Benefits of a Natural Food Diet
A natural food diet is a lifestyle choice..........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, Dr. 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 the importance of 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 as they are the freshest foods that you can get. Here are some suggestions to include more natural and
organic foods
into your daily diet:
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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
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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
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