The Thrive Diet: The Whole Food Way to Lose Weight, Reduce Stress, and Stay Healthy for Life

By Brendan Brazier

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Eight Staple Foods for the Thrive Diet

1. Vegetables
• Leafy greens include beet greens, mustard greens, butter lettuce, red leaf lettuce, collards, romaine lettuce, dandelion greens, spinach, dinosaur kale, and Swiss chard.
• Fibrous vegetables may be asparagus, green beans, beets, green peas, bok choy, onions, carrots, sugar snap peas, celery, watercress, cucumbers, and zucchini.
• Starchy vegetables (only small amounts are needed) are new potatoes, parsnips, pumpkin, squash, sweet potatoes, turnips and yams.
• Sea vegetables (seaweeds) include dulse, nori, and kelp.
2. Legumes are plants that have pods containing small seeds. Lentils, peas, and beans are all in the legume family. Lentils and split peas are among the most commonly used legumes in Thrive Diet recipes for the simple reason that they don't need to be soaked before cooking.
3. Seeds include flaxseeds, hemp seeds, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, and pumpkin seeds.
4. Pseudograins such as amaranth, quinoa, wild rice, and buckwheat.
5. Fruits on the thrive diet include apples, apricots, bananas, berries, cherries, dates, dragon fruit, figs, grapefruit, grapes, kiwis, mangos, melons, nectarines, oranges, papayas, peaches, pears, pineapples, plums, pomegranates, and dates.
6. Oils include coconut, extra virgin olive oil, hemp oil, flaxseed oil, and pumpkin seed oil.
7. Nuts include almonds, macadamia, and walnuts and hazelnuts.
8. Grains such as brown rice, spelt, millet, and Teff.

Next-Level Foods

• Acai are most noted for their exceptionally high antioxidant level, acai berries are native to the Amazon.
• Chlorella is one of the finest, most nutrient rich super foods on the planet.
• Coconut water is the cloudy liquid inside a coconut. Packed with electrolytes, coconut water is the original sport drink. The coconut meat, the white flesh inside the coconut, is a good source of high-quality fat and trace minerals.
• Green tea has been prized in Asia for centuries for both its nutritional and ceremonial value.
• Green tea seed oil is high in antioxidants and trace minerals.
• Maca is another super-food that curtails the effects of stress by helping the adrenal glands regenerate.
• Rooibos, sometimes referred to as red tea, is native to South Africa and has a high level of antioxidants and alkaline-forming properties.
• White chia is an ancient plant belonging to the mint family and is packed with trace minerals, vitamins, and essential fats, it is a sound addition to any diet.
• Yerba mate is a South American plant whose leaf is commonly used to make a tea-like infusion is rich in chlorophyll, antioxidants, and numerous trace minerals and is a good digestive aid.

 

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