Is it healthier to eat more plants?
Posted by Jason Better on Jun 30, 2010 3:40 pm
Source: BestHealthMag.ca | Author: By Kat Tancock
Can a shift to more plant foods help you live longer, healthier and happier? Brendan Brazier, author of the books Thrive Diet and Thrive Fitness and creator of Vega food supplements, definitely thinks so. Best Health got the scoop on his eating habits, the history of Vega and how he wants to solve North America's health crisis.
It's no secret that plant foods are good for you. Whether it's cruciferous vegetables preventing cancer or cherries fighting cholesterol, study after study appears in the news touting the benefits of fruits and vegetables in staying healthy and preventing chronic disease. And many Canadians are taking these recommendations to heart, increasing their consumption of plant foods as part of their regular diet.
But a diet that's 100 percent made up of plant foods, most of them raw? To most of us, it sounds difficult, and extreme. But to Brendan Brazier, author of Thrive Diet and Thrive Fitness and creator of Vega, a company that creates whole-food supplements, raw and vegan is normal. Not only has he been eating that way since he was a teenager, but he's built a career as a professional triathlete on nothing but plant foods.
Lately, Brazier has shifted his focus to Vega, to his books and to promoting good, healthy food to North Americans. Best Health spoke to him about how he got started and where he's going.
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non-GMO!!
Awesome article. What it fails to mention is that it's best to eat non-pestiside riddled genetically modified food. Basically, your body can't properly digest directly from nature God-created food, hence the side effects when you take some prescriptions. Genetically modified food (non-organic) has been scientifically proven to cause everything (in the lab animals that were tested) from low birth weight, sterility within the 3rd generation, less offspring, oddly colored testicles in male rats, mucus and fur growing inside the mouth of these animals.... need I go on!? These animals have to be force fed the GMO food because they know better!!
GMO food linked to organ failure:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07M4_CFndzY
Search: Food Inc. while you're on YouTube.