Dr. Daniel Monti highlights how "Eat real food" reflects integrative medicine’s core: whole, unprocessed foods extend lifespan and improve health, while ultra-processed options—despite their convenience—worsen outcomes, backed by decades of research showing stark contrasts between these two dietary patterns. [Automatically generated summary]
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| America now has new dietary guidelines, a so-called flipped pyramid of food. | |
| Eat real food has become a slogan. | |
| How do you react to that? | |
| In my field, we've been flipping that pyramid for a while. | |
| And eating real food has been an important concept in integrative medicine and integrative health. | |
| All of the evidence out there continuously points to a dietary pattern that is going to increase health and prolong life or one that's going to take things in the opposite direction. | |
| All of the ultra-processed foods that are so common and easy to obtain really put things in the wrong direction. |