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If your lose-weight, get-healthy New Year’s resolution seems impossible, perhaps you should consider getting back to basics.
True health doesn’t require a complicated formula, says Dr. Joel Fuhrman, author of the book Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss, a new edition of which is being released in January.
His “nutritarian” lifestyle is based on eating low-calorie, highly nutritious foods, especially vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, and beans. These basic wholesome foods contain phytochemicals that protect against toxins and are “necessary to maximize human health and lifespan and prevent this burden of chronic disease that’s weighing down our society with medical tragedies and economic costs that we can’t afford,” Fuhrman tells Newsmax.
His list of suggested fare is a roster of the best super foods — along with some everyday staples that provide a powerful nutrient-dense punch. Here are the top foods you need to add to your grocery list now (plus a recipe):
1. Raw veggies
Leafy dark-green vegetables (romaine lettuce, kale, spinach, Swiss chard) have the highest nutrient density of all foods, Fuhrman says. He says combining dark green leaves with mushrooms and onions is a powerful cancer-fighting trio. According to a 2009 International Journal of Cancer study, women who ate the most mushrooms were 64 percent less likely to get breast cancer, Fuhrman says. “Imagine if there was a drug that could reduce your risk of breast cancer by 50 percent. Wouldn’t every woman be paying $1,000 a month for that drug?”
