Balancing Your Hormones With Neal Barnard, MD
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With plant-based diets it’s the pesticides that are sprayed on foods that can negatively impact your hormones, whereas with animal-based proteins it’s the added antibiotics and growth hormones that you need to avoid.
These include eating a diet that is high in natural fiber, lean protein, nuts, seeds, fruit, legumes, and antioxidants, and low in processed carbohydrates (I’ll reiterate details in this entry for ease of use).
How to use: Eat one huge “fatty salad” daily, which is a salad filled with organic dark leafy greens like kale, arugula, romaine lettuce, or spinach, and doused with extra-virgin olive oil. Avoid nutrient-poor varieties like iceberg lettuce, which is essentially just water and fiber. There will be more “fatty salad” options in the recipe section
vegan and vegetarian diets can indeed benefit other conditions like type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
By focusing on the healthy and delicious plant-based options, you automatically crowd the animal protein off your plate without obsessing over it.