A Great Website for Nutritional Analyses

As many of my regular clients know, I am kind of a nut about nutrition and how it affects how you feel. While I do enjoy a french fry now & then, or some ice cream, or some corn chips...well I'm all about the unprocessed food. Especially after reading Micheal Pollan's latest book, In Defense of Food, I am all about eating mostly plants--and yes, some animal protein too--but mostly really nutritionally dense food so I am getting most of my nutrients from the food I eat, rather than from supplements.

Here is a great site to research the nutritional values of foods you eat on a regular basis. You can even search by those lowest in fat and highest in Iron, for example. You can build your "pantry" and then create recipes and even do a nutritional analysis of those, and check out the nutritionally complete rating. One of my favorite features? It lists the "inflammatory factor" of foods. Why is this important? I read recently that prolonged inflammation is a factor in both heart disease and cancer. By working certain foods into your diet: like turmeric and fish, you can keep the inflammation in your system under control.

I have been paying more attention to this for the last few weeks, and you know what? I feel great, and look great! A little less creaky, a little less puffy.

Check out the website: www.nutritiondata.com