{"id":2217,"date":"2022-06-26T23:56:34","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T23:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2217"},"modified":"2022-06-26T23:56:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T23:56:34","slug":"ask-the-nutritionist-is-a-plant-based-diet-the-best-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2217","title":{"rendered":"ASK THE NUTRITIONIST: Is a plant-based diet the best choice?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dear Readers,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week\u2019s column features the sixth of the top 10 nutrition questions I get asked. Tune in over the following weeks for the remainder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you missed it, the first week I covered\u00a0soy\u00a0products\u00a0and the controversy around whether they are good or bad for your health. Then I covered whether or not we need\u00a0nutritional supplements\u00a0and\u00a0organic foods. We also explored the health benefits of dairy products and why some people\u00a0turn to dairy alternatives. Last week we looked at\u00a0eggs\u00a0and why they are a great addition to a healthy diet &#8211; even if you have high cholesterol!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week we\u2019re going to look at the trend toward a plant-based diet and whether that\u2019s actually good for our health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the story at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bradfordtoday.ca\/columns\/ask-the-nutritionist\/ask-the-nutritionist-is-a-plant-based-diet-the-best-choice-5519803\">Bradford Today<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Readers, This week\u2019s column features the sixth of the top 10 nutrition questions I get asked. Tune in over&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2219,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions\/2219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}