from the tsunami of chronic disease and Pharmageddon!
When you make these simple choices you will not only improve your health, and your family's health, but you will create a "wellness spring" that will shift the demand in the marketplace. You will not only take back your health, but also help America take back its health. You vote three times a day with your fork and it impacts our health, how we grow food, energy consumption, climate change and environmental degradation. You have more power than you think. Use it!
My personal hope is that together we can create a national conversation about a real, practical solution for the prevention, treatment, and reversal of our obesity, diabetes and chronic disease epidemic.
Mark Hyman, MD
To learn more and to get a free sneak preview of The Blood Sugar Solution go to www.drhyman.com.
Mark Hyman, M.D. is a practicing physician, founder of The UltraWellness Center
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Thanks Much.
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GASMETERGUY
That is great.
I don't know about the pine bark, but take a look at this:
http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/healthy-eating/health-starts-here/resources-and-tools/top-ten-andi-scores
Copy and paste, cause here links are not clickable.
Otherwise:
Top Ten ANDI Scores
ANDI stands for "Aggregate Nutrient Density Index." An ANDI score shows the nutrient density of a food on a scale from 1 to 1000 based on nutrient content. ANDI scores are calculated by evaluating an extensive range of micronutrients, including vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals and antioxidant capacities.
ANDI Score
1. Mustard/Turnip/Collard Greens
1000
2. Kale
1000
3. Watercress
1000
4. Bok Choy/Baby Bok Choy
824
5. Spinach
739
6. Broccoli Rabe
715
7. Chinese/Napa Cabbage
704
8. Brussels Sprouts
672
9. Swiss Chard
670
10. Arugula
559
NONGREEN VEGETABLES
Vegetable
ANDI Score
1. Radish
554
2. Bean Sprouts
444
3. Red Pepper
366
4. Radicchio
359
5. Turnip
337
6. Carrot
336
7. Cauliflower
295
8. Artichoke
244
9. Tomato
190
10. Butternut Squash
156
FRUIT
Fruit
ANDI Score
1. Strawberries
212
2. Blackberries
178
3. Plum
157
4. Raspberries
145
5. Blueberries
130
6. Papaya
118
7. Orange
109
8. Cantaloupe
100
9. Kiwi
97
10. Watermelon
91
11. Peach
73
12. Apple
72
13. Cherries
68
14. Pineapple
64
15. Apricot
60
Beans
Vegetable
ANDI Score
1. Lentils
104
2. Red Kidney Beans
100
3. Great Northern Beans
94
4. Adzuki Beans
84
5. Black Beans
83
6. Black-Eyed Peas
82
7. Pinto Beans
61
8. Edamame
58
9. Split Peas
58
10. Chickpeas (Garbanzos)
57
Nuts & Seeds
Nuts & Seeds
ANDI Score
1. Sunflower Seeds
78
2. Sesame Seeds
65
3. Flax Seeds
65
4. Pumpkin Seeds
52
5. Pistachios
48
6. Pecans
41
7. Almonds
38
8. Walnuts
34
9. Hazelnuts
32
10. Cashews
27
It doesn't show-up right here, better look at their page, use the link that I posted.
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