Sentences with phrase «ancient diet made»

The people of Greece have been staying healthy and slim since the days of Aristotle and Plato eating a traditional or ancient diet made up of mainly...

Not exact matches

Most ancient grains maintain a high nutritional profile, especially if you compare it to common bleached wheat flour that makes up the basis of our standard American diet.

They are made with non-GMO soy and wheat, ancient grains and veggies and remarkably have a similar taste and texture to real chicken breast — they are also work for those of you who keep vegan and kosher diets.

«We aren't trying to make barley a fad diet, but we're telling people «Hey, here's a modern version of an ancient grain, and it's good for you!»»

Ancient Incas, who made quinoa part of their diet, first soaked it and then fermented it before cooking in an effort to reduce its potential toxicity — two instructions you'll rarely ever see on the side of a box of quinoa.

As fermented foods expert Sally Fallon asks in Nourishing Traditions, with the proliferation of all these new mysterious viruses, intestinal parasites and chronic health problems, despite ubiquitous sanitation, «Could it be that by abandoning the ancient practice of pasteurisation, and insisting on a diet in which everything has been micro-organisms have compromised the health of our intestinal flora and made ourselves vulnerable to legions of pathogenic microorganisms?»

Another great thing about focusing on health and fitness (which go hand in hand) and not focusing on weight is that when you're not actually depriving yourself (granted you have to eat WFPB but you can make AMAZING recipes with this diet... I found even pasta was fine for me, but I used quinoa and / or lentil pasta, Ancient Harvest is really good) you don't end up binging on junk food.

I don't idealize the ancient diet, because we can't really fully know it, but realistically I'd have to guess that besides plants (and bugs), like someone else mentioned, it probably included whatever else was easy to procure, (considering it wouldn't make sense to expend more calories hunting down food than you would receive from consuming it) like mussels, clams, crabs, snails, some fish, maybe small animals, but I bet the taste for meat came from observing REAL carnivores consuming flesh, and maybe leaving carcasses behind.

Barley played an important role in ancient Greek culture as a staple bread - making grain as well as an important food for athletes, who attributed much of their strength to their barley - containing training diets.

Diets that contain ancient grains make up another category that, while still small, bears watching.