The Body’s Superheroes. Our kidneys have one superpower mission: to detoxify the body.
These two highly vascular organs filter about 200 quarts of our blood every day. They remove toxins, waste, and excess fluid, then excrete it out as urine.
Kidney Disease Because they are packed with blood vessels, kidneys are susceptible to the same diseases as the heart. Read more
What We Eat in America is a report prepared by the US Department of Agriculture. It contains pages and pages of data, sliced and diced. Fascinating for researchers, though leaving most readers cross-eyed.
But one way to boil it down is to look at where our calories come from in the American diet. Sadly, only about 12% of calories come from phytonutrient foods – foods that are essential for a long healthy life, like whole grains, legumes, fruits, and vegetables. The rest of our calories are spent on oils, animal products, and sugar.
So what? What if that 12% were doubled, or tripled? Would we have longer, healthier lives? Read more
More than two-thirds of U.S. adults are overweight or obese, conditions associated with a number of chronic diseases, including type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease. That’s an astonishing figure. Ours is an unhealthy nation.
Even modest weight loss—5% decrease in body weight—has been shown to lower the risk of chronic disease. Achieving weight loss, a common resolution as we head into a new year, usually focuses on counting calories.
But the whole food plant-based diet doesn’t count calories. So why does it work? Read more