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How to Eat to Your Heart’s Content and Lose Weight

Isn’t it odd that people get fat so often?

There is no other animal in the wild that gets fat.

Even humans in indigenous tribes never seem to be overweight.

If in nature every creature is perfectly healthy and trim, why do we suffer from obesity in our civilized world?

After all, hunger should regulate depending on how much energy and nutrients we need.

The problem with the modern food supply is that we eat too many calories and too little nutrition.

If we ate a balanced whole plant food diet, we would undereat on our calories and overeat on our antioxidants and phytonutrients.

What Unhealthy Processed Foods Are and Why They Are So Bad for Us

Processed foods are ubiquitous.

On the supermarket shelves, on the news, on our tables…

We all know they are supposed to be bad for us but do we truly know what processed foods are?

Most people will think of a candy bar or chips.

That is just the top of the pyramid, though.

Any natural food that has parts of it removed or has been chemically altered is a heavily processed food.

Think of sweet beets and sugar. Olives and olive oil.

They have very little in common.

And neither the oil or the sugar is healthy.

The One Type of Food You Should Eat Daily

A diverse diet is key to great health. This is probably the only statement that is universally accepted across all of the nutritional world. Humans cannot relly on one type of food. There is, however, one type of food that has no side effects and contains more nutrition per calorie than any other type. Greens … Read more

The Unexpected Ways How Becoming Vegan Changes Your Outlook on Life

Before we became whole food plant eaters, vegan was an odd word describing an odd person.

Are the animals that important?

What’s the big deal about eating some animal products?!

Do you really need to see the world in black vs white, meat eaters vs vegans?

Nah…

We stopped eating animals but not for anybody or anything else but for the personal health gains that eating vegan offers.

Than, however, something strange happened.

Cooking Is Not a Chore, It’s a Privilege

A friend asked us recently how can he eat healthfully when he had only 15 minutes in the morning for preparing and eating his food.

Naturally, at first, we gave ideas about what he could do so in such a short time.

Prep some sandwich dip in advance, prepackage smoothie ingredients and freeze them…

Later that day, however, it dawned on us.

You never ever don’t have time for cooking and eating.

You prioritize not to.

What we eat determines our health and the state of our health determines our happiness. So, well, discarding food as a chore is, frankly, at best ignorance.

Ignorance that may cost us a lot down the line.

What Carbs Are and Why You Need Them

It seems that a healthy diet cannot be described without mentioning carbs.

They are more often than not vilified as the main culprit for the health crisis that we face today.

Yet, few people understand what carbohydrates actually are and the role they play in our bodies.

Without them, you will practically cease to exist.

Carbs are actually an all-important nutrient and energy source.

Here’s why.

How to Eat Carbs and Lose Weight

Carbs have been getting a bad press lately.

Cutting down on carbs has been promoted as a way to get lean and healthy.

However, most people don’t really understand what carbohydrates actually are, let alone how to avoid them.

And since carbohydrates are the main fuel for your brain and muscles, it is important to understand how and why they impact your health and waist.

Naturally, there are good and bad carbs.

Here’s how to choose the good ones and lose the extra weight in the process.

Why It Is Imperative to Eat Oil-free for Great Health

Oils are purported to be great for optimal health.

And there is a good reason for that.

Oils make food taste better and people want their favorite oils to be healthy for them.

Yet, oils are in fact processed fats in the same way sugar is a processed carbohydrate.

And are as unhealthy for you as their sugar cousins are.

Here’s why.

How We Store Energy After We Eat

The more we eat the fatter we get.

Or that’s what most of us are led to believe.

It is true, though, and why it is that some foods might make us fatter fast while others do not seem to be making such an impact on our waistlines?

Part of the answer lies in understanding what our energy sources are and how our bodies actually store the excess energy.

What Whole Plant Foods Are

A plant-based diet, a vegan diet, a whole foods plant-based diet…

They all seem to be used interchangeably by some but can have a vast difference for others.

At WellnessDove we think that there is a difference so here is what we understand by a whole plant foods.

The Allure of Processed Junk Foods Explained

What is food?

A simple question that everybody can answer.

Yet, the answers people give can be quite surprising.

Food can be fruits, vegetables, meat, dairy and even… a candy bar!

A candy bar is in essence super concentrated empty calories. But for some people it is food!

Why?!

Why, when we know that fruits and vegetables are best for us, do we eat processed foods?

What makes them so alluring?

Why Fruits Are Small and Bitter in the Wild and What It Means for Your Health

Is it not strange that its almost impossible to find any tomatoes growing in the wild?

Nor cucumbers, peppers or even apples?

Well, apples yes, but they are small and bitter.

How it is so that we should rely on the supermarket or special seeds to grow our food.

And, should it matter at all, for our health or otherwise?

Is Gluten Harmful and Should You Avoid it?

Gluten-free is the new buzzword in the health food stores.

It seems that flour products have suddenly become a hazard for our health.

Somehow we find it strange that a staple food of civilization has suddenly become the villain of modern health.

Simply put, the wheat we consume today is very different to the wheat varieties of old. And we are no longer eating whole wheat products.

However, in any case gluten can truly have some ill-effects on your health. Here’s why and what you can do about it.

Carbs are NOT a Villain

Carbohydrates have been getting a lot of bad press for quite a while now.

And still, everybody loves them and it seems that everybody cannot resist the guilty pleasure of enjoying them even if they know that they should not.

Why?

It’s rather simple, actually. Carbohydrates are the cleanest and best fuel for humans.

It is what most of us think what carbs are that is the problem.

Why Eating while Watching TV is even Unhealthier than You Think

Eating your dinner in front of the TV is a common practice.

It can be way more entertaining and joyful, truth be told.

Especially when you are eating a whole food plant-based diet.

That big bowl of oatmeal, it takes a lot of time to chew…

Is is truly so, though?

Why Cheese Is So Irresistible

Cheese seems to be the favorite food of almost everybody.

People might like or not meat, fish, eggs, broccoli or even cherries but cheese always seems to will the hearts.

Why is that?

Is cheese the perfect food or it is perfectly cunning and tricks us somehow?

Why You Do Not Need a Sugary Treat to Boost Your Energy

We all have felt that need to fill up on something sugary when we are tired.

The quick get-up-and-go effect of sweet foods is a sure way to quickly fuel up our brain and body.

Yet, it’s common knowledge now that sugar is not a friend to human health.

Highly glycemic foods send sugar into the bloodstream way faster than you could use it up. The pancreas is overworked to release way more insulin than is natural and insulin… Well, high insulin promotes growth, among else, to your fat tissues, causes you to age faster and all kinds of other mischief.

Why Whole Plant Foods

We all know that people are omnivores. Out of necessity. Like most other omnivores. Almost. The main difference between us and, say, bears, is that bears are carnivorous creatures who also eat a range of plant foods in order to survive. We are the other way around. We are herbivorous creatures who learned to eat … Read more

How Whole Plant Foods Keep You Healthy

Whole Natural Plant Foods, we believe, comprise the healthiest diet style there is. And the reason why is quite simple really: There are no processed foods in nature and humans are evolutionally and anatomically plant-eaters, not omnivores or carnivores. We have discussed the why already but you probably wonder about the how. How do whole … Read more

Gluten Is Not as Unhealthy as You Might Think

Gluten is a humble protein in wheat that makes bread rise.

It has also become a culprit for the worsening health of our society.

Gluten-free foods are becoming a common sight not only in health stores but in any given supermarket.

And for a good reason – gluten can truly be the reason why you have allergies, asthma, autoimmune diseases or else.

Should you forget about your favorite bread then?

Thankfully, the answer is NO!

Poor old gluten is not to blame. What we have done with the wheat mother nature gave us, is!

Diet and Asthma: Why Plant Foods Might Hold the Cure

Asthma is a condition which is affecting more and more people each year.

It basically is chronic inflammation of the lungs which makes them sensitive to certain inhaled substances.

Obviously, the obvious cause has to be the rising levels of air pollution.

Can it also be, though, that the food we eat could have a direct connection with how severe the asthma attacks are or if we develop asthma at all?!

Personally, we have seen first hand how after going plant-based, Andy is now off his allergy medication.

So we decided to explore and once again discovered how centering your diet on whole plant food is the path towards great health.

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