Eating Whole Foods
Keith Snow
Eating whole foods is a key component to a healhty lifestyle. Whole grain foods can actualy lower your glycemic index. This website has many easy simple whole foods recipes that you will enjoy preparing at home. In our modern world just about everything is designed to be convenient, fast and easy. We can now shop for groceries, books and clothing on line with a few key strokes and without getting out of our chairs.
Conveniences such as these save time and money on fuel costs, but not all conveniences are as positive as they appear. For example, our food supply has become increasingly more convenient and designed by guys and gals in white lab coats.
Our convenient, fast foods contain food dyes and chemicals that we can't even pronounce. These unnatural additives preserve food much longer than in was meant to be preserved. The problem with this reality is that most convenience foods are not "whole." They are fooled with and manipulated so they hardly resemble something our grandparents would have eaten. This is problematic because fast foods do not have the benefits of "whole" foods.
Whole food recipes contain important trace minerals and enzymes that our bodies require for proper nutrition and digestion. Can you remember your mother cooking tasty home made meals with traditional foods? I sure can. The memories of the smells and tastes, are wonderful!
Most kids today eat a diet filled with processed fast foods. As a result, children are now being diagnosed with adult diseases and conditions such as obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes in epidemic proportions. It is not a mystery why this new epidemic is occurring.
We all need to embrace "whole" foods, and NOT look for the easy way out. This may be harder for some than others, but below are a few tips to help you start eating more "whole" foods. Take salad for example:
- Learn to make salad dressing
- Never buy salad in a bag
- Make homemade croutons from stale bread
- Put fresh fruit in your salad-apples are great!
These are 4 very easy steps to accomplish. Plus it's an easy way to reduce the consumption of unhealthy oils and sodium in your diet. Salad in a bag is not nearly as nutritious as freshly chopped lettuce. Plus, ounce for ounce, bagged salad is 3 times more costly. I urge you to take small steps like these, even if you only do one or two, you will be on the road to better health.
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