Nutrition for optimal health

Today, science and medicine have brought unprecedented understanding of the underlying patterns of disease and health. What we know has grown so much, in fact, that a new field of medicine has emerged to help address the need for doctors, hospitals, and clinics to receive training and provide services to the public.

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Lifestyle medicine is a new field that is showing the links between simple lifestyle choices and activities and human health and disease.

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So what can the average person do to adopt habits researchers show can prevent and even reverse a number of chronic diseases?

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Start here:

• Add more movement into each day

• Add 15 minutes of meditation or mindfulness practice daily

• Add at least 3 of these to each meal:

dark greens, blueberries or raspberries, cruciferous veggies, beans (legumes), seeds, turmeric, ginger (see Michael Greger, MD's How Not To Die book for the science behind these recommendations)

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