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Feeling Great Menu. The World's Healthiest Foods. 100 foods that can serve as the basis of your Healthiest Way of Eating Links to the articles about these foods can be found below. In addition to questions about our foods, we often get asked about beverages and sweeteners. In the beverage category, water and green tea have been especially popular topics, and in the sweetener category, so have honey and maple syrup.

Of course, there are many nutritious foods other than those included on our list that we feel are wonderful, health-promoting foods; if there are other whole foods - such as fruits, vegetables, nuts/seeds, whole grains, etc - that you like, by all means enjoy them. Just because a food is not on our list doesn't mean we don't think it can be included in a diet geared towards the Healthiest Way of Eating as long as it is a whole, natural, nutrient-rich food. To find out why some of your favorite nutritious foods are not included in our list, read The Criteria Used to Select the World's Healthiest Foods. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

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8 Superfoods You Probably Aren't Eating | Care2 Healthy & Green Living. By Sara Novak, Planet Green Sometimes we get caught up in the routine of eating the same foods over and over again. Often times it’s not that healthful eating isn’t tasty, but rather it’s the lack of variety. Adding a variety of super nutrient dense foods to our diet ensures that we’re getting the laundry list of vitamins and minerals that the body needs to thrive. Most aspects of a healthy diet are quite obvious. We know that fruits and vegetables are healthy and processed foods are not healthy. Too much meat and fried foods are also not healthy. (Click through to the end, or click the left arrow button, for a text-only version.) 1. Spirulina is a blue green algae that’s a wonderful food especially for those that avoid meat products.

Image credit: SweetOnVeg via Flickr. The 28 All-Time Best Healing Foods.

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Transgenics. Sustainable Table. Sustainable Agriculture - The Basics Sustainable agriculture provides healthy food for consumers while protecting the environment and human health, safeguarding animal welfare and supporting local communities. Questions to Ask Asking questions is the best way to ensure that you're purchasing sustainably raised, healthful foods and supporting sustainable farmers. Here are some questions to get you started. Handouts Help promote sustainable food and save family farms. Use our downloadable handouts to learn about food system problems and solutions. Projects and Events The GRACE Food Program is proud to actively participate in the burgeoning food movement.

Food Waste In the US, we throw away 40 percent of our food supply every year. The True Food Network. Talk | Tag | Food.