Best Nutrition Tip of All Time?

This nutrition tip bears repeating...

In my opinion the absolute best thing you can do to lose weight, get healthy, or live a life full of energy is to eat by this ONE RULE:

"Only eat whole foods with ONE ingredient."

The reason why one ingredient whole foods are the best for you is thatthey contain zero processing, and therefore are the most naturally nutrient packed, which provides you with the maximum enzymes, nutrients, and energy to fuel your body with.

Plus, they are satiating and are the exact foods nature intended us to eat.

Some of the best ones in the grocery store don't even have a label... (keep in mind that if the food doesn't have a label on it that's usually a dead give away that it's probably a one ingredient whole food.)

Here are some examples of one ingredient whole foods:

*Spinach
*Apples
*Broccoli
*Kiwis
*Berries
*Kale
*Celery
*Chicken
*Salmon
*Eggs
*Quinoa
*Brown rice
*Oats
*Yams
*Almonds
*Walnuts
*Sunflower seeds
*Raw honey
*Spring water
*Herbal tea


The items above are just examples to get you thinking of hundreds of other items that make the cut.

Pretty much all vegetables, fruits, whole grains, meats, fish, eggs, nuts, and natural beverages are single ingredient items that can all be beneficial for you.

However, you have to keep in mind that if any of the items above are placed in sealed containers they may have been processed out of their natural state. Be aware of this since if they have been processed to increase shelf life or processed in anyway, then they are most likely no longer a ONE ingredient natural food, but rather a chemically processed man-made food product.

Here are some examples of so-called natural foods that have been processed:

*Fruit juices (heated, condensed sugar - not fresh squeezed)

*Vitamin waters (it's sugar water with synthetic vitamin derivatives)

*Breads (except some rare, cold processed varieties)

*Overcooked "to-go" vegetables (overheated and destroyed enzymes)

*Processed fruit smoothies (heated, not made fresh and usually have sugar added)

*Roasted salted nuts (not same as raw, but not a bad choice)\

*Processed sugar and other sweeteners (Lo Han, stevia, and raw honey are better choices)


Of course, there are certain exceptions to this rule, as in food combining other WHOLE ONE ingredient foods as in the making of hummus, which includes natural uncooked chickpeas, olive oil, and sea salt. 

But, it's still better to focus the majority of the time on simple clean, all-natural one ingredient eating.

I don't want to overload this article with detailed do's and don'ts. Instead, if you can make 80% or more of your foods ONE ingredient, 'no-label,' whole foods then I have no doubt you'll be on your way to living a life full of vibrance and looking in the mirror at the image of someone who looks fit, lean, young, and healthy.

Remember, your living body is made up of what you put it into it, so you literally are what you eat!

Here's to eating how nature intended us to!