Beans are great cancer fighters. Try this easy and tasty recipe. This recipe is an all around winner. Enjoy!
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Known as poor man’s food in Italy, this meal is fit to serve a king!
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Making herbs a regular part of the diet is a super idea as many are a great source of antioxidants.
Yields approximately 1 ½ cups
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I’m not talking about the cost of your Cheez Whiz Corn Dog fix, your soda splurge, or Five For Five Meal Deal.
This meta analysis of 330 studies correlated diet with it’s related economic consequences. The variables were CVD costs as a function of the consumption of salt/sodium, fruit and vegetables, meat, and saturated fat.
In the United States, reducing individual sodium intake to 2,300 mg/day from the current level could potentially save $1,990.9/person per year for hypertension treatment, …. Increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables from <0.5 cup/day to >1.5 cups/day could save $1,568.0/person per year in treatment costs for CVD, based on a cohort study.
This makes it really hard to argue that eating healthy is more expensive!
This study points out that regular nut consumption reduces cardiovascular disease risk, partly from improvements to dietary quality. And the nutrients that are increased when you eat them (particularly, in this case, hazelnuts) include fiber, protein, total fat, MUFA, PUFA, potassium, folate, and vitamin E.
This may be because nuts (in this study it was almonds) can lower total and LDL cholesterol, effectively cleaning up your blood from the harmful effects of the bad cholesterol. Pistachios too also lower the bad stuff, and increase the good stuff.
The point is that, if you need a snack, reach for the nuts because they’re super heart healthy — as well as being delicious!!
I read the title of this study: “Anti-inflammatory activity of natural stilbenoids”.
Oooh, neat. Natural Stilbenoids!! A new term!! I don’t know what a stilbenoid even is, much less a “natural” one.
Does that mean there are UNnatural stilbenoids? SUPERnatural stilbenoids?
And, these natural guys are apparently anti-inflammatory, which means that they could be good for a billion reasons inside your body. So what are they?
[SIGH]
It’s a little ordinary actually. Stilbenoids are just the class of molecules found in wine, berries, etc. So when you hear people go on about them in the news, you might want to have a nice glass of wine, some blackberries, and read something else.
In a massive Meta-analysis — a study of studies — involving over 1 Million people, researchers concluded. “Current meta-analysis indicates that both fish and … PUFA consumption are inversely associated with risk of all-cause mortality.”
In other words, when fish consumption goes up, risk of death goes down. Wow.
What are PUFAs?? There are two main types of them — omega-3 and omega 6 polyunsaturated fatty acids. Omega-3 essential fatty acids are found in fatty fish, shellfish, liver, and in some seeds like flax.
And, obviously, there’s nothing you can’t OVER-CONSUME and make it bad for you. So if you eat meat, make the primary source of that meat be fish!
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