Holistic Nutrition with Clean Eating
Clean eating is part of HOLISTIC LIVING and a HOLISTIC NUTRITION. It is a dietary approach, that emphasizes the consumption of natural, fresh and unprocessed foods while avoiding or minimizing the intake of refined and processed ones. Clean Eating also means to eat only food products, who are grown or produced in an ethical way with fair trade and sustainable delivery.
The idea of clean eating derives from Yoga. By eating clean and natural food, we can connect better with the highest universal energies. Clean Eating also includes, to adjust the nutrition to the individual digestion power. This way, Clean Eating promotes overall health, well-being, and the prevention of various health issues.
Key Principles of Clean Eating
Food items from an ethical source
Clean Eating is also about food items, dishes and drinks from ethical sources. With food, we eat the energy the way it has been produced and prepared, which should be always out of love. This means that the cultivation, harvesting, distribution and trade of food items should be ethical and fair. No being should be harmed, neither the producer nor the food itself.
When it comes to animal products, we should the consume to a minimum and eat only for medical reasons. In general animals and plants should be treated gently. Their products should be taken in loving way, without any killing if possible.
Sustainable Food items
Take care that the food items are produced in a sustainable way, without harming nature or being and unnecessary packaging.
Choose producers, who care for the farmers and the people, who prepared your food.
Nature and Whole Food items
Focus on wholesome, minimally processed foods such as fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean proteins, and healthy fats.
Choose food items in their natural state, avoiding highly processed and packaged options.
Minimize Processed Food Items
Limit or eliminate the intake of processed foods that often contain additives, preservatives, and artificial ingredients.
Be mindful of ingredient lists and choose products with fewer, recognizable ingredients.
Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
Prioritize a variety of colorful fresh fruits and vegetables, as they provide a wide range of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants.
Fresh and Healthy Food
Easy to Digest Proteins and Carbohydrates
Eat more easy to digest proteins and carbohydrates like in lentils, legumes, nuts, and seeds. Integrate Cereal Alternatives like quinoa, amaranth, buckwheat, tiger nut and millet.
Natural sweeteners
Instead of white sugar, always choose natural sweeteners such as raw cane sugar, coconut blossom sugar, date sweetener or stevia. Birch sugar and erythritol are even good for your teeth.
Healthy Fats
Take only fats from plants, which have a high content in saturated fats like sesame oil or line seed oil. Also integrate Ghee in you food, cleared butter fat from Ayurveda, as it is promoting metabolism and cleansing of the cells and is nourishing our nervous system.
Sufficient Hydration for your body
Stay hydrated by drinking plenty of pure water with good quality throughout the day. Limit the consumption of sugary drinks and go for herbal teas and fresh juices from ripe and organic fruits and vegetables.
Perfect Amount of Food
Pay attention to portion sizes to avoid overeating, even with healthy foods. Eat mindfully and listen to your body’s hunger and fullness.
Cook fresh and with love
Plan and prepare meals at home using fresh ingredients to have better control over what you eat.
Prepare your food with love. Make sure you only eat food, which is prepared with love.
Eat in Peace
Avoid loud and troublesome places for eating. Look for a quite and clean place, where you can also digest in peace.
