Alena’s obsession with healthy eating started in 12th grade, when she found out she had Candida (a type of yeast infection) and a homeopathic doctor asked her to stop eating yeast, wheat, sugar, and dairy for several weeks as part of her treatment. She was already a vegetarian, so she mainly ate rice and vegetables. (Alena did not want her last name published.) Then, when she was 19, she went to a naturopathic doctor with a collection of stomach symptoms, including nausea, constipation, and indigestion, and was again instructed to avoid processed grains, sugar, soy, dairy, and nuts. “And that’s when I went crazy,” says Alena, now a 22-year-old student at NYU. “I basically cut out everything from my diet. I convinced my mind that food made me sick.” Health.com: The best and worst foods for digestion Alena still goes through bouts where she swears off those food groups, and her forbidden list now includes carbohydrates, beans, tropical fruit, sugar, farmed fish, and potatoes that aren’t from her own garden.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture standards will set limits on calories, salt, sugar and fat in foods and beverages, and promote snack foods with more whole grains, low-fat dairy, fruits and vegetables. “When healthy food options are offered, students will select them, eat them and improve their diet,” study author Katherine Alaimo, an associate professor in the department of food science and human nutrition at Michigan State University, said in a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation garcinia cambogia extract news release. The foundation funded the study through its Healthy Eating Research program.
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