Food Is Medicine: 20 Natural Painkillers in your Kitchen
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Food Is Medicine: 20 Natural Painkillers in your Kitchen
BY ANTRANIK – APRIL 8, 2013
In many ways, we don’t really need much advice because we already know basically what we should do:
- Eat a variety of foods, especially whole grains, fruits, and vegetables.
- Minimize candy, soda and other empty calories.
- Watch how much we eat.
- Do some physical activity every day.
As a nation, we are increasingly eating more processed foods. Our supermarkets are full of convenient packaged foods that appeal to our taste buds, but compromise our nutrition. In addition, we are eating less variety of foods. Ironically, while 17,000 new products are introduced each year, two-thirds of our calories come from just four foods: corn, soy, wheat, and rice.
(Pie chart showing two-thirds of the calories we consume come from corn, soy, rice, and wheat.)
Nor is our food the same as it was 20 years ago. Nutrients in the soil have been depleted, so food grown in that soil has fewer nutrients. Chemicals are increasingly used in raising both plants and animals, particularly on huge industrial farms that specialize in a few products.
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Food Is Medicine: 20 Natural Painkillers in your Kitchen