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April 15, 2009

What Does Eating Right Mean/Hair Loss

Filed under: Hair Loss Information — Marilyn Robinson @ 9:26 am

What Does Eating Right Mean?

Eating right can mean different things to different people. To some, eating right means ordering the small fries at McDonald’s with their Big Mac, rather than the large. To others, it means having a diet coke with their pizza.

A plant-based diet doesn’t mean being a vegetarian, although it’s fine if you want to follow a vegetarian diet. Plant-based eating simply means that the majority of your calories come from minimally processed plant foods, such as vegetables, fruit, and whole grains.

If you divide your plate into quarters, three of those quarters should be covered by vegetables, fruit, and whole grains. The remaining one-quarter will be your lean protein, such as beans, chicken, or fish.

Focus on foods that are low on the food chain. The closer a food is to its natural form, or what it looks like when it comes out of the ground or off the tree or vine, the more cancer-preventive benefit it has. Stick to unprocessed items such as vegetables, fruit, nuts and seeds, whole grains, and beans (legumes), all of which are known cancer fighters.
Go easy on the meat. Regular consumption of red meat, especially if it is cooked at high temperature, grilled, or charred, has been linked with increased risk of colon cancer. When the fat and protein in meat are heated to high temperature or char-grilled to black, this creates chemicals such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and heterocyclic amines (HCAs). PAHs and HCAs are carcinogenic, meaning they are known to cause cancer.
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