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Virtuous Vegetables
The Fact: Vegetables can prevent disease. Any nutritionists, dieticians and medical professionals alike agree that a diet containing a large variety of fresh, seasonally grown vegetables equates to optimum nutrition and health. With recent scientific studies showing significant decreases in rates of disease among vegetarians and vegans who consume a plant-based diet, there is no doubt that common vegetables deserve the super-food title. The Fiction: Powders can replace vegetables. Powdered vegetable substitutes are appearing all over the health-food market. Claiming to incorporate all of the essential compounds of their wholefood predecessors, these powder substitutes are not quite all they seem to be. Nutritional science...