VegetarianMastery-Lesson16

This week’s assignment: The next time you make a sandwich, wrap it in collard greens, sturdy lettuce, chard, napa cabbage, or bok choy leaves. The next time you’re at a restaurant, ask if they can serve you tofu, hummus, falafels, or beans on a bed of romaine lettuce, instead of wrapping them in a sandwich, […]

Michael Klaper, MD http://doctorklaper.com/ Foods You Eat Now That Are Aging You: Discover three harmful ingredients that show up in many breads, cookies, crackers, muffins, breakfast cereals, pies, cakes, French fries, potato chips, soy cheeses, soy ice creams, and vegetarian “meats”. These ingredients stiffen your arteries, damage your chromosomes, injure your nerve cells, increase oxidative

Traditional wraps are made with flat breads like tortillas or pita bread. However, it is far healthier to use sturdy lettuce, chard, napa cabbage, or bok choy leaves. These green leaves will never contain white flour, trans fats, or acrylamides! This is similar to the concept of wrapping sushi in nori. To make collard greens

When you bake, fry, or roast any starchy food — whether potatoes, bread, French fries, crackers, cereals, or cookies — you will inevitably create acrylamide. Acrylamide is a nasty chemical, known to damage chromosomes, increase oxidative damage in tissues, injure nerve cells, and be a low-grade carcinogen. Note: Aldehydes and peroxides are also produced by frying foods and are carcinogens.

Perhaps you already shun margarine because you know it’s made of hydrogenated oil. That’s a good start. But do you ever eat soy cheese, soy cream cheese, soy ice cream, vegetarian “meats,” vegan desserts (which often use margarine instead of butter), French fries, doughnuts, cookies, crackers, muffins, pies, cakes, or fast foods? If so, it’s

Perhaps you already buy whole grain bread or whole wheat bread. That’s a good start. But, do you also eat pasta, pancakes, pita bread, tortillas, bagels, Naan (Indian bread), crackers, muffins, danishes, cakes, or cookies? If so, you’re still consuming a great deal of white flour! What’s the recipe for white flour? Start with whole

A plant-based diet has the potential to be very healthy. However, most vegans and vegetarians are still aging themselves by eating foods that contain three harmful ingredients: White flour Trans fats – mostly from partially hydrogenated oils in processed foods, fried foods, and fast foods. Acrylamide – in “browned” cooked starches in breads, potatoes, chips,