Natural Foods

Natural foods are foods that are as close to how nature created them with little or no alteration or intervention.  Eating Natural Foods allows the most nutrients into your body without the addition of chemicals which promotes healthier body function.

Natural foods are foods that are minimally processed and do not include ingredients such as:

  • refined sugars
  • refined flours
  • milled grains
  • hydrogenated oils
  • sweeteners
  • artificial colors or flavorings

Sucanat, stevia, raw honey, agave syrup and maple syrup are sweeteners often used in place of white sugar in a natural foods diet. Sea salt is also preferred over table salt.

Proponents of natural foods diets argue that refined ingredients promote obesity, diabetes, cancer, and heart disease.

Conditions that Natural Foods has been known to help:

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History of Natural Foods

During the natural food movement, natural foods were made popular in America and Western Europe during the 1970s.

Its principles include avoiding artificial ingredients and 'processed' foods such as refined sugar and white flour.

Food produced or sold according to the ideals of the natural food movement is sometimes known colloquially as 'health food,' although many people also use that term in a broader sense to mean any type of healthy eating.

Although in modern times the natural food diet has largely been practiced only by a minority, it has frequently influenced the way the wider population eats.

Alternate Names

Organic Foods, Raw Foods

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