Fox News – Nutrition can be the key to warding off disease — even devastating conditions like cancer.
That’s according to doctors such as Dr. Frank Dumont, an internal medicine physician and executive medical director of Virta Health, a Colorado-based group that tackles metabolic health through diet.
In an on-camera interview with Fox News Digital, Dumont said Americans have experienced an increase in obesity, diabetes, autoimmune diseases and cancers in the last several decades, which “probably has a lot to do with our lifestyle.”
“We know food is a big part of that… our diet has changed dramatically over the past few decades,” he said.
“A lot of the foods we’re eating are much more processed. They’re much higher in simple carbohydrates and simple sugars than they ever were previously.”
“The better you know your body, the better you can make decisions and make these types of swaps,” said a physician.
These foods have been linked to an increase in insulin and inflammation, which leads to health complications, Dumont warned.
To lower the risk of chronic disease, he encouraged people to make the following simple swaps.
“It depends on the individual situation,” he said. “The better you know your body, the better you can make decisions and make these types of swaps.”
To help meet the goal of consuming more fiber and natural products, Dumont recommends eating real fruit instead of drinking fruit juice, which is highly processed.
“Fruit juice can have some benefits — it has minerals, vitamins and micronutrients, but the bottom line is that it’s more processed, and you’ve eliminated a lot of the fiber that is supposed to go hand in hand with the fruit sugar,” he said …
