Real food is whole, single ingredient food. It is mostly
unprocessed, free of chemicals additives, and rich in nutrients. Its type of
food human beings ate exclusively for thousands of years. Real food is food
that hasn’t been artificially created, has grown in soil. Real food is food
that our grand parents ate before mankind has learnt how to create artificial
preservatives, colors, and make processed foods, with sole purpose to generate
a lot of money. Eat real foods, the first rule of any healthy diet is to choose
unprocessed or whole foods and avoid highly processed and refined foods. Dr
Gregor defined a whole food as one with “nothing bad added, nothing good taken
away.” A whole food means an unprocessed food- a food that is still close to
the form in which it grew. It has not been broken down into its component parts
and refined into a different form. It's real food, if it came from plant eat it,
if it was made in a plant don’t. The truth is that unless you eat it fresh from
the garden, almost every food has undergone some form of processing. where do
we draw the line on the spectrum between reasonable adaptions that make our
food more accessible and adulterations that make it unhealthy. Let’s take an
example of steel cut oats. They are cut up, so they are whole food since all
their parts are intact. None of the important nutrients are have been removed
in the process, nothing has been added to them-no sugar, salt, oil or
preservatives, they are so minimally processed that they can be considered a
whole food. On the other side sugary, boxed oat cereals are processed.
reference
John Mackey
Whole Foods Diet
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