How to Eat Organic Health Food

By Lynn, webmaster of A Natural Food Diet | Natural Food Articles

Here's the good part! So you've decided to eat more natural foods (real food) and you wonder if there's something special you have to do. The good news is that the answer is "not really." Real vegetables and fruits are great the way they are, but they can be combined and made into fabulous side dishes without over processing.

Avoid deep frying and high-heat cooking.
Eat a variety of plant foods and don't be afraid to try new things.
Eat some fruit and vegetable produce raw and some cooked. Each method of preparation allows for a different variety of nutrients and vitamins to make it into your body when you eat them.
Eat leafy greens raw sometimes, and wilted sometimes.
Remember the healthy food pyramid. (See picture below.) Choose natural foods and real foods instead of "convenient" processed foods. Follow this link for some "convenient" unprocessed natural foods I use when I need to get food on the table quickly.
Avoid cooking your food in non-stick cookware. (I once seriously overheated a pan and could see and smell the vapors coming off it. You don't want these in your food! I now use stainless steel and iron.)
Eat natural, real food substitutions instead of processed foods whenever you can.

Healthly Urban Kitchen Cookbook

I don't agree with everything in this book (for example, I think dairy products are fine if they're certified organic), but it's a great place to start if you need help designing your own natural food diet.

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Ingredients Used

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Section : Natural Food Articles

Real Food Is...: Guide to choosing and eating real food
Natural Food Diet: Why your diet should contain natural foods
Natural Food Recipes: A selection of recipes using delicious, whole, natural foods
Convenient Natural Food: Natural convenience foods—not an oxymoron

Resources

Organic Gardening Magic

Growing your own organic garden is one way to insure you have the safest, freshest fruit and vegetable produce around. This book can help you start your own organic garden so you can harvest your own natural food.

Book Highlights

What Organic Gardening is and how to get started!
The Do's (and Don'ts!) of Making your Own Compost!
What you should never add to your compost or risk poisoning yourself and your family!
The Secrets of Crop Rotation and Companion Planting!
A Simple Yet Hardly Used Trick to Bring Your Fall Tomato Plants Indoors!
Why You Should Consider Raising Your Own Transplants
How To Build Healthy Soil (Even If You Are Working With Very Unhealthy Soil To Begin With)
Why soil pH is important, and how to correct it!
How to Recognize Your Friends and Your Enemies When It Comes To Insects!
Grow More Vegetables in Less Space Than You Thought Possible
Why Pesticide Use Became Prevalent In The First Place!
Simple Steps to Grow Your Own Organic Lettuce for mouthwatering healthy salads!
What is Green Manure and Should You Use It?
Are There Any Benefits Of Using Pesticides At All?
The Magic Mulch That Kills Diseases and Stops Weeds!
The Four Important Aspects Of Organic Gardening According to the USDA
Grow Organically Indoors!

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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan is only one of the many books I've read or listened to about eating natural food. The book discuss most of the principles I've incorporated into my lifestyle and of which I talk about on A Natural Food Diet. This book is a must read for anyone who worries about what the culture of nutritionism and the food industry's special interest groups are doing to our food supply.

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About A Natural Food Diet

I'm Lynn, the webmaster of A Natural Food Diet. I had the idea for this site when I realized how few people understood how dangerous our typical American diet is. For years, I have struggled to lose weight. After having children and making changes to my diet that seemed "healthy" at the time, I had gained over 50 pounds. I could never understand why I was gaining so much weight and why I was having such a hard time losing it, because until then, when I was about 25, I had never been overweight.

Slowly, as I researched different issues I was having with diet and health, I discovered the dangers of sugar. I had an allergic reaction to Sucralose. I began to associate a headache with hunger instead of an empty stomach. And after a "good" meal, I often felt light-headed. I worried that I was on the path to diabetes. Then, one day, I came across a book that changed my perspective forever.

Two months into the new natural food diet I had begun, I realized I had to share this information with other people. We have a right to live a truly healthy and natural life, and the profit potential of food products should never be allowed to come between us and our good health... Learn more...