I much prefer to
see whole food sources of vitamins and minerals.
Not exact matches
Look for it at local farmer's markets (if you are coastal), I've
seen a range at
Whole Foods Markets, as well as other natural
foods sources.
In severe case where they wouldn't sleep for weeks (while I started
seeing mailboxes as men in black hats), I gave them milk with L - tryptophan from a
whole foods source.
See my video Forego Fat - Free Dressings?Oil would work, but
whole food sources of fat (and other nutrients!)
But, if we start getting our sugar from natural
sources like
whole fruits and vegetables and buy less sweets, maybe we'll
see the previously impossible: a failed sugary
food company.
* IF * we maintain adequate omega - 3 (preferably from combination of omega -3-rich
sources such as walnut, flax and preformed DHA / EPA from algae oil) and do our best to avoid extracted oils in general (
whole food,
whole food,
whole food), I don't
see any reason to obsess about the n - 6 to n - 3 ratio when it comes to nuts.
The value of
whole natural
foods as
sources of B1 is easy to
see in our WHFoods recipes.
Isn't it just common sense to
see that the «western diet's» lack of an abundance of
whole, unprocessed, plant based
foods - and also the fact that meats and processed
foods can be a
source for synthetic ingredients, harmful chemicals, and hormones - is causing problems for a lot of people, and that eating healthier will help stop those diseases from occurring.
So many great replies here but just to add, almost all interviews I've
seen with Dr Greger he says he has no problem with fats from
whole food plant based
sources such as nuts, avocado, seeds... eaten in the context of a WFPB diet that includes his other recommendations on wholegrains, fruit, vegetables, and legumes.
I would like to
see these studies followed up with addition of specific nutrients to study protein - nutrient interactions and then with
whole food sources of protein such as meat.
Almost all of the homemade recipes we've
seen lack vitamin E. Vitamin E is difficult to add using
whole foods because most vitamin E
sources are high in calories.