Whole foods are foods that have gone through very little processing, and contain no additives or artificial ingredients. In other words, they are as close to their original form as possible. Whole grains, fruit, and vegetables are all examples of whole foods. What is the importance of cooking with whole foods?

Cook With Whole Foods To Prevent Disease

Many aspects of your future health are in your hands. Eating a healthy diet full of whole foods is an aspect of health that you have complete control over.

Cooking with whole foods can help prevent stroke, heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and high blood sugar. And while these issues are known to occur from a poor diet, there are other issues that are being researched and studied as well. For instance, some whole foods protect against cancer and may decrease your chances of developing it.

“(A study) found that around 1 out of 10 cancers (10%) may be linked to diet.” – Cancer Research UK

Cook With Whole Foods To Improve Current Health

There are many people who have claimed to return to good health after changing their diet and eating whole foods. For instance, Terry L. Wahls, MD, claims that she was able to ease her symptoms by adopting the Paleo diet, which is a diet that is based on whole foods that were eaten by early humans. In fact, she was in a wheelchair when she began to change her diet, and now she is jogging on a treadmill.

Other people claimed to have cure their diabetes, cancer, hypothyroidism, depression, autism, and much more through their diet. The fact that food is medicine, and has a huge influence over our health, has not gone unnoticed by the many people who have used whole food to not only eliminate disease, but gain energy and have a better sense of well-being.

There are even some medical professionals who promote whole food as a way to improve health when it comes to diseases. For instance, Dr. T. Colin Campbell wrote a whole book, called The China Study, to explain how cancer is developed and what a whole food diet (plant based) can do to prevent or reverse it.

Cook With Whole Foods To Lose Weight

Lastly, cooking with whole foods can help you lose weight. Whole foods tend to have fewer calories and less fat, which help you maintain an appropriate calorie intake. However there is another reason that whole foods can promote weight loss – hormones.

Hormones play a huge role in how well our metabolism functions. They dictate how hungry or full we feel, whether or not our food gets burned or stored, and whether or not we have cravings.

Some foods affect hormones in a negative way, such as foods that are high fat, synthetically made, or full of sugar. They can decrease beneficial hormones and cause hormone resistance. On the other hand, a healthy diet with whole foods that have not been synthetically altered can help to promote healthy hormone levels and decrease hormone resistance.