What are "whole foods"?

What are "whole foods"?

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Whole foods are simply foods that don't come in a package. They don't come in a box. It doesn't mean you're eating a whole turkey. It means that it's a whole food meaning that it hasn't been ground to a flour or ground to some sort of finite components. It's whole. It's like, for example, rice that hasn't had the husk removed from the rice. It's whole. And so that is what will improve your health because as all the nutrient components that helps us stay strong. If you think back there's two reasons why the people that came the generations before us were not as obese as we are now: One is they actually got out and did manual labor. The other is that they ate whole foods because nothing was processed. They hadn't figured out how to put it on the shelf with hydrogenated oils and they hadn't refined it and packaged it in all these different ways. Remember, if something is put in food to increase its shelf life; it will reduce your shelf life. Eat whole foods, natural foods, things that are grown from the ground.