You can significantly reduce your risk of getting many of the chronic diseases that plague our times by including more dietary fiber in your diet. These diseases include coronary heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, type 2 diabetes, colorectal cancer, and breast cancer.  An enormous new study in the prestigious medical journal, Lancet, showed a 15-30 percent reduction in cardiovascular-disease and all-cause mortality in people who got the most fiber versus those who got the least.  Those study participants who ate the most fiber, versus those that ate the least, reduced their risk of stroke by 22 percent, their risk of type 2 diabetes or colorectal cancer by 16 percent, and their risk of death from coronary heart disease by 30 percent Interestingly, fiber was also found to be a better way to control spikes in blood sugar after eating than eating a low-glycemic diet.  And although a low-glycemic diet also reduced the risk of getting type…

“Controlling the triggers of age-related inflammation could extend healthspan.”–Yale School of Medicine. Allergies, arthritis, cancer, diabetes, atherosclerosis, osteoporosis, Alzheimer’s disease—almost every American today is already suffering or will suffer at some point in their lifetimes from an inflammatory-related disease like these. But it doesn’t need to be that way! You can spot inflammation and subdue it before it gets out of control and leads to a chronic disease! What exactly is inflammation? Inflammation is the body’s healing response to injury, illness or infection. It brings heat and extra blood supplies where repairs are needed. After the job has been done, the inflammatory process should shut down.  But sometimes it doesn’t.  Instead, it smolders on, becoming chronic inflammation. Nutrient deficiencies and toxicities encourage chronic inflammatory fires that smolder and build until one day they flare up and burn out of control, producing disease. I…