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Cheese and pizza specifically are number one favorite food. It's the cheese that makes it so addictive.

Why It's So Hard to Give Up Cheese An excerpt from "The Cheese Trap: How Breaking a Surprising Addiction Will Help You Lose Weight, Gain Energy, and Get Healthy," by Neal Barnard, MD, FACC.

Good article with tips on dealing with autoimmune diseases.

6 Foods to Eat and 3 to Avoid to Help Your Body Fight Autoimmune Disease and Excessive Inflammation Autoimmune disease is on the rise, but food can help! What is an autoimmune disease diet? Discover what foods to eat and which ones you might want to avoid to help your body heal and alleviate symptoms and even reverse your autoimmune disease.

Okay, I'll say it! Eat a plant based diet.

I am seeing this more and more in the scientific literature. A long drawn out review of how food affects disease, with all factors pointing to the importance of fiber, fruits and vegetables, and the dangers of saturated fat and processed foods. Yet, these scientists can’t seem to see the forest for the trees and just say, eat a plant based diet.
In the is study they show how fruits and veggies provide a powerful anti inflammatory effect through their antioxidant activity as well as their fostering of butyrate producing bacteria which produces anti inflammatory effects. They also point out how certain foods foster development of LPS which is an endotoxins that comes from bacteria found in meat!
I sat through a long scientific presentation on the dangers of heme iron and how it affects Beta cell activity. At the end of the presentation someone asked the scientist what she eats and she said she follows an Atkins type diet. Understand how utterly ridiculous this is. An Atkins diet for the most part means high meat and high meat intake means high heme iron intake which means she eat in contradiction to her science. All these studies point clearly to the benefits of plant foods and the dangers of animals foods.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4579563/ #!po=15.4762

This is the kind of diet that we recommend.

After a Heart Attack, I Changed My Diet, Shocked My Cardiologist, and Avoided Bypass Surgery My doctor told me I needed bypass surgery within the year. I went on a WFPB diet and my numbers changed dramatically within one month.

Many studies confirm this.

Cutting carbs can increase risk of diabetes and other diseases, experts warn Experts are warning against the trend of Australians cutting quality carbohydrates high in cereal fibre from their diets.

A new study finds that children who consume fast food once a week or more face long-term risk factors for heart disease. Read about the study here: https://goo.gl/pNdnB1. Learn how a plant-based diet can reduce risk:

GPs 'unaware' diabetes can be beaten There are 488 different drugs to treat type 2 diabetes but patients could beat it by losing weight.