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Plug: Interventional Cardiologist, Professional Chef, Professor of Culinary Medicine Author: Food Shaman: The Art of Quantum Food Website: https://chefdrmike.com/ Speaking Points: *A Google query of ‘eating healthy’ returns 554,000,000 results. Despite the huge number, most if not essentially all of the recommendations based in science, share a commonality. These approaches to health via diet do not work because they only view food in terms of their botanical origin or animal species and according to nutrients they contain. 4 *Due to this, foods that have very different effects on health and disease are often grouped together. As an example, a hand-crafted, grass-finished bison burger is a world away from a drive-thru processed patty; but both are lumped together as ‘red meat’. Whole grains are tossed together with sugary ‘breakfast cereals’ and cookies as ‘cereals and cereal grains’. This antiquated perception of food processing has serious consequences. *Dietary Guidelines for Americans reports advise