Eat More Whole, Less-Processed Foods!
Okay, okay, but what are "whole foods" exactly? At the most basic level, whole foods are foods that are as close as possible to their origins. For instance: - Fresh fruit and vegetables - A piece of sashimi carved off a raw fish - An egg - Plain milk - A nut in its shell In general, with whole foods: - You can recognize what they used to be: Fresh fruit looks the same in the grocery store as it does on the tree. - They don't come in any packaging. (Other than what's necessary to keep them from leaking or rolling around) - They don't have ingredient labels (There are few exceptions, but those ingredient labels should be pretty straightforward) - They take the minimum number of steps to get to you. - They typically go bad fairly quickly. ( dried beans, nuts, extra-virgin olive oil, or homemade beef jerky might be exceptions, but most whole foods perish rapidly) Review your inventory of foods and ask yourself: - Can I recognize what this food used to be? - How is it packaged? - Does it have an ingredient label? If so, what's on the label? When you done, come back and tell me what you experienced!👇