Also, you are more likely to get
bored of a whole foods diet if you always eat the same things.
Not exact matches
A
whole food, plant - based
diet has been scientifically proven to prevent and even reverse a litany
of food and lifestyle -
borne illnesses, including heart disease and type 2 diabetes — modern plagues on the developed world.
It might sound extreme to you, but if you want to self - experiment, you could try going on the equivalent
of the RICE
diet and eat some what might seem like mind - numbingly
boring food (plain brown rice, plain sweet potatoes, steamed vegetables,
whole fruits that get dietary fats and protein waaaay down for 3 - 4 weeks to see if your cholesterol doesn't respond.
But, based on the fact that most eating a
whole foods diet (little to no processed, prepared, or restaurant
foods) ingest far less salt than realized, (and far less than what the boatload
of salt most Americans ingest in the processed
foods), you'll likely want to include salt to be in the optimal bell curve, and based on the autoimmune associations, I'd choose sea or Himalayan salt (and consider the need for some
of that added to be iodized given the borderline deficiency for women
of child -
bearing age).
I was
born and raised in Vermont on a
diet of fresh,
whole foods, and was the pinnacle
of youthful health.