21 Days To Healthy Eating
The 21 Days To Healthy Eating ebook has recently been designed to help you restructure your approach to food to enable you to quickly begin to experience the health benefits of eating clean unprocessed foods.
At the same time, adjusting your strategy to eating is pointless unless you can easily maintain the new habits consistently. So the program outlined in 21 Days To Healthy Eating emphasizes a "one meal at a time" approach that makes the day-to-day decision to eat for health something that is not hard to stick with in the future.
If you have tried one diet after another, only to end up where you started, with no real adjustment to your ways of eating, then you"ll be pleasantly surprised at the approach adopted here, where real changes can be implemented in a 21 day course that can be carried out entirely at your own pace.
I've Heard I Should "Eat Clean" - What Does That Mean?
Clean eating is all about reducing the footprint of artificial substances in your diet. The reasons you would probably want to do this are many, but the most important one, from a purely selfish point of view, is that you want to improve your own health by doing so. Clean eating is one of the main topics in Carolyn Hansen's book "21 Days To Healthy Eating".
You may be wondering whether there exists a difference between eating clean and eating organic. Well, eating organic and natural foods is a subset of eating clean foods. You will not always be in the position to choose between eating an organically-grown piece of fruit (free of all pesticides) and the one which may have come in contact with chemicals during the period in which it was grown. Organic foods are always to be preferred, but a properly treated (washed and possibly peeled) fruit or vegetable that has been exposed to chemicals is going to be a lot more nutritious eaten raw or lightly cooked than the same food after it has gone through a processing line.
As an example, take a jar of peaches floating in syrup. Those are probably not organically grown peaches in that jar. But they are peeled, and you would be a lot better off eating the peeled fruit just after it has been taken from the tree, than to eat those processed and jarred peaches. That sugary thick syrup they float in is packed with preservatives and is obviously rich in sugar content - perfect for adding a sizable number of calories to your meal. You know what happens when you eat too much sugar, right? It is converted into fat.
Actually sugar does a lot more harm in the long run than to simply make you fat. However the point we are attempting to make here is that it is the "processed" nature of foods that we are trying to avoid when eating clean. We are also trying to avoid added chemicals in whatever form they might come in. So there are "degrees" of cleanliness in regards to choosing our clean foods. Pure organically grown up foods that are never processed for distribution, or packaged, before they are eaten, are probably the cleanest foods.
You can find the clean foods on the inside walls of your supermarket. This is where you find produce and meats that have a limited shelf life. Whenever you can manage it, avoid the inner aisles of the store. This is where you will find aisle after aisle of processed foods that contain a very long shelf life because they have had the "living components" extinguished before being packaged. Usually this means all the valuable enzymatic aspects of the food have been destroyed, components that carry most of the nutrition that could have benefited your body, but now have been removed.
A little appreciated fact about processed foods is that the chemicals they carry slowly poison your body, and that in response to this the body tries to seal off the "pollutants" by wrapping them in protective fat. The entire body tries to insulate the critical organs from the effects of these chemicals. The end result, though, is pounds and pounds of extra fat over time. Not only that, but the more of this "polluted fat" you carry, the harder it is to shed it because to do so would require flooding your body with the toxins that have been stored away for protection.
So before you can lose a lot of your fat reserves, especially if you make a habit of eating processed foods, you"ll need to detoxify your body by eating clean for a length of time. To learn more about how this all works, and what kind of meals you can prepare that stick closely to this clean eating strategy.
You"ll find plenty of practical advice how to shop for clean foods, how to prepare clean meals that contain the right balance of food groups to ensure optimal fat-burning, and further tips to ensure that you can get rid of the excess fat on your body that could have built up from years of eating processed foods.
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