This healthy diet plan, based on plant foods, is the key to permanent weight loss

A healthy diet plan must provide us with premium fuel to run our bodies. Our metabolism demands a steady stream of important nutrients. When important nutrients are in short supply, our bodies develop disease.  Many people are not aware of the clear link between vegetarianism and health. Here is a brief summary of the current thinking by prominent nutrition scientists.

Luckily, we have a built-in system that analyzes all of the food we eat. If we are missing some of the raw materials our body needs, our brain tells us to eat more food.

Our prehistoric ancestors couldn't order out for a pizza. Catching animals to eat was hard work....and it burned too many calories. Wild animals were dangerous too. It was easier to eat foods that didn't fight back. The main foods available were whole unprocessed plant foods. So when the brain sent out the hunger message, our ancestors usually ate plants. 

Our digestive tracts and nutritional needs have barely changed since those days. But the foods available to us are very different. We now live in a toxic food environment.

In a typical supermarket, the produce section takes up one or two aisles of a huge store. Dried and canned beans rate a shelf or two. Whole grains are hard to find. Processed foods fill the remaining food aisles.

If we go out to eat, it is even worse. Restaurants provide rich, fatty food that drives our primitive tastebuds crazy. Unfortunately, this food is lacking in the plant nutrients our bodies need. After eating it, our brains tell us to...you guessed it...eat more food.

• Plants contain fiber. In fact, fiber is found only in the cell walls of plants. No animal food contains fiber. A healthy diet plan should contain plenty of fiber to help us lose weight and keep us in good health. 
  
  Learn all about the high fiber plant-based diet we recommend. It is simple and you don't need to count grams of fiber.
  
  We will also show you  how to select the high fiber foods that are best for weight loss. Some foods can make you fat, even if they are high in fiber. 

  


• Plants are low cholesterol foods. In fact, they contain no cholesterol at all. You have probably heard that we need some cholesterol. We do need cholesterol to build cell walls and hormones. But our body makes all the cholesterol we need. We don't have to eat it. 
  
  When we eat food that contains cholesterol, it plugs up our arteries. Calorie for calorie, chicken and fish contain about as much cholesterol as beef. Carnivores can eat cholesterol without getting heart disease. Humans can't. If you feed cholesterol to rabbits, they get heart disease just like humans do. What does this tell us?



• Plants contain good carbohydrates. Carbs provide energy for our bodies and are the only fuel for our brains. A healthy diet plan must contain lots of carbohydrates from whole plants.
   
  Lactose and galactose, the carbohydrates from cows' milk, cause health problems in millions of people. They are two very bad carbs. Here is a list of the other bad carbs.
  
  

• Plants contain phytonutrients, also called phytochemicals. Phytonutrients are the wonderful chemical compounds that "paint" the bright colors on fruits and vegetables. They slow aging and help protect us from disease. 
  
  Scientists only recently discovered phytonutrients. We now know they are very important for good health. As we create our healthy diet plan, we want to focus on eating large amounts of phytonutrients. They are found only in plants.
  
  

• Many plants have a high nutrient density. They have lots of nutrients per calorie.  A good supply of nutrients turns off our hunger drive and stops our brains from screaming "eat more food."

  
  

• Plants are the basis of a alkaline diet. Our body should be slightly alkaline for good health. Most animal foods are acid-forming. A plant-based diet is usually alkaline.

Plants are nutritional stars. Plants are our friends. Plants must be the basis of any healthy diet plan. 

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