What is a whole-food plant-based diet? When I begin to explain the answer to this question, most people respond with, "Oh, you mean a Vegan diet?" Well, no, not necessarily. A Vegan diet may mean someone that does not eat meat or dairy, but does eat chips, processed foods out of a box, drinks sodas, etc. You may be eliminating meat and dairy, but eating a lot of processed foods, fast foods, and drinking soda is not a healthy diet.
A whole-food plant based diet is eating a large variety of vegetables, fruits, beans, legumes, nuts and seeds. This diet is eating food that comes directly from nature, nothing added to it and or nothing taken out of it. Fresh vegetables and fruit give us so many vitamins and nutrients, phytochemicals and antioxidants, that our body becomes armed with ammunition to fight off heart disease, cancer, diabetes, respiratory problems, inflammation, kidney disease, depression, etc., etc., etc.
The next question is, "where do you get your protein?" There is a lot of protein in beans and lentils, but what most people do not know is there is protein in vegetables, especially green leafy vegetables. When eating a variety of vegetables as well as beans, it would be impossible not to get enough protein. By getting our protein from vegetables and beans, we get the added bonus of fiber, (which is so deficient in the typcial American diet), antioxidants and phytochemicals....compared to getting our protein from animal products that come packaged with saturated fat, cholesterol and NO fiber, antioxidants or phytochemicals!!
So, my question to you is, "Where do you get your protein from???" Let me show you the way........
A whole-food plant based diet is eating a large variety of vegetables, fruits, beans, legumes, nuts and seeds. This diet is eating food that comes directly from nature, nothing added to it and or nothing taken out of it. Fresh vegetables and fruit give us so many vitamins and nutrients, phytochemicals and antioxidants, that our body becomes armed with ammunition to fight off heart disease, cancer, diabetes, respiratory problems, inflammation, kidney disease, depression, etc., etc., etc.
The next question is, "where do you get your protein?" There is a lot of protein in beans and lentils, but what most people do not know is there is protein in vegetables, especially green leafy vegetables. When eating a variety of vegetables as well as beans, it would be impossible not to get enough protein. By getting our protein from vegetables and beans, we get the added bonus of fiber, (which is so deficient in the typcial American diet), antioxidants and phytochemicals....compared to getting our protein from animal products that come packaged with saturated fat, cholesterol and NO fiber, antioxidants or phytochemicals!!
So, my question to you is, "Where do you get your protein from???" Let me show you the way........
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