Thursday, January 12, 2012

Wholefoods is a LIFESTYLE not a DIET!!

Living A Wholefood Lifestyle Explained!


Happy new year all! Now with the new year in full swing there is so much talk in the air about EXTREME, DIET, DIET, DIET.... Lemon drink for 5days, Only Protein for 10 days & who could forget the Atkins & Liquid Shake diets!!! Ahhhhhh they terrify me as education is the key to power, power is the key to making the right decisions for your health & learning how easy it actually is to lead a life full of abundance through a balanced, simplistic & wholefood diet. Those extreme diets do not offer any of this & instead give your body shock, a short term fix & leave you chasing your tail to a healthier YOU.

It really is simple & over the coming weeks I am going to teach you the basics to creating your own Wholefood kitchen & developing your own wholefood lifestyle through facts about Nutrition, where to shop, how to store the foods, recipes, food labeling, fats, salt, sugars & how to actually put together a basic meal from a box of vegetables. Today I am going to start with the basics, what to include & what to start cutting out.

A healthy balanced diet & lifestyle should consist of the following. Each heading will be explained in detail over the coming weeks.
Carbohydrates
Raw rolled Spelt or Oats, Buckwheat, Quinoa, Rye or Spelt bread, Spelt Pasta & Gluten Free Seeded breads.

Proteins
Fresh Fish, Organic Chicken, Organic lean meats, eggs, Legumes, tofu, raw nuts, raw seeds, & Organic Biodynamic dairy.

Good fats
Avocados, cold pressed extra virgin olive oil, Flaxseed oil, fish oils, Coconut Oil, Omega 3, 6 & 9.

Dietary Fibre
Fresh Fruits, Super greens & Vegetables.

Vitamins +Minerals
I will be going into more detail about all Vitamins & minerals, how they work & what foods are rich in essential vitamins & minerals needed on a daily basis. Always remember variety is the key, eat across all colours of the rainbow to avoid defficiency.

Water
1.5 to 2.5L per day (increase if exercising) 

Next week:
 we will  be starting with how to set up your wholefood kitchen, storage, where to shop & how to convert from packaged foods to raw wholefoods.
Recipe next week:
 will be how to make your own salad dressing from raw ingridients.

Enoy the journey to a more simplistic, easy, healthy & yummy way of life.
Peace



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