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Food compass rankings miss how good foods help health
Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, Joe Biden’s new Public Health nutrition advisor and a Tufts University ‘Health Professor’, has been part of a team that claims that processed, high sugar foods such as Lucky Charms, Sweet Potato Fries, chocolate almonds and Honey Nut Cheerios are healthier than lean, skinless chicken, a poached egg or whole grain foods. To quote: “The Tufts Food…
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What is the Valter Longo Fasting-mimicking Diet (FMD)?
The Fasting-mimicking Diet (FMD) is a 5-day per month protocol, where you typically consume 34-54% less calories than usual, by cutting protein levels and inducing beneficial hormone changes; it is essentially a low-cal Mediterranean Diet. The Fasting-Mimicking diet was originated by Professor Valter Longo stemming from his research at the University of Southern California Longevity Institute. By consuming a calorie…
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What is the Mediterranean diet, or Rainbow Diet
The colourful Mediterranean Diet is a totally natural diet used for thousands of years by a population that is both healthy and long- living; it is more than a diet, it is a way of life. Why do we call it the Rainbow Diet? Because there is no single Mediterranean Diet. It’s an American Research myth. The diet of a…
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