What's For Dinner?There is one question that every single human on earth asks themself every single day. What's for Dinner? We all must eat. Some of us cook for ourselves and others have their food cooked for them (lucky you!) But, we all must eat. What should we eat? Eat real food, not too much, mostly plants. Yep, we need plants. We need fruits and vegetables, in their whole form, not processed into some unrecognizable concoction and sold to you in a plastic container. Eat plants as they were when they came out of the ground, off the stalk, stem or vine. No matter your eating strategy, it's vital that we avoid high and ultra processed foods. Michael Easter explores this important nutrition recommendation in his book, Scarcity Brain. He talked to many subject matter experts and travelled to the Amazon to discover what healthy people eat. He spent a week eating with the a tribe of people who have ZERO heart disease. This is remarkable since heart disease is the NUMBER ONE killer of Americans. Heart disease kills more people than all other diseases COMBINED! Your diet, what you eat, is by far the biggest contributor of increased risk of heart disease, and one type of food in particular is the biggest contributor: high and ultra high-processed foods. What is a high or ultra high processed food? It's something that has more than one other processed ingredient. Here's a nice visual from Stephanie Kay Nutrition: Nearly all food gets processed, e.g. it gets cooked, before we eat it. But the foods that are the real problem are the ones that have multiple other processed ingredients and go through many processing methods before we eat them. Delicious foods like candy, potato chips. hot dogs, hamburgers, pizza, tacos, breakfast cereal, yogurt with added fruits, meat nuggets, meat sticks, soft drinks, etc. You get the picture. In Scarcity Brain, Michael Easter found that people who eat mostly single ingredient foods, meat, fish, fowl, vegetables, fruit, and rice lived the longest and had the lowest risk for heart disease. Michael Pollan, another well-researched food journalist and professor, agrees. We should eat food that looks like food. If it has a face, comes from the ground, grows on a stem, or IS the stem, eat more of that. To help get cooking with all the delicious single ingredient foods we bought last week at Costco, let's cook something delectable from my favorite source for recipes straight from the farm, Dishing up the Dirt. Click on the image below for a fabulous pork and Autumn harvest vegetable stew. It's just the type of delicious cooking we can do to make our hearts happy.
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