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Looking for the Best Fresh Low-Carb Foods? Here’s What to Choose
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Jun 25, 2025
Eating low-carb doesn’t mean giving up flavor or variety. With the right fresh foods, you’ll enjoy nutritious meals that support your health and keep carbs in check. We’ll break down the best fresh vegetables, fruits, proteins, and dairy options to help you stay on track. Want to go deeper? Read more here: https://reluctantlowcarblife.com/what-are-the-best-fresh-foods-for-a-low-carb-and-healthy-diet/ #ReluctantLowCarbLife #LowCarbFoods #HealthyEating #CleanEatingTips #FreshFoodGuide #LowCarbLifestyle #HealthyFoodChoices #KetoFriendlyEating
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hi this is Anita from Reluctant Low Carb
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Life if any of you have been listening
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to me you know that I'm a great advocate
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for eating fresh foods and you might ask
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well why why are you an advocate for
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eating fresh foods well first of all if
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you eat fresh foods chances are you're
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eating you know better and more low carb
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than you normally would if you are
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eating
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multi-processed foods
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let's talk about first of all what does
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fresh food mean fresh food you know
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isn't just about crisp lettuce or farmer
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market carrots it means foods that are
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unprocessed and as close to their
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natural state as possible foods that are
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free from artificial additives you can
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think about things as vegetables fruits
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whole grains nuts seeds and animal
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products that haven't been altered with
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chemicals or preservatives
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when food is fresh it retains its
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nutrients vitamins like vitamin C and B
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complexes you know sensitive to heat and
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storage so you know the minerals can
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degrade over time or you know or their
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nutrients have been taken out of them or
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they supposedly said they put some
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nutrients in but didn't really the
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longer food sits on a shelf or gets
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pushed through factory machinery the
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less nutritious it becomes it really is
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very scary to me that if somebody could
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have an ulti-processed food in their
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drawer and or in their pantry and a year
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later it's still considered to be good
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to use that that sort of scares me a bit
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if something is that allocessed is it
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really food one of the reasons why
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multi-processed is so eating food that
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is not multi-processed is so important
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is it helps with the digestive system
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that you know it helps to be able to
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digest things better your gut bacteria
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it also helps with your blood sugar
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fresh foods versus processed foods can
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you know help be able to stabilize your
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blood sugar better i eat a lot of
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multi-processed foods then suddenly my
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sweet tooth goes up really high and I
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want to eat stuff that's sweet and then
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of course I know that's not good for me
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but if I eat fresh food then I just I
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feel full longer i have higher satiety i
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just overall feel better there's a lot
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more nutrients in the fresh food
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themselves and you know and it's really
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like those um nutrients can be able to
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help you to you know just better process
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the foods throughout your entire body
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you know this is why we need to get back
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fresh foods and fresh foods don't have
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to be complicated but generally speaking
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yes if you are going to get to fresh
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foods you probably need to learn to cook
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not just open a package and heat
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something up that is not cooking you're
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gonna need to learn to chop vegetables
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you're gonna need learn to cook but the
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great thing about it is there's so much
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available today on YouTube and other
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places where you can really teach
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yourself to cook if you don't know how
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to cook they will teach you everything
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from how to boil egg to more complicated
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dishes i love going on YouTube and
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looking at recipes and what people are
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doing there you know you can do that too
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you can learn there's some of them that
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do it step by step where all you really
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have to do is just follow them and get
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the ingredients and just try it out and
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you need to also focus on your plate
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when you're looking at this too is you
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half the plate should be fresh
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vegetables one quarter should be protein
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one quarter should be grains and then
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you can have extras such as fats that is
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a very good plate to be able to have if
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you're thinking about what is your ideal
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plate that half your plate should be um
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vegetables that you should have onto
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your plate itself so that you're eating
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a lot of vegetables vegetables are
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extremely important as are eating some
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fresh fruits if you'd like to go learn
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more about this we have a um blog we've
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written on this called Why Fresh Food is
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a Foundation of Any Successful Diet and
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Health Plan we will put a link to that
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in the description below that you'll be
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able to check that out and if you have
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not yet we hope that you'll subscribe
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that you'll join with us and be part of
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our community we'd love to have you be
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on this journey with us as we looked at
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the trifecta of health which is eating
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fresh foods foods that help you feel
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full longer and fitness
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