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Submitted by Dr. Eric Li on Wed, 2008-04-09 07:18.

There's a lot of expert advice on food you should eat, such as this article/book which advocates eating five types of foods every day, whole grains, dark green leafy vegetables, nuts, low fat yogurt or milk, tea. Do we listen to the advice?   As YBMers, we dig deeper. For example, some whole grains, such as rice, wheat, and many types of beans should be avoided. These grains contain higher percentage of starchy components, and have to be cooked well. Once cooked, they contain a great deal of simple sugar. On the other hand, grains, such as chia, quinoa, flexseeds, wheatgerms have much higher nutritional value, less stach, and can be eating raw (e.g., soaked in milk for a few minutes, or milled).   As for leafy vegetables, if they are cooked well done, a lot of phyto nutrients will be lost, plant enzymes will be killed. The best way is to raw salad, raw blended juice (with the whole plant), or hot water lightly bathed.   Nuts should not be eaten in excess because of the high fat content. Some each day is fine. Oil, salty nuts as for most in the market are bad.   Yogurt/milk is not so good if they are not eaten raw because of the lost nutrition and enzymes.   There are many kind of teas. We advice to drink green tea, because it has many research papers backing its health benefit.   So as YBMers, be perfectionist because we want to act and look like in our 60's when we are 120's! Follow YBM Life!

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