Clean Eating Diet, Consuming Natural And Whole Foods To Maintain A Healthy Body

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JAKARTA - From various types of diets, clean eating diets are classified as flexible. The rules are not strict but it requires good knowledge before or when you are on this diet.

Clean eating diet is a diet that chooses 'clean' food as a daily menu. What is 'clean' food? As the word implies, a diet that prioritizes food hygiene does not necessarily wash food before eating it.

But foods that are used as a clean eating diet have natural ingredients and are whole. What is meant by intact is that it has not undergone any processing process. This means raw food or raw food from vegetables, fruits, nuts, vegetable protein, and healthy oils.

According to nutritionist Jacklyn London, although the clean eating diet is quite popular, there are still many people who misunderstand the diet on this diet. Attempting to approach dietary rules by consuming clean foods is indeed challenging.

Because there are so many brands that claim their products as clean, healthy, and natural food. So, if you are interested in having a healthy diet that doesn't have many rules, here are suggestions for choosing a clean eating diet.

The origins of food are clearly selected

A food brand that can be trusted will provide a complete and transparent product description.

This information will make it easier to sort and select food ingredients for the clean eating diet menu. To be sure, you need to know the origin and how these foods are processed.

Understand the content of each food

Not a few claims that healthy food contains only one substance. But for those who run a diet, complex nutrition is needed for daily intake. So to keep the body's nutritional needs balanced, an understanding of the content of each food is needed.

Eat a variety of foods

Because there are no strict rules, you just need to identify which foods are natural and minimally processed, so keeping a clean eating diet is easy. Well, what's even more fun about this diet is that the more varied the food is, the happier you are.

Based on a study published in Harvard Health Publishing, Harvard Medical School states that nutritional intake in a clean eating diet is related to mood. The cleaner the diet, the better your mood will be. How can food affect feelings?

Serotonin, a happy hormone, is able to regulate sleep, mood, and inhibits pain as much as 95 percent is produced in the digestive tract. Because these findings mean it makes sense that clean food has a big influence on a person's emotions.