For anyone looking to live a healthier lifestyle, eating a more natural diet is a great place to start. After all, you are what you eat!

Eating a healthier and more natural diet needn’t be daunting either. There are many simple and easy ways in which you can introduce more natural foods into your daily diet and feel healthier and more full of life in no time.

One of the easier ways to get more natural foods into your diet is to make complex carbohydrates the main, staple part of your meals. Foods high in complex carbohydrates include wholemeal bread, wholemeal rice, wholemeal pasta, oats and wheat germ, and they all have the same thing in common; they will keep you going for longer as they are full of long-lasting energy.

Because foods high in complex carbohydrates keep you feeling fuller for longer and provide long-term energy, they have two main benefits: you will be able to be more active, and you are much less likely to reach for fatty or sugary snacks in-between meals. So the knock-on health benefits are obvious.

Introducing more natural foods containing complex carbohydrates into your diet shouldn’t be too difficult. It can simply be a case of replacing white pasta and rice with wholemeal versions when you cook your main meals, and choosing wholemeal or wheat germ bread instead of white for your sandwiches or toast in the morning.

As well as introducing more complex carbohydrates into your diet, you can up your intake of natural foods by ensuing that you get your five portions of fruit and vegetables a day. One of these portions can be a fruit smoothie, and one can be dried fruit. Tinned fruit and vegetables also count, but try and get as much fresh fruit and veg in there as possible.

Full grain, multigrain, whole grain, crushed wheat, full rye – just what do all these terms mean? In this article, we would like to give you an easy to understand guide, looking at what it is and what the health benefits of whole grains are for your body.

A grain kernel has three parts: a central “germ, ” surrounded by starchy “endosperm” and bran, which forms the outer layer. To effectively metabolize and digest grain fully, it is necessary for us to consume all three parts of the kernel. Millers provide food producers with refined white flour, having stripped it from almost all nutrition, for no reason other than consumers who want blemish free food. Simply put the difference between refined and unrefined (whole grain) grain is that the germ and bran have been removed to produce the latter.
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