Whole Food Nutrition
Whole foods are plants that still posses all parts, as if it were freshly harvested. Whole foods are foods that aren’t stripped of nutrients and are not concentrated into one nutrient substance. Viagra for instance, is made up of a highly synthesized concentration of the amino acid, arginine, found in peanuts. You can save a lot of money by just going straight to the source, peanuts! Whole food nutrition should be the foundation of any person that has a deep desire to achieve and maintain optimal health. What happens when something is missing? Basically mayhem shines. Whenever something is missing in any equation things don’t work right. Things literally start to fall apart(osteoporosis).
Our understanding of food has come a long way. For us to be able to recognize certain food chemicals is a great step but let us not get stuck on single nutrients- the whole is where it’s at. Unfinished business is exactly that, unfinished. Most of the foods we eat today are dealing in a lot of unfinished business. Foods that aren’t whole make you full but don’t deliver the nutrients, so as a result people constantly eat. The body is furiously digging through foods trying to find what it really needs, getting nothing in return; basically this is the reason why people eat so much. They don’t supply cleansing fiber or beneficial intestinal supplentation, so people suffer from severe constipation. Visceral Spillage is a term used for explaining why peoples guts hang over there pants. Basically they have so much crap lodged inside there stomach that the viscera of the stomach is constantly being pushed and ends up this way. This look and feeling is far from ideal.
We don’t function on one concentrated nutrient, we function on many nutrients, in the thousands! There are many forms of calcium, many forms of other minerals, and vitamins and an array of other plant substances are needed to optimally support us. The only way to receive all that we need is through whole foods. ” Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” I know you’ve probably heard this famous statement by Hippocrates but a statement this good never gets old because it’s true. Whole foods are one of Gods great gifts for us to enjoy every day.
Diet originally meant “that which leads to good”, but through many generations the meaning has gained a bad reputation. No one likes to diet but peoples diet should be of great concern. Misguided by culprits like mass media, people are in need of some old fashioned not so common, sense. Eat your vegetables. The list below gives a good idea of some of the wonderful whole foods out there.
Some choices to start with:
• Broccoli
• Cauliflower
• Spinach (can be used as main base ingredient in salad)
• Tomato
• Cucumber
• Cabbage
• Celery
• Asparagus
• Carrots
• Onions
• Garlic
• Lettuce(red or green can be used as base ingredient in salad)
• Arugula (can be used as base ingredient in salad)
• Peas
• Artichoke
• Squash
• Pumpkin
• Corn(careful)
• Mushrooms
• Sweet Peppers
• Bell Peppers
• Kale (use as base in salad or as base in morning fruit smoothie)
NUTS/BEANS (good source of easily digestible protein and perfect fat content in raw organic nuts):
• Organic Raw Almonds or Organic Raw Almond Butter
• Organic Raw Pecans
• Organic Raw Brazil Nuts
• Organic Raw Walnuts
• Organic Raw Sunflower and Pumpkin Seeds
FRUITS (try and consume most of you fruits early in your day. Fruit sugar gives substantial amounts of energy for the body. Preferably morning and afternoon):
- avocado
• Oranges
• Apples
• Bananas
• Pears
• Seeded Grapes (fat to sugar ratio is perfect in seeded fruits. Anything seedless is said to be genetically modified)
• Blueberries
• Raisins
• Apricots
• Strawberries
• Pineapples
• Blackberries
• Cherries
• Peaches
• Raspberries
• Mangos
• Plums
• Kiwi
• Watermelon
• Mandarins