I like pure, simple, and great-tasting meals that are largely plant-based. When I eat this way I feel the best. I feel lighter, lose weight (when and if I want to), my elimination system works its best, and I am better able to handle stress. However one thing that is critical for me–to stick with the plant-based diet and actually turn it into a lifestyle–is how quickly I can make a meal.
Thankfully, the plant-based diet doesn’t require a lot of cooking to eat well. I take pure, simple ingredients and creatively combine them for a healthy meal or snack. I often will showcase fresh dishes that come from stores like Whole Foods, Jimbo’s (San Diego), Sprouts, Trader Joe’s, and other alternative-style grocery stores. The idea is to offer you simple ways to eat healthy and mostly plant-based. If you can do this, you’re more likely to stick with the plant-based diet lifestyle.
When you regularly eat foods that are rich in nutrients and are mostly plant-based, you find that your body is less likely to crave processed foods that have empty calories and will weigh you down.
Why You Must Try Plant-Based Eating for a Healthy Life
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- Plant-based eating allows you to give up counting calories and still stay lean and trim. A mostly plant-based diet is rich in nutrient-dense food that tastes good and fills you up. The fiber in plant-based foods causes them to calorically dilute–the result, you feel satisfied, even though you have consumed fewer calories than if you had eaten high-calorie fatty foods. These unhealthy foods require more to make you feel full.
- The most comprehensive diet study, The China Study, states that: The effect of dietary protein is so powerful that changing the levels consumed effectively turns cancer growth on or off.
- Plant-based foods provide you with a healthy dose of antioxidants, vitamins and minerals.
- When eating a healthy plant-based diet, common plant foods fully meet our calcium, iron and protein needs.
- Most people consume too much protein.
