Bellevue Vegan

09/08/2022

Great info!!

The Potato Association of America likes to portray potatoes as an anti-inflammatory food, but what it doesn’t tell you is that this benefit may be limited to pigmented potatoes.

Even yellow potatoes like Yukon gold may be preferable to white, but the best may be purple potatoes. And not just purple-skinned potatoes, but purple-fleshed ones. Purple potatoes cause less of an insulin spike and blood sugar spike compared to yellow-fleshed potatoes, suggesting that switching from yellow or white to purple could have a large potential public health benefit.

Indeed, if you compare the antioxidant activity of white, yellow, and purple potatoes, yellow potatoes, such as Yukon gold, have about twice the antioxidant power as white potatoes, but purple potatoes have 20 times the antioxidants of white ones.

Watch the video "The Healthiest Type of Potato" at https://bit.ly/3hBIqAF to learn more.

06/30/2022

Lemon balm may beat out drugs for controlling the symptoms of severe dementia.

06/22/2022

N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) is a carcinogenic nitrosamine. It has not only been found in certain prescription drugs, but also in foods such as processed meat and beverages like beer. We know NDMA can transfer through the placenta, and this may explain the relationship between consumption of cured meat during pregnancy and the risk of childhood brain tumors. Indeed, hot dog consumption during pregnancy may increase childhood brain tumor risk by 33 percent, and sausage consumption may increase it by 44 percent. Bacon consumption may increase childhood brain tumor odds by 60 to 70 percent. But, it’s not just processed meat. Researchers have also found NDMA in poultry products. Half of a chicken breast contains 110 nanograms of NDMA, which is more than the FDA's acceptable daily intake limit of 96 nanograms per day. Raw poultry doesn’t have any NDMA; it’s created during the cooking process.

Additionally, dry-heat cooking of meat, like broiling or grilling, creates airborne NDMA, releasing this "very potent carcinogenic compound" into the air. Even if you’re only eating a salad in a charcoal grill restaurant, just being indoors where meat is cooked could pose a cancer risk.

Interestingly enough, one of the best-selling drugs in history, Zantac, was pulled from the market—a drug that brought in billions of dollars—because it contained a probable carcinogen that exceeded the acceptable daily limit, but there may be even more of the contaminant in a single serving of chicken. Why aren’t they pulling the poultry off the shelves, too?

Watch the video "Cancer-Causing NDMA in Medications (Zantac, Metformin) and Meat," and see the research studies referenced at https://bit.ly/3BG5rLS.

01/31/2022

Dioxins are highly toxic pollutants that accumulate in tissue fat. Nearly all dioxins found in people who don’t work in hazardous conditions, such as toxic waste dumps, are thought to come from food, especially meat, including fish, and milk. Indeed, what we eat accounts for about 95 percent of human exposure.

The Institute of Medicine suggests various strategies to reduce exposure to dioxins, such as trimming the fat from meat, including poultry and fish, and avoiding the recycling of animal fat into gravy. If nearly all dioxin intake comes from animal fat, then eating a more plant-based diet could wipe out about 98 percent of our exposure to the toxic pollutant.

Eating a plant-based diet is eating as low on the food chain as possible, and it is the best way to minimize exposure to industrial toxins. Additionally, phytonutrients in fruits, vegetables, teas, and beans may block the toxic effects of pollutants, like dioxins, through the Ah receptor system. The half-life of these phytonutrients in the body is only about 25 hours, so we have to keep eating healthfully day after day.

Learn more about dietary dioxins on http://NutritionFacts.org:
"Dioxins in U.S. Farm-Raised Catfish" at https://bit.ly/3ezAZsa
"Counteracting the Effects of Dioxins Through Diet" at https://bit.ly/3AiXUkQ.

01/15/2022

Good information

01/15/2022

Good information

One reason diet diversity is important is because each plant family has a unique combination of phytonutrients that may bind to specific proteins within our body.

All fruits and vegetables contain unique combinations of phytonutrient; therefore, it's important to include a wide variety of fruits and vegetables to maximize the health benefits from them. Watch the video "Specific Receptors for Specific Fruits & Vegetables" to learn more: https://bit.ly/2Lkxd5e

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10/19/2021

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10/09/2021

There’s no evidence that we need milk to strengthen our bones. ⠀⁣
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The federal government tells us that milk is a perfect food that Americans should lap up daily, three glasses to be exact—in spite of a large (and growing) body of research showing its lack of benefits and awful side effects. I agree it is nature’s perfect food…but only if you are a calf!⠀⁣
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Humans are the only species that continue to drink milk after weaning. ⠀⁣
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These dairy-free options are not only better sources of calcium, but they also contain other great sources of nutrients. ⠀

10/07/2021

09/10/2021

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