5 Nutrients You're Probably Not Getting Enough Of

5 Nutrients You're Probably Not Getting Enough Of

Unfortunately the Standard American Diet, also known as "SAD," is, well, pretty sad. Over the last 100 years, the majority of Americans have gone from eating "normal" portions and home-cooked whole foods (after all, the processed foods we see lining store shelves today didn't exist), to consuming high levels of over-processed simple carbohydrates and refined sugars. With this shift in eating habits, there's been a huge increase in diet-related chronic diseases, which represent the largest cause of obesity and death. Luckily improving the situation could be pretty easy: Eat more whole, unrefined foods -- fruits, veggies, whole grains and other natural products that go through little processing.

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