Foods from Nature
When you are interested in health you must view food according to what it will do to the body, not by how convenient it is or how good it tastes.
That is not to say that healthy food doesn't taste good!
Good nutrition means that you feed the body what it needs to heal itself, grow and have energy & vitality.
This means choosing foods that are close to how they are found in nature.
That is, foods that have not been manufactured or processed by man.
Foods like wild game & fish, fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and whole grains.
Whole foods contain all of the things needed for the optimal running of the human body.
Things in foods include vitamins, minerals and other important micro nutrients.
These micronutrients are substances sometimes referred to as secondary nutrients or food actives they include enzymes, co-enzymes, chlorophyll, antioxidants and phytochemicals.
If you are eating processed foods that only contain the macro nutrients such as protein, fat and carbohydrates then you are missing out on some of the vital parts of nutrition.
These important micro nutrients found in whole foods are needed for many reasons, such as; all cellular functions, to protect the cell & the DNA and also for the human immune system to be strong.
Take for example white bread, it has had most of the nutritious part of the grain removed so that the white bread is fluffy and tastes nice but most of the nutrition is gone.
It can be seen when manufacturers have to add back (man made isolated) vitamins to the foods in order to give them an adequate level of nutrition.
