choices when it comes to carbohydrate,
vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients.
What about vegetables and fruit?NOT SO NUTRITIOUS
The marketing from big cereal companies
would have you think that cereal grains are
highly nutritious—and that if you don’t eat
them, you’ll miss out on all sorts of vitamins,
minerals, and fiber that you can get only from
grains.
That’s simply not true.
Grains are not (we repeat, not) nutrient-
dense when compared with vegetables and
fruit.
Remember back to our prototypical
healthy-hormones “good day” and our not-so-
healthy-hormones “bad day” in Chapter 5?
Our good day described a diet based on our
Good Food standards. Our bad day