Benefits of a Natural Food Diet

A natural food diet is a lifestyle..........

There are so many "diets" out there. Finding one that you can embrace as part of a healthy lifestyle can have more benefits than you may realize. Consuming daily doses of good nutrition will help to supply your body with the nutrients it needs.

A natural food expert, Elson M. Haas, MD makes a case for a more natural food diet in his book "Staying Healthy with Nutrition."

"Overall, how can the American diet be improved so that it will nourish a healthy and long-lived people? What can we do with this diet based on quick eating, fast preparation, microwave meals, stop-and-go diets; the diet we can fit between two pieces of white bread; the diet we can eat with one hand while driving our car or working at our desk; this processed, refined, junk food, high-sodium, high-fat diet; this diet that generates death more than life? I suggest going back to the basics, back to Nature, back to the garden."

He goes on to say:

"Getting back to the basics means learning to take the time to shop for (or grow) and prepare, as well as to sit down and eat, wholesome nourishing meals- to generally be more conscious and conscientious with the diet. This is a tough request for a busy population that seems to always be trying to catch up with their bills and credit cards. Believe me, it is worth the price, though, because we will feel better longer and be more productive, and not spend our life savings on disease care."

This MD really understands that both what you eat and how you eat affects your overall health and well being.

The main idea of eating a more natural diet is to include whole foods and local and or organics foods whenever possible to avoid GMO's and pesticides that are sprayed on the fruits and vegetables and grains.

Here are some suggestions to include more natural and organic foods into your daily diet:

whole grains - breads, cereals, pasta's and rice - avoid enriched wheat and white flours
fruits and vegetables - best if organic or homegrown wild caught fish
poultry and eggs - look for organic and/or free range
red meats - better choices would be lean and grass fed and/or organic - avoid processed meats such as sausage, cold cuts, hot dogs, bacon
organic herbal and green teas
brown rice, oat and nut milks
nuts and seeds preferably raw and/or sprouted
legumes - look for organic
use natural sweetners such as honey, molasses, agave occasionally
Learn more about eating raw foods

Whether you want to seek out a more natural food diet for health issues, weight loss or simply to eat a cleaner diet, these examples are based on a eating whole foods plan. Including more natural foods into your diet is good for your body.

For Healthy Eating Tips - learn what makes a diet healthy: how to choose, prepare and consume healthy and nutritious food.

As we incorporate more healthy eating tips into our daily lives, we are able to live a more healthful lifestyle.

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Elson M. Haas and Buck Levin, updated 2006. "Staying Healthy with Nutrition" p374