Food is an important fuel for processes of life. As far as processes of life is concerned, natural richness is always right. Food should be as natural as possible. Eating healthy natural diet is not only good for human health but also healthy for natural environment and biodiversity.

Wrong Diet Can Cause Subliminal Stress

If you eat wrong food in order to fulfill your hunger and titillate your taste buds, your autonomous physical personality will get subliminally stressed affecting spiritual health without you ever realizing it.

Diet that weighs heavily on intestines, stomach and smooth muscles can build rigidity in the body, especially the biped humans. Overall body and Intestines respond differently to the diet that is available for digestion. The gut is happy if the diet is nutritious whereas it gets overworked if the diet is not nutritious.

Stress is one of the factors that can negatively affect your life and actions. By eating the right food, body is not only nourished but also relieved of some stress.

Natural Human Diet

Natural human abilities may be designed and empowered to eat a diet that is comprising of plants and small life-forms. For example, you cannot eat a cow or goat as naturally as you can eat an egg or a potato or milk. Hence, eating cow or goat is not as natural for humans as eating fruits, vegetables and small animals.

However, by the principle of “treat others as you would like yourself to be treated” taking life for food is not a good idea for civilized humanity. Also, non-violence towards innocent life forms is higher philosophy and principle of life that can guide you in the right direction in the greater scheme of living.

Scientists, nutritionists, food corporations, religions, cultures, and traditions make claims and counter claims about healthy eating. That leaves us confused about what exactly should be eaten.

You can follow the richness of nature without bothering yourself about the claims and counter claims about food. Let the rich mother nature decide what you eat. 

Eat Naturally Existing Organic Nutritious Food

Try to eat food that can grow naturally and exist naturally in edible forms. For example, try to eat ripe fruits and vegetables.

By eating food in its natural state, you will eat only as much as you need and save yourself from the harm of overeating processed food. Your body will absorb the right quantity of food at the right rate.

Eat Minimally Processed Food

If you have to eat processed food, try to eat minimally processed food. While processing can neutralize defensive chemicals in natural food while making it palatable and nourishing, unnatural processing can destroy the liveliness of food and its natural qualities.

Unnaturally processed food like refined carbohydrates, unnaturally preserved food, unnatural fats etc.. are proven to produce harmful effects on body like obesity, cancer, low energy, diabetes, heart disease, kidney failures etc.

Follow Natural Healthy Cooking Practice

Process is natural if it can be repeated by human single handedly using natural resources. Do not destroy the natural quality of food in the name of religion, culture or tradition.

Processing food can make it last longer, makes it palatable, easy to digest and absorb. Hence, food has been processed since ancient times. Try to eat food that is processed by natural means. For example, cooking (in vessels that have been used for thousands of years like clay pots, cast iron etc..), freezing, drying, pickling, boiling, triturating, steaming, adding natural preservatives etc.. are some of the natural food processing techniques.

On the contrary, cooking under high pressure, adding synthetic chemicals for preservation and processing, using unnatural food processing techniques, unnatural flavors can greatly affect the liveliness and natural richness of the food.

It is always advisable to use processes that replicate nature and which have been used for thousands of years by humans without aid of technology. 

Heavily processed food may satiate hunger but does not nourish. Rather, it burdens the body, gets deposited in body like garbage as a result of which you do not get nourished, and you feel like eating more.

Know What You Eat

When you buy packaged food, most of the time the ingredients will include preservatives, stabilizers, colors, flavors etc.. which do not exist naturally. Do not eat what does not exist naturally.

Rather, go for the food which has mixture of naturally existing food ingredients. The safety studies of food are conducted to meet government regulations only.

The safety studies regarding additives do not prove that no harm is done by the food or it’s ingredients. It is wise to trust richness of nature when it comes to processes of life like eating.

Eat Balanced Diet Including Diverse Natural Foods

Except in case of allergic conditions, eating a diverse type of foods is advisable rather than eating food supplements. This way you will not only enjoy the food but also get wide variety of nutrients that you need. By eating diverse variety of natural foods, you will also support the diversity of rich nature.

However, eat food supplements like multivitamins with minerals if you cannot eat rich healthy natural diet.

Hunger Is The Best Recipe

Hunger is a natural biological state. In affluent societies, people have almost forgotten hunger. It is necessary for the body to build hunger so that you can enjoy food. Due to lack of hunger, you crave for exotic and intense tastes and end up eating unhealthy unnatural food.

Hunger has other health benefits like fasting-like effect on body. In order to enjoy natural and simple food allow hunger to build. Then you will not crave for exotic or intense tasting foods. Hungry, you will relish nature. Hunger is the best recipe.

Eat Moderately

Moderation is a golden rule for everything in life. Food is no exception. Overeating induces lethargy and distends the stomach. Under eating may leave you undernourished and unsatisfied. Eating in moderation is one of the golden rules.

Eat With Awareness of Your Eating Habits

For healthy eating, you should be aware of your own eating habits, what you are eating, and what kind of effect food has on your body. By being aware while eating, not just your palate but your whole body is receptive to what you eat.

Awareness and eating natural food is necessary for healthy eating rather than intricate sciences and logic of scientists, nutritionists and food corporations.

If you are fully self-aware, you are sensitive towards your nutritional requirements depending on your lifestyle. Select your diet according to how you feel after eating it and do not entirely depend on advertisements.

Eat at The Right Time

Eat a sumptuous breakfast, eat moderate lunch and eat less food for dinner.

Eat sumptuous breakfast because the absorption of food is vigorous in the daytime. Try to eat dinner before sunset because in the evening your biological clock is geared towards sleep. Eat while seating in right posture so that you do not eat too much nor too little and food is optimally digested and absorbed.