Insightful article. I wanted to share it with my fellow FReepers.
I know that there are ping lists out there. Feel free to share.
Thanks for posting!
If you can stomach the libs, Whole Foods carry all of these except maybe the black garlic
Thanks so much for sharing this
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It’s a good list...
I have family in the vitamin and supplement business so the issue of ‘healthy foods’ is a frequent and ongoing discussion. I also take a bunch of daily supplements but as for foods, I didn’t see hardly anything in the list that I wasn’t already doing (perhaps should do more black garlic as opposed to regular garlic). The most recent change I made in line with this list was adding kefir... that came up during the start of the WuFlu saga and I now use that exclusively with my cereal and fruits first thing in the morning. As for availability, the local grocery store, the vitamin/supplement store and a fairly large Asian food store have everything on the list....it’s not that hard to eat ‘healthily’. It mostly has to do with what to avoid....
I don’t have any hard and fast rules about ‘diet’ and I have a bunch of other things I eat and drink that I’ve added in... various pure juices such as cherry and grape, sauerkraut (that is only warmed a bit so as not to kill the probiotics), kimchi, and plenty of others but the ‘rules’ are fairly simple for me..... Eat lean meat and limit it to about 4 ounces a day, always have 5 fresh fruits and three vegetables (preferably raw) a day, avoid fast food in general but particularly anything deep fried, avoid processed foods to the extent possible and stay away from stuff that is white (sugar, salt, fat). Never drink a sugary drink unless it ‘needs’ to be mixed with alcohol and there of course limits to how much alcohol one should drink. Most good alcohols like single malt scotch should be taken neat anyway. Always keep in mind that a very important thing to remember for good health is to eat and drink stuff that promotes good gut health.... if your gut is healthy, so likely is the rest of your body..... hence staying away from processed foods and eating things like sauerkraut.
I’m not fastidious or religious about this and make plenty of exceptions (especially when travelling) but this is more or less is what I do. It seems to work well for me.... in going back through my decades of working life, I don’t think I’ve ever taken a day off work for illness so there is that about it.
Any Korean store or restaurant take-home. Initiated in grad school with fellow student from Seoul, who became a Director of Kaist. I usedto grow hot peppers for his wife to make it.
https://www.positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/kimchi-an-origin-story-5ptg8