… it.While cruising through your local produce aisle, look for dark green leaves that are free of brown or wilted leaves. The firmer it is, the better.When it comes to spinach, there’s a …
… yogurt instead of buying the fruit-on-the-bottom kind. Add berries to your oatmeal instead of brown sugar. “Those substitutions can really add up to make a difference,” Patton says.The thought of giving …
… oils like canola, corn or soybean oil.Refined sugars: sweets, sodas, candies, chocolate, cane sugar, corn syrup, brown rice syrup, etc.Nuts and seeds: all nuts, seeds and foods made from these ingredients including flours …
… and in the case of grains, that means choosing whole-grain foods like oats, quinoa, barley and brown or wild rice.“Processing grains strips them of their outside layers, and oftentimes, heat or chemicals are …
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