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Podcast: Wise Traditions
Episode: Vegetables: our vitamin pills
Description: "Eat your veggies!" We've heard this over and over and today we learn more about the "why" behind the charge! Author and holistic physician Dr. Tom Cowan refers to vegetables as our vitamin pills. They're not primarily for calories or protein in our diet. We need their disease-fighting properties: the phytonutrients, the antioxidants, the minerals and vitamins that they offer! Vegetables help protect us against cancer, stroke, arthritis, diabetes, and more. Did you know that some indigenous groups thrived eating 10-15 different vegetables a day? And over 100 in a year? Tom recommends that we follow their example...