Eat Real Food: How to Eat a Whole Food, Plant-Based Diet
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Try Udemy for Business- Improve your health and weight with the natural low-calorie and high-nutrient density of whole plant foods.
- Enjoy better energy and mental clarity by fueling your brain and body optimally.
- Understand the nutritional value and health benefits of real, whole plant foods.
- Have a more positive and healthy relationship with your food.
- Choose the right foods at the grocery store that will provide the best results at home for eating whole food, plant-based.
- Access dozens of simple, wholesome, delicious, and optimally healthy meal ideas for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks.
- Choose the right foods beyond the kitchen when in restaurants or while traveling.
- Enjoy the comfort and peace of mind that comes with knowing how to nourish your body optimally.
- Create a life-long foundation of healthy eating habits.
- Access to a high-speed internet to enjoy a high quality of class videos.
- Access to a variety of fresh, wholesome, plant foods.
- Access to a kitchen to practice making some of the recipes and/or meal ideas referenced to in the course.
Eat Real Food takes you on a journey of creating a solid foundation for life to know what plant foods to eat and why.
What you choose to put on your plate and into your body each day plays one of the most important roles in creating your health, weight, energy, and wellbeing. Not only that, but today, what you choose to eat has a direct impact on our healthcare, environment, and entire society. We cast our vote most effectively for the kind of world we want to have by what we spend our money on and what we choose to eat. When you make the choice to eat whole plant foods, you are making the choice to not only help yourself, but help other humans, animals, and our entire Earth.
Eat Real Food is not a diet or a quick-fix, but a lifestyle and its success depends on a change in your perspective and habits.
Whether you are interested in reducing animal products, like meat, eggs, and dairy, or removing them completely from your diet, or looking to adopt a healthy vegan diet, this course will educate, inspire, and empower you to know how to eat right with confidence.
You will gain skills to know:
What foods make up a Whole Food, Plant-Based lifestyle diet
How to do groceries for wholesome plant foods
How different plant foods satisfy and benefit your nutritional needs
How to approach creating quick and easy, wholesome, plant-based meals
How to deal with concern foods like wheat, soy, oils, and sweeteners
How to eat in the best way possible beyond your home and kitchen
How to make the Whole Food, Plant-Based lifestyle successful and enjoyable
Eat Real Food liberates you from counting calories and obsessing about isolated nutrients; it teaches you to eat based on the intelligent design of whole plant foods!
This course teaches nutrition from a holistic perspective that focuses on the whole big picture, and NOT a narrow reductionist perspective that counts calories and isolated nutrients. You will learn how to focus on eating the right foods, instead of being distracted by trying to get individual nutrients.
The course provides 14 core lessons and 20 quick tip lessons that will help you create an optimal eating foundation for life. The course will provide you with over 3 hours of content and is divided into 4 sections, as follows:
Section 1 provides the basics of Whole Food, Plant-Based eating.
Section 2 presents what whole plant foods to eat and why, and tips for incorporating them into your diet.
Section 3 includes a practical summary of how you can approach Whole Food, Plant-Based eating in everyday life.
Section 4 offers quick tip lessons on a variety of plant-based topics to help you succeed and strengthen your understanding.
The course provides summary sheets for each of the 14 core lessons that you can download and print for quick reference and use. Lessons also include web links to other helpful resources, like articles and over 60 recipes and meal ideas.
NOTE: The "Eat Real Food" course does NOT focus on teaching plant-based cooking. If this is what you are looking for, then please refer to my course "Cook Real Food" here on Udemy. To best satisfy your expectations, please scan through the course curriculum to orient yourself with the topics covered and watch the free video lectures to determine if this is the right course for your current needs.
- This course is for anyone who is interested in improving their health, weight, or energy via a holistic, whole-food, plant-based approach.
- This course is best for beginners who would like to learn about or are just getting started with plant-based eating.
- This course is also suitable for those who are already familiar with plant-based eating, and are looking to further enrich their skills or gain new tips, confirmation, and inspiration.
- This course is NOT for people who are interested in consuming animal foods (meat, eggs, dairy) or processed foods.
- This course is NOT for people who want a reductionist approach to nutrition based on individual nutrients or numbers.
- This is NOT a cooking course, but a holistic nutrition course. Please see the "Cook Real Food" course if you want to learn how to cook whole plant foods.
In this lesson you will learn:
- about your teacher
- what whole-food, plant-based eating is
- why whole-food, plant-based eating is so beneficial for your health and weight
- why whole-food, plant-based eating is so beneficial for our Earth
In this lesson you will learn:
- the nutritional value of fruits, from a macro and micronutrient perspective
- how to understand sugar in fruits
- how to work with fruits; practical tips and preparation methods, including how to handle juices, jams, and fruit combining
- meal ideas for fruits
In this lesson you will learn:
- the nutritional properties of nuts; macro and micronutrients
- the variety of nuts to choose from as part of whole-food, plant-based eating
- what form of nuts to choose for optimal wellbeing
- how to prepare nuts based on soaking for maximum benefits
- what quantities of nuts are optimal
- nut meal ideas
In this lesson you will learn:
- the nutritional properties of seeds; micro and macronutrients
- what seeds provide an omega-3 fatty acid advantage
- the variety of seeds to choose from for your whole-food, plant-based diet
- what quality and quantity to consume seeds in
- meal ideas for incorporating seeds into our daily diet
- other forms of seed foods, like seed butters
In this lesson you will learn:
- the nutritional value of beans and legumes; micro and macronutrients
- the health benefits of beans and legumes
- the variety of beans and legumes to utilize as part of your whole-food, plant-based diet
- how to prepare beans optimally in terms of soaking and cooking
- how to handle soy, and all of its various forms (tofu, soy milk, tempeh, etc.)
In this lesson you will learn:
- the nutritional value of grains; micro and macronutrients
- the health benefits of grains, and why grains can be destructive for health and weight
- the two main types of grains and the variety of grains to utilize as part of your whole-food, plant-based diet
- how to handle wheat and gluten
- the quantity and quality of grains to focus on
- how to prepare grains optimally and grain meal ideas
- how to handle processed grain products, especially bread
In this lesson you will learn:
- the nutritional value of herbs and spices; micro and macronutrients
- the health benefits of herbs and spices
- the classifications of herbs and spices and the variety to use in your diet
- the quantity and quality of herbs and spices to work with
- optimal use of herbs and spices and meal ideas
- how to handle salt as part of the whole-food, plant-based diet
- other optimal ways to use herbs and spices: herbal tea
In this lesson you will learn about other specialty foods:
- mushrooms; nutrition and health benefits and use for meals
- fermented foods; nutrition and health benefits and use for meals
- sea vegetables; nutrition and health benefits and use for meals
- cacao; nutrition and health benefits and use for meals
- how to handle oils, which to use/not use and why
- how to handle sweeteners, which to use/not use and why
In this lesson you will learn:
- how to put together a whole-meal, plant-based breakfast, including preparation tips, time constraints and meal ideas
- how to put together a whole-meal, plant-based lunch or dinner, including preparation tips, time constraints and meal ideas
- how to put together a whole-meal, plant-based dessert, snack or treat, including preparation tips, time constraints and meal ideas
- tips and ideas for successful whole-food, plant-based eating given your personal lifestyle contraints
In this lesson you will learn what a typical day of eating a whole-food, plant-based diet can look like.
- Evita will use an example from her own life to demonstrate a whole-food, plant-based breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks.
- You will gain practical tips and ideas for how to structure and optimize your whole-food, plant-based meals.
In this lesson you will learn:
- how to handle whole-food, plant-based eating in restaurants
- how to handle whole-food, plant-based eating while traveling or on vacation
- how to handle whole-food, plant-based eating during holidays
- helpful tips and ideas for eating whole-food, plant-based beyond the home
This lesson explains the quality problems with bread and shares guidelines to help you choose a healthier bread option.
This lesson shares about the importance of eating organic foods and how to make it work with the help of the Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce.