What Is Real Food?
This video is of me showing what I feel is Real Food VS NOT Real Food.
Real Food Feeds and Nourishes You
You might have your own definition of Real Food which will depend upon what you want or need in your life.
You may crave energy. You may want strength. You may need balance or healing.
Some people would consider beauty or love essential food for their lives.
You may crave energy. You may want strength. You may need balance or healing.
Some people would consider beauty or love essential food for their lives.
Real Food is food in its most natural state; it is unprocessed or with very little processing.
Real food does not need a label or fancy packaging. A lemon is a lemon. An onion is an onion. Real Food is a whole food that is life sustaining.
Real food does not need a label or fancy packaging. A lemon is a lemon. An onion is an onion. Real Food is a whole food that is life sustaining.
Whole Foods are: “Foods that have been minimally refined or processed, and are eaten in their natural state. In general, nothing is removed from, or added to, the foodstuffs in preparation. Wholegrain cereal products are made by milling the complete grain.” Definition is from www.encyclopedia.com
Our bodies were designed to digest Real Food. The best Real Foods to me are called Powerfoods.
Benefits of Real Food:
1. Full of naturally occurring vitamins and minerals to build and nourish the body.
If you research supplements carefully you will find that the better more expensive supplements provide a wider and more sophisticated complement of ingredients. They are actually trying to get the combination and chemical structure closer and closer to the whole food state. You might ask at some point: why not just eat the food?
2. No added fat
Too much fat makes you fat. The high levels of fat added to processed foods and junk food is the ‘bad’ kind that now has been shown to increase heart disease, obesity.
Real Food nuts, on the other hand, have fat in them but it is often the ‘good kind’ that has been shown to help weight loss.
Real Food nuts, on the other hand, have fat in them but it is often the ‘good kind’ that has been shown to help weight loss.
White sugar (and similar high processed sugars) makes you fat, creates anxiety and depression, increases diabetes, heart problems and rots your teeth, and suppresses your immune system.
Processed foods almost always have sugar added to them since they know it is addictive and they want to eat as much as possible.
Most real foods (except meat) have carbohydrates in them, usually in lower quantities, but even if there are higher amounts of carbohydrates, such as in fruit, it is more slowly absorbed into the system because of fiber and other whole food elements so the sugars are not absorbed so quickly. We call these smart carbs.
This means you get energy but without the problems.
Processed foods almost always have sugar added to them since they know it is addictive and they want to eat as much as possible.
Most real foods (except meat) have carbohydrates in them, usually in lower quantities, but even if there are higher amounts of carbohydrates, such as in fruit, it is more slowly absorbed into the system because of fiber and other whole food elements so the sugars are not absorbed so quickly. We call these smart carbs.
This means you get energy but without the problems.
4. No added salt
To much salt is hard on the kidneys and creates high blood pressure. It ends up being one more toxin the body must deal with.
Real foods have a minimal amount of naturally occurring sodium which is actually good for the body.
Most processed foods have added salt in increase the flavor (even if it is very sweet) so you will eat more and eat more often.
Most processed foods have added salt in increase the flavor (even if it is very sweet) so you will eat more and eat more often.
5. Real Food Looks, Smells and Feels Great
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Ingredients:
2/3 cup virgin coconut oil, melted*
1/2 cup coconut or palm sugar, ground finely
1/4 tsp stevia, light liquid
2 tbsp golden flax meal (ground flax seeds)
1/4 cup warm clean water
2/3 cup brown rice flour
1/3 cup rolled oats
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp Himalayan Salt
1 tsp vanilla
2/3 cup sunflower seeds
1/2 cup pumpkin seeds
1/3 cup almonds
1/2 cup raisins, unsulfured, unsweetened
1/2 cup coconut or palm sugar, ground finely
1/4 tsp stevia, light liquid
2 tbsp golden flax meal (ground flax seeds)
1/4 cup warm clean water
2/3 cup brown rice flour
1/3 cup rolled oats
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp Himalayan Salt
1 tsp vanilla
2/3 cup sunflower seeds
1/2 cup pumpkin seeds
1/3 cup almonds
1/2 cup raisins, unsulfured, unsweetened
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 325º F
- Add warm water to flax meal in a small bowl and mix; let sit 5 minutes.
- Combine coconut oil, sugar, vanilla, stevia and salt until creamy.
- Add flax meal mixture to coconut oil mixture and mix well.
- Then mix in brown rice flour and baking powder.
- Mix in oatmeal, fruit, seeds and nuts.
- Make little one inch mounds, place on a coconut greased baking sheet and flatten each one.
- Bake for 10 to 15 minutes.
- Take out of the oven and let cool before removing from the pan.
*Melt coconut oil on very low heat.
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