10 Unexpected Advantages to Eating a Whole Food Diet

Instead of restrictive diets, more people are focusing on avoiding processed junk and eating healthy whole foods instead. While all food is processed to some extent, mechanical processes, such as churning milk into butter, are not harmful. However, foods that are chemically processed, such as prepackaged bread or frozen dinners, can cause a variety of unhealthy issues. When you switch from processed foods to whole foods you gain many health benefits, which are foods that do not have chemical additives or artificial subjects, you gain a variety of benefits. In addition to obvious advantages such as weight loss, you will find that there are many surprising healthy benefits to eating a whole food diet with a lot of fruits, vegetables and grains.

Advantages and health benefits of Eating a Whole Food Diet:

1. Less Risk of Heart Disease
Eating a lot of whole grains, fruits, and vegetables greatly increases the amount of fiber in your diet. Researchers have found that a high fiber diet greatly helps to protect your heart from damaging cardiovascular disease.

2. Advance Addiction Recovery
If you are undergoing drug rehab, a diet of whole foods can help to lessen the damage from previous addictions. Whole foods restore missing nutrients and help to lessen the stress your body undergoes during withdrawal phases.

3. Mood Improvement
Studies have shown that eating all of the trans fats found in processed food increases stress, irritability, and aggression. Human bodies are not really designed to handle unnatural trans fats, so they can negatively affect the brain. By cutting these out of your diet, you can feel more relaxed and lower your levels of cortisol stress hormones.

4. Easily Eat a Balanced Diet
While processed foods may have unnaturally high levels of fats or sugars, most fruits, vegetables, grains, and beans naturally grow with correct proportions of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates. They also contain high levels of vitamins, minerals, and nutrients, so simple meals can provide all of your needed daily vitamin values.

5. Stronger Bones
Many vegetables offer forms of calcium, magnesium, and vitamin K that the body can absorb easier than animal-based versions of those minerals. Your body uses these minerals and vitamins to create strong, healthy bones that are less likely to break or develop osteoporosis in later years.

6. Higher IQ
When growing children eat boxed foods with high levels of sugar and fat, their IQ decreases as they age. Research suggests that children who eat a diet of whole foods will be smarter than their peers who only have processed food.

7. Look Better
The grains that often make up a lot of a whole foods diet contain zinc, which is responsible for building hair, and vitamin B2, which is an important part of creating skin. This means that a diet high in whole grains results in shiny, strong, full hair and soft, smooth, glowing skin.

8. Decrease Diabetes
A diet with a lot of grains, fruits, and vegetables will lower your risk of developing type 2 diabetes. If you already have type 2 diabetes, a whole food and vegan diet is one of the best ways to manage your blood sugar. The natural sugars found in fruits have a low glycemic index and contain fibers that slow down sugar absorption, so they will not cause blood sugar spikes as much as processed, sugary desserts do.

9. Appear Younger
Many vegetables contain a variety of phytonutrients which help to diminish cell damage from stress or environmental toxins. Red and orange vegetables provide lycopene, which helps to prevent sun damage, and the vitamin C found in other forms of whole foods assists in producing collagen, which lessens signs of aging.

10. Save Money
Instead of spending an excessive amount of income on over processed name brand foods, your groceries will mostly consist of grains, legumes, vegetables, and other whole foods. Since you are not paying other companies to cook or preserve your foods, most whole food items are cheaper than their processed counterparts.

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