Foods like pasta, rice, white bread, sugar and other white foods are off limits. However, cauliflower is a white food you can feel good about eating. This nonstarchy vegetable is a cruciferous vegetable like cabbage and broccoli. High intake of cruciferous vegetables is associated with a lower risk of some cancers.
Vitamin and mineral supplements can be costly, but taking them often makes us feel like we are doing the right thing for our health. Unfortunately, a number of research studies--including the extensive Iowa Women's Healthy Study--indicate that supplements are not always beneficial.
Some people need to take a liquid if they have trouble absorbing vitamins from a pill, or even if itâs hard for them to swallow capsules or tablets. And not all forms of a nutrient are the same. For example, vitamin D supplements come as either vitamin D2 or vitamin D3.