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Five foods that you should always have in your kitchen.

I know life can get pretty busy and a busy schedule can often lead to very poor food choices.

That's why I always keep these five essentials in stock and you should too. First of all always have some dark bitter greens and

lectin-free vegetables in your refrigerator. One of my favorite sayings is more bitter, more better.

Interestingly enough, almost all long-lived societies have preferred very bitter greens in their diet,

whether they're dark green leaves like Arrugala

or Swiss Chard or Bach Choy or Radikio, which many people call that

Italian red lettuce but is actually part of the Chickory family. There are some

great varieties of broccoli that are extremely bitter like broccoli

Rabay or broccoli Rabe. bitter like broccoli broccoli,

robay or broccoli,

rabe, and you can find it usually right next to the broccoli

in most grocery stores now.

More bitter, more better.

The bitterness is a sign that there are lots of polyphenols in these products.

And get used to that bitterness, seek it out.

The bitterness is what you're looking for.

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