When I first entered the healthy eating field 33 years ago, I excitedly read article after article about new health studies. But after a couple years, things got a little boring.<\/p>\n
I had hoped to uncover some crown jewels, i.e., the key secrets to healthy eating. While I came across a couple small and exciting nuggets here and there, for the most part every article ended with the same, boring advice: Eat lots of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, nuts, seeds, and animal or other protein, i.e., a real whole food diet.*<\/p>\n
I started collecting articles on all the different diseases and conditions that had the same advice. I stopped after reaching 25, but with my article on brain health<\/a>, I must now add brain health to make it 26!<\/p>\n With such a preponderance of evidence for the real, whole food diet, maybe there’s something to this “boring” prescription?!!<\/p>\n *Note that not one article recommended eating not-foods like vending machine cookies, cheese flavored snacks or frozen pot pies!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I first entered the healthy eating field 33 years ago, I excitedly read article after article about new health studies. But after a couple years, things got a little boring. I had hoped to uncover some crown jewels, i.e., the key secrets to healthy eating. While I came across a couple small and exciting … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6320,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6318\/revisions\/6320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}