Clean Eating
I would like to introduce you to the basic principles of Clean Eating, like how to choose foods your body can use, dietary duos (which is the pairing of foods for optimum nutritional absorption),and preparing easy delicious recipes.
The first and most important principle I would like to cover today is just a basic understanding of Clean Eating. I feel there are two types of Clean Eating: Basic Clean Eating and (what I like to call) Uber-Clean Eating. For me, I needed to completely grasp and understand Basic Clean Eating before I could move forward and embrace Uber-Clean Eating.
Basic Clean Eating
To me, Basic Clean Eating is more than an organic idea; you see, all food is born clean (some more clean than others), whether it is fruits, vegetables, legumes, or nuts; beef, chicken, pork, turkey, or bison etc. are all born clean; however, the more contact the food has with humans prior to being consumed, the dirtier it becomes. So, for instance, in the case of a box of oatmeal versus a box of supposedly healthy cereal, this is what I look for: how many ingredients (that are foreign to me) are included in this box? The fewer ingredients I read, the cleaner the food. Remember, we are talking about healthful foods. Does that make sense? So, remember, in the beginning, less is more.
Uber-Clean Eating
Now, on the extreme end, you have Uber-Clean Eating (something I strive for daily but sometimes fall short). Uber-Clean eating (a name I attached to the extreme Clean Eaters) is everything Basic Clean eating is, plus a complete commitment to organic growing, harvesting, and raising. In other words, free of synthetic pesticides, insecticides, or synthetic fertilizers-and for meat, being raised without the use of any kind of chemicals or growth hormones.
The first part of the series will focus on Basic Clean eating, and the second part will introduce you to the world of Uber-Clean. To recap, we are exploring the concept of Clean Eating, a wonderful lifestyle diet that will result in you losing weight (if you need to), maintaining a healthy weight (if that is what is right for your body), and even gaining weight if need be. But, regardless of the effect, Eating Clean is a lifestyle diet that can have you feeling better than you ever imagined. |
