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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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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 ultroessed 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 by
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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 food and fresh foods don't have to
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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 to learn to cook but
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the great thing about it is there's so
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much available today on YouTube and
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other 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 could do that
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too you can learn there's some of them
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that do it step by step where all you
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really have to do is just follow them
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and get the ingredients and just try it
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out 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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know 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 be able to
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learn more about this we have a um blog
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we've written on this called Why Fresh
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Food is a Foundation of Any Successful
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Diet and Health Plan we will put a link
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to that in the description below that
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you'll be able to check that out and if
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you have not yet we hope that you'll
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subscribe that you'll join with us and
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be part of our community we'd love to
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have you be on this journey with us as
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we looked at the trifecta of health
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which is eating fresh foods foods that
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help you feel full longer and fitness
