Healing Foods Pyramid
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We emphasize:
Healing foods
Only foods known to have healing benefits or essential nutrients are included.
Plant-based choices
Plant foods create the base and may be accented by animal foods.
Variety and balance
Balance and variety of color, nutrients and portion size celebrate abundance.
Support of a healthful
environment
Our food, and we in turn, reflect the health of our earth.
Mindful eating
Truly savor, enjoy and
focus on what you are eating.
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The University of Michigan Integrative Medicine’s Healing Foods Pyramid was conceived by Monica Myklebust, M.D., and Jenna Wunder, M.P.H., R.D., in their passion for food in all of its beauty, variety and healing benefits. The foods we choose to eat are essential to how we care for ourselves. In choosing the healing foods on this pyramid, each one of us contributes to our own health.
