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True Hunger vs Toxic Hunger
intake." Dr. Fuhrman further explains that the light-headedness and shakiness are actually signs of what he calls "toxic hunger." Toxic hunger is a result from consuming the typicalAmerican diet, which is deficient in micronutrients and phytochemicals,...
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Toxic Hunger Creates Food Addictions
light-headedness, headaches, nervousness, fatigue, confusion and anxiety are the symptoms of what Dr. Fuhrman calls "toxic hunger." Toxic hunger is felt when the body begins the catabolic phase of detoxing and repairing. The typical American diet not...
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Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss, Revised Edition
research: Dr. Fuhrman's revolutionary six-week plan, a brand new chapter highlighting Dr. Fuhrman's discovery of toxic hunger, and the role of food addiction in weight issues. The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss, Revised...
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But I Could Never Give up Meat-Dairy!
After making the transition to a whole-food, plant-based diet, our renewed energy and wellness spurs our desire to share our new lifestyle with our family and friends. Unfortunately, our excitement many times is quickly subdued with blunt responses...
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Effects of Sugar Similar to Drug Addiction
Anyone who consumes the typical American diet will tell you how hard it is for them to cut back on refined sugar products. In the video below Dr. Greger states that diets high in refined sugar products have often been "compared to drug addiction."...
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Can a Plant-Based Diet be Used to Detox?
The New Year brings with it an opportunity to think about ways in which to improve our lives. Eating healthier and losing those unwanted pounds is the most common New Year's resolution. In an attempt to start fresh, and "cleanse" the body, many turn to...
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Losing Weight With Chef AJ is Fun and Delicious!
Have you tried counting calories and carbs to lose weight...but have failed...only to gain back the weight you lost...plus more? Because calorie-restricted diets still allow high-fat, calorie-dense and highly-palatable meals containing animal products,...
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Junk Food Desensitizes Reward Centers of the Brain
the toxic, addictive foods from our diets and replacing them with health promoting foods can we break the cycle of toxic hunger and achieve excellent health." Learn how “Just one Bite” of Junk Food Fuels Food Addiction and Obesity
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Losing Weight Without Losing Your Mind
Why do highly processed foods give us so much pleasure, while at the same time being so harmful? Dr. Doug Lisle says that the "answer is related to a system called the motivational triad." "This is a trio of biological mechanisms that nature has...
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Why Dieting Doesn't Work but Eating Healthy Does
Dieting - it doesn't seem to work, does it? Cutting back on portion size, counting calories, and using will power can only last so long before we're back to our old eating habits. By the looks of all the diet books available today, it would seem like...
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Sugar Linked to Diminished Mental Capacity
see: (1) Changing our Taste Buds (2) Losing Weight Without Losing Your Mind (3) Breaking the Food Seduction (4) Toxic Hunger Creates Food Addictions
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Junk Food = Drug of Choice
Most Popular? (2) Changing our Taste Buds (3) Losing Weight Without Losing Your Mind (4) Breaking the Food Seduction (5) Toxic Hunger Creates Food Addictions (6) Fatty Foods Dull our Dopamine Reward System (7) Are Sugary Foods Addictive? (8) Dr....
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Don't be a Processed Person
reversed these illnesses including multiple sclerosis and autoimmune conditions are included in this film. Resolving toxic hunger and food addictions are also mentioned. (See where the money goes: "How Food Subsidies Tax Our Health" by PCRM A "Processed...
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Obesity Associated with Fatty Liver Disease
Obesity is a serious condition and is associated with many illnesses such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes. In fact, obesity increases the risk of dying prematurely from all causes. It's estimated that 80% of Americans are overweight and the...
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Fatty Foods Dull our Dopamine Reward System
Like the tobacco industry, today's food manufacturers have discovered how to separate foods and put them back together again with super-saturated concentrations of sugar, fat and salt so that they produce effects similar to that seen in drug addiction....
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How Industries Keep You Coming Back for More
"Bet you can't eat just one!" Many of you may remember this popular slogan for a potato chip commercial from the 80's. What may surprise you is what measures the food industry takes to insure that you "can't eat just one." In the video clip below,...
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NFL Player David Carter Proves Carnivorous Skeptics Wrong
Psychological studies show that men from Western cultures associate consuming meat with masculinity, virility, high testosterone levels/libido, power and physical strength. The belief that meat is a superior masculine food permeates most gyms, athletic...
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Opiate-Like Chemicals in Cheese are Physically Addictive
If you eat a diet based on whole plant foods, what food item was the most difficult for you to give up? Although most people assume that meat would be difficult to leave off of their plates ( especially for men ), nearly everyone says that cheese was...
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Crunching the Science on Juicing
Juicing fruits and vegetables was once considered the healthiest of the health trends. Many of us have invested in a juicer, and if we haven't, we probably know friends, family members, or coworkers who have. Those "into" juicing talk about all the...
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For the Love of Grains
What do you eat if you dont eat meat? Grass? Well, not quite although many of the seeds of grasses, also known as grains, have played an important role in human diets for thousands of years. Yet, despite the historical evidence of vast civilizations...
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