How Eating Clean Keeps You In Good Health?

What goes into your stomach, practically affects your brain and heart. The way you feel after you eat something is the result of nutrients that go inside your body. If you have not been in good health, you can try eating clean and see the positive changes in your health sooner than you think. You can take a look at the following benefits you receive when you eat clean:




1. Maintained body weight: When you eat clean, your body weight is maintained at an appropriate level. It reduces the risk of many diseases.

2. Balanced diet: Eating a balanced diet of clean foods also ensures that your body receives all kinds of nutrients required by it. It keeps your body weight in limits, bolsters immunity and keeps heart diseases at bay.

3. Micronutrients: The micronutrients in whole foods cannot be found in processed foods. The micronutrients consist of those components of foods which do not impart energy; still they are important for healthy functioning of cells and tissues.

There are two kinds of micronutrients, trace minerals and vitamins. The B-Vitamins are water soluble and they play an important role in enzyme reactions of your cells. Thus, your body is able to extract energy from fats, carbs and proteins you eat. Vitamin C is also water soluble and provides anti-oxidants to your body, which protect your body from environmental damage.

The major minerals in our diet are sodium, chloride, potassium, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, and sulfur. They should be consumed in a major proportion, at least 100 mg per day. Sodium, chloride and potassium play the role of electrolytes and conduct between the cells. This function is necessary for muscle contraction and nerve impulses. Calcium support the bones and magnesium is important for over 300 reactions of enzymes. The other trace minerals are also crucial for many other functions of our body.

4. Clean foods keep you full: There is no dearth of foods in clean diet that make you feel full for long hours, which is not the case with processed foods. You might have observed the unsatisfactory feeling that you get when you eat a hamburger and still crave for more. Clean foods keep you satisfied with even small amount of a meal. This also gives your peace of mind and hence, you can focus better on your professional and personal life. Moreover, you save a lot of money when you do not have to spend on junk foods.

5. Better digestion: Just by eliminating processed foods from your diet, you can heal most of the conditions related to your digestive system. Some of the foods that you must incorporate in your diet are:

Fruits: Apples, Avocados, Bananas, Canned fruits in water or fruit juice), Berries, Cantaloupe, Honeydew, Kiwi, Grapes, Mango, Papaya, Peaches, Nectarines, Pears, Watermelon and Prunes.

Vegetables: Beans (green, lima, navy, kidney, soybeans, yellow), Asparagus, Beets, Broccoli, Cabbage, Carrots, Brussels sprouts, Cauliflower, Corn, Kohlrabi, Cucumbers, Leeks, Onions, Mushrooms, Peppers (red, green, or yellow), Peas, Potatoes, Radishes, Sauerkraut, Rutabagas, Scallions, Squash, Spinach, Turnips, Tomatoes, Vegetable juices, Zucchini.

Meat/ Protein: Dried peas, lentils and beans; Eggs, Fish, Nuts, Lean meats, Peanut butter, Seeds, Poultry, Tofu.

Grains: Multigrain breads, crackers and cereals, Whole wheat pasta, Rice (wild or brown).

6. Clean food gives you more energy. When you consume more nutrients, vitamins and minerals; your body generates more energy. Thus, you can live your life in a better way and give more output at your workplace. When you are able to keep your body in good health, you remain cheerful and you are able to spread happiness. And, that is what all of us want from our life.