Eating healthy foods squeezes out harmful foods and makes them less appealing

Eatin healthy foods like spinach squeezes out harmful foods.

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Eat for Health is Dr. Joel Fuhrman's nutritional prescription for superior health. This post discusses Dr. Fuhrman's introduction and how eating healthy foods can take the place of other less healthful ones.

Eating healthy foods, the foods that grow from the ground, i.e. vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and beans, supports a healthy body. These foods contain the nutrients that are needed to heal the damage that everyday living does to our bodies: pollution, chemicals in everything from candles to lawns, UV rays, aging, additives to food, and the list goes on.

If you add several servings of nutrient dense foods to your daily diet, several servings of nutrient-less foods will be eliminated. You can only eat so much.

"The body is a self-healing machine when you supply it with the optimal nutritional environment," Dr. Fuhrman writes. Dr. Fuhrman refers to his way of eating as an "eating style," because his way is not about what you can and can't eat. Eat for Health is about food pattern choices. As you begin to choose to eat more nutrient dense foods -- kale, collard greens , watercress, and spinach are the kings of nutrient density having the highest ANDI score -- two things will happen. Not only will you be satisfied by the more healthful foods and you will not be hungry for the less healthful ones, but you will lose the taste and the desire for less healthy foods.

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