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What Is A Whole Foods Plant Based Lifestyle?
What Is A Whole Foods Plant Based Life Style and what are the Benefits?
A whole food diet is plant-based, focused on eating unrefined and unprocessed foods. You enjoy fresh fruits and vegetables, most whole grains, tubers and legumes, and cut way back on or eliminate any type of processed food. This typically means reducing the amount of meat and eggs you consume, as well as anything with refined sugar, bleached flour and other processed food ingredients.
Why Eat Food with Minimal Human Intervention?
Why would someone eat nothing but natural, unprocessed and unrefined foods? More and more people are turning to a whole foods diet because of the long list of health benefits this nutritional approach has to offer. You don’t have to be a nutritionist or health expert to understand that an apple is better for you than a double cheeseburger.
This is because the more tinkering and modifying that is done with your food before it reaches your plate, the less healthy it is for you. The following is a short list of just a few of the major benefits a whole foods diet provides.
• Reduces your risk of becoming overweight or obese
• Helps moderate healthy blood pressure
• Regulates a healthy cholesterol level
• Reduces your risk of contracting diabetes
• Lowers your odds of developing heart disease
• Makes your skin and hair stronger and healthier looking
• Lowers your chances of developing neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s
• Increases mental functioning and clarity
• Boosts your natural energy level
• Improves your sleep patterns
• Cranks up your natural immune system, dramatically increasing your ability to resist and even cure disease
• Boosts your sex drive
When you eat unprocessed foods, as close to their original, natural state as possible, you get more of the nutrients, minerals, and vitamins your body needs. Foods that are highly processed (generally those products sold in a bag, wrapper, container or can) have many of their nutrients removed in the manufacturing process. Then unhealthy, addictive ingredients like refined sugar, salt, MSG and trans fats are introduced.
This makes food last longer on your grocery store’s shelves. It also drastically limits the natural components your body needs to be healthy. Even worse, since your brain recognizes after a 1,500 calorie fast food meal that you are still lacking in nutrients, it tells you to eat something else. The addictive chemicals that have been added to your food answer that call by making you crave the very food that caused this unhealthy problem in the first place.
So your reach for more fast, processed foods, your body never gets what it needs to be healthy, and you develop a laundry list of physical and mental health complications.
This is how Plant-based whole food, approach to nutrition delivers so many incredible benefits. You replace unhealthy, nutrient-poor processed foods with natural, nutrient-dense foods. These foods contain high levels of dietary fiber, vitamins, minerals, and enzymes, and are wonderfully low in calories and carbohydrates compared to fast food and processed foods.
So your body begins to heal itself, your natural energy levels are boosted, your immunity system kicks into high gear to keep you healthy, and from your head, to your toes, you are able to enjoy mental and physical health benefits. Begin eating more organic/grass fed meats and plant-based whole foods today, and cut back or eliminate processed foods. In as little as 24 to 72 hours you will begin to experience the wonderful benefits a whole foods diet has to offer.
It won’t be long before you will no longer crave those unhealthy foods and you will look forward to the hundreds of different plant-based whole foods recipes that are available. We hope you will visit us often and try some of those ricipes we share weekly.
We welcome your comments in the space below this article and will reply to each one.If you have not signed up for your copy of “Clean Eating – How and Why to cut out Processed Foods” please do so at the top right this article. I would love to have you join our family of Whole Food Emthusiasts..
Bon Provecho
ChefChaney says
it’s a way of life
Shane says
Thanks for sharing Excited to be using whole foods!
ChefChaney says
Thanks Sharon, We try not to purchase processed foods to avoid all the chemicals that are added.There is so much fresh, wholesome foods
that it is easy to avoid the processed foods that are packages in cans and plastic containers. We do purchase fresh frozen items once in
a while, foods like fresh frozen blueberries that we can use in our smoothies and fat bombs. I hope you will visit more often and perhaps
find a recipe or two that you can enjoy.
Sharon says
When you’re on Paleo diet, you’re just going to eat whole foods. White rice, white sugar, and the like have lost their nutrients already so these should be avoided. I am so excited about your recipes using whole foods only. Thanks for the information.
ChefChaney says
Thank you Christine, I just visited your site and will be going back there in a little while to read more. There is so much great information and recipes available but we can only write so much in a day, that is why it is nice to share. I made some peanut butter, coconut, cocoa fat bombs yesterday and will share the recipe tomorrow. If you like fat bombs these are great, please stop by and check the recipe.
Christine says
Hi there Chef,
Thanks for all the articles and suggestions you’ve made to me.
They are really helping with my daily routine.
CHeers,
Christine