What Color Is Your Diet?
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“Most Americans eat far too few foods with any color in them,” says David Heber, M. D. , Ph. D. , director of the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition. Instead, we tend to eat a high-fat, highly processed “beige diet” full of snack foods and refined grains (bread, cake, pastries) that don’t fit the requirements of our genes. The average intake of fruits and vegetables is only 3 servings a day, when it should be 7 to 11 servings a day. According to Heber, the varied colors in fruits and vegetables indicate “specific beneficial substances that help to prevent the common diseases that affect many of us as we get older. ” Damage to DNA leads to changes in our genes as we age that can result in diseases such as heart diseas…
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