The interesting thing about the list of nutrient rich foods is that the list is larger than any other class of foods.
When creating your nutrient rich foods and shopping list you want to choose from the five first class food categories 80-90% of the time or more and then focus on eating great tasting nutrient rich foods, making great tasting meals and menus from these foods.
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What’s nutrient-rich eating? Just consider a 100 Calorie Pack of Hostess Twinkie Bites. Sure, it only contains 100 calories, 2.5 grams fat, 1 gram saturated fat and 160 milligrams of sodium in three tiny cakes, but what kind of nutritional reward do you get for that 100-calorie investment?
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Though micronutrient density is critically important, it is not the only factor that determines health. For example Vitamin D levels, B12, and proper omega-3 intake are important for optimal long-term health as well as avoidance of sodium and other toxic excesses. These concerns are not addressed in the H = N/C equation. However, if the focus is consuming more micronutrient-rich natural foods then the other important nutritional benefits automatically will follow, such as lower sodium, reduced calories, high fiber and volume, a low glycemic index, and a high satiety and phytochemical index to name a few.
A 90% nutrient rich plant-based diet with smaller amounts of nutrient poor animal products (if you eat them) and even smaller amounts of nutrient barren refined foods (if you eat them at all), is the ideal way to look at the argument.
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Thousands who have recovered from their medical problems have been calling Dr. Fuhrman‘s Eat For Health program a medical miracle. We are not just talking about the people who have lost their excess weight after failing for years on one diet after another, but diseases, such as heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, allergies, asthma, autoimmune illnesses (including lupus) and headaches have simply melted away.
As I listened to this presentation, I was surrounded by the same group of people I remember seeing at Atkins events years ago (I used to attend for insight into that trend). Overweight people who are being misled by other overweight people who have good intentions but, need to open their minds and understand more than weight management and observational science, and the nutrient poor model of nutrition.
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Joel Fuhrman MD, the Nutritional Excellence guru of guru’s, has done it again!
His company just came out with Healthy Additions the line of soups that are Nutrient Rich for Superior Health!
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When weight gain is short term, all other lifestyle factors aside; it’s not just the food, it is the affect of the food that really makes the difference.
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With eating Nutrient Rich food being a PerformanceLifestyle solution, it is no wonder that this headline was very attractive. I saw this on the Internet today – you can see the 100 best foods for boosting productivity according to FoodProof.com. Now these may not actually be the 100 “best” foods according the nutrient profiles, but the
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This moderation in everything nutritional approach has been a disaster. It’s not even a nutritional principle, it’s an economic one. – John Allen Mollenhauer
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