Do you know what a Whole Food is - not the chain of food stores, the concept whole food? I just finally learned what it is and I am a 49 year old physically fit male, who doesn't exercise or diet much because my metabolism guards my weight, who is very aware of current events and trends. Recently I began to put on some weight and looked for healthy-eating advise.
I finally settled on one of the zillion eating habit experts. He said that I should eat mostly whole foods. Huh? I did not know that whole foods was actually a definition rather than just a trade name or a colloquialism. He said that a whole food is a natural (mostly) unprocessed and unaltered food - apple, egg, lettuce, nut and such and that it is much better to eat foods that nature has provided than processed foods. Now that is a concept that is easy to understand and keep in your mind.
Someone else explained it to me this way - Before you eat something, say like Cheese Doodles, ask this question - Would my great grandparents have considered this item food?
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