Diversity in Diet, Important for Health
Dear Friends
Does the key to our overall good health have anything to do with eating more fruits and vegetables? When the Harvard School of Public Health recommends we eat between 5 to 13 servings of fruits and vegetables a day, variety rules. As the article says, “More Matters,” but why?
Our early beginnings as a human species were spent as hunters and gatherers (foragers and scavengers). We lived with nature and ate from her table wildcrafted roots, nuts, seeds, fruits and vegetables. Our genes, our metabolic and physiologic pathways depended on a diversity of nutrients in order for these pathways to fully reflect and manifest our full genetic potential.
Today what do we do? The average American eats somewhere between 1 to 3 servings of fruits and vegetable a day and this puts our population at risk to chronic degenerative diseases. Check out Raj Patel’s illuminating book, Stuffed and Starved. There are now in the world over a billion people who are starving and a billion people who are overweight. Both groups are basically malnourished.
It is tough to change our diets and add 13 servings of fruits and veggies. Even harder is the fact that fast foods are addicting. Even when we eat healthy foods we have a tendency to “narrow down” and select the same foods over and over again. But the reality is that the pathways to health can get turned on by bringing in the full spectrum of nutrients from fruits and vegetables. And, this is another reason why we designed the therapeutic foods supplements. We felt we needed to expand our own diets! These products are meant to elegantly bring into our diets the powerful metabolic and health enhancing diverse nutrients that fruits and vegetables provide. They are meant to make any diet more potent.
Sincerely yours,
Seann Bardell
Clinical Notes:
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