Foods that Nourish, Replenish and Repair

The food we eat serves many purposes.  It satisfies a primal need to fuel our bodies and quell hunger. It connects us to family and friends in lovely ways, during the holidays, in social situations and at the nightly dinner table.  It encourages us to be creative, to try new things, explore different cultures, and savor interesting tastes. And it comforts us, at least temporarily, when we are lonely, sad, anxious or otherwise spent.
Food has another very important purpose: it cleanses, repairs, replenishes our body at the most basic cellular level.  In fact, the latest research from the field of  nutrigenomics[1], reveals that food has the ability to turn on and to turn off our genes.  Think about that!  Only two decades ago, scientists believed that we inherited a fixed set of genes that predisposed us to certain diseases and conditions and there was little that we could do to change our course.   Now, we know differently.  Food is Medicine!
It turns out that plant-based foods are packed with more than 25,000 different compounds that improve the function of genes and cellular metabolism.  They appear to protect us from diabetes, obesity, autoimmune diseases, bone, kidney, eye, brain diseases and many cancers by maintaining highly functioning cells and repelling carcinogenic agents.  In the largest nutritional study ever conducted, researchers discovered that the growth of cancer cells could be turned on and off by raising and lowering doses of casein, the main pro...

Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - August 25, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Nutrition Source Type: blogs