Again, I’m using the colloquial rather than the botanical definition so, I place tomatoes in the Other Vegetables group.Ĭommon cruciferous vegetables include broccoli, cabbage, collards, and kale. While biologically speaking, avocados, bananas, and even watermelons are technically berries, I’m using the colloquial term for any small edible fruit, which is why I include kumquats and grapes-and raisins, as well as fruits that are typically thought of as berries, but actually technically aren’t, such as blackberries, cherries, mulberries, raspberries, and strawberries.įor other fruits, a serving is a medium-sized fruit, a cup of cut-up fruit, or a quarter-cup of dried fruit. Though peanuts are technically legumes, nutritionally, I’ve grouped them in the Nuts category, just as I would shunt green beans, snap peas, and string beans into the Other Vegetables category.Ī serving of berries is a half-cup fresh or frozen, or a quarter-cup of dried. A serving is defined as a quarter-cup of hummus or bean dip a half-cup of cooked beans, split peas, lentils, tofu, or tempeh or a full cup of fresh peas or sprouted lentils. We should try to get three servings a day. You know, while eating a bowl of pea soup or dipping carrots into hummus may not seem like eating beans, it certainly counts. This evolved, into my Daily Dozen: the checklist of all the things I try to fit into my daily routine.īy beans, I mean legumes, which also includes split peas, chickpeas, and lentils. Why does everything seem to have parsley in it all of a sudden?” or something! They’re very tolerant.Īs the list of foods I tried to fit into my daily diet grew, I made a checklist, and had it up on a little dry-erase board on the fridge, and we’d make a game out of ticking off the boxes. It seems like every time I come home from the medical library buzzing with some exciting new data, my family rolls their eyes, sighs, and asks, “What can’t we eat now?” Or, they’ll say, “Wait a second. ![]() (So technically, maybe I should be referring to a whole-food, plant and fungus-based diet, but that just sounds kind of gross.) And mushrooms aren’t even plants at all they belong to an entirely different biological classification, and may contain nutrients (like ergothioneine) not made anywhere in the plant kingdom. Flax may average a hundred times more lignans than other foods. It’s the same with flax seeds and the anticancer lignan compounds. You could eat tons of other kinds of greens and vegetables on a given day, and get no appreciable sulforaphane if you didn’t eat something cruciferous. For example, sulforaphane, the amazing liver-enzyme detox-boosting compound, is derived nearly exclusively from cruciferous vegetables. Some foods and food groups have special nutrients not found in abundance elsewhere. The more I’ve researched over the years, the more I’ve come to realize that healthy foods are not necessarily interchangeable. That would, by definition, be a whole-food, plant-based diet-but not a very healthy one. For example, you can apparently live extended periods eating practically nothing but white potatoes. But, some plants are healthier than others. ![]() In my book, How Not to Die, I suggest we try to center our diets around whole plant foods. In my book How Not to Die, I center my recommendations around a Daily Dozen checklist of all the healthiest of healthy foods I try to fit into my daily routine.Here’s a the system I’ve developed to help us make sense of it all. And, I’m here to bring you the latest peer-reviewed research to give you the tools to put it into practice. The vast majority of premature death and disability is preventable with a healthy enough diet and lifestyle. We have tremendous power over our health destiny and longevity. Michael Greger and I’m here to help you answer that question. ![]() What’s the best way to live a longer, healthier life? Diet? Exercise? Both-eating healthy while doing jumping jacks? Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast.
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