nutrient rich® healthy eating

an ever-healthier diet, body and future. You can make the choice for yourself three times per

day. Choose wisely—and enjoy the learning, and the eating!

The future holds promise of two advances that may make any food derived through animal

suffering unnecessary:

1. Development of “in vitro” meat—meat grown artificially in a bio-reactor—is proceeding
   with support of various national governments and private industry. Cultured muscle cells
   are then compressed and converted into a ground beef-like product. This could provide the
   “nutrient X” of animal tissue without the environmental damage and animal suffering
   inherent in conventional flesh-derived products. The production cost must come down and
   further technological refinements must be made, but the product is on the horizon. For
   those who do not find the product inherently unappetizing, it may provide the solutions to a
   number of nutritional and ecological challenges.


2. Advances in genetic typing are bringing us close to the day when people—vegan or not—
   can have a drop of blood analyzed and thus learn how to tailor their diets to exactly meet
   their genetic needs. This technology would make designing a health-supporting, plant-based
   food program customized for each individual far more feasible.

So, until the above happy days arrive, for omnivores and nutritionally-challenged vegans, I

would urge you to adopt and optimize your plant-based, nutrient-rich diet as best you can

as suggested above—and when it comes to consuming flesh-based foods, “less is more.”

I couldn’t have said it better myself.

The Nutritional Adequacy of Plant-Based Foods and Diets

Let’s look even more deeply at the nutritional adequacy of plant-based, nutrient-rich diets. We’ve
already established pretty resoundingly how superior and nutrient-dense plant-based foods are
(for example, go back to “Why Is A Plant-Based Diet So Healthy? “, on page 4 4 ), and all the specific
crucial substances they provide (pages 91 - 92). We also defined 90% or more plant-based Nutrient
Rich® in detail on pages 96 - 98.

Now, let’s eliminate any remaining “softness” in the definition, so there is no confusion what a
nutrient-rich food is. At the very, very most basic, a nutrient-rich food is defined by:

 What it has.

 What it doesn’t have.