Do you have to shed a few pounds because of a beach vacation? Then clean eating could be just the thing for you. Find out more about the stars' nutritional concept.
Eat healthy and lose pounds in the process: This is how clean eating can be summarized in a nutshell. According to proponents, the form of nutrition should not be a diet, but a philosophy that helps lead to a healthier lifestyle. Clean eating is not waning as a nutrition trend and also has many prominent followers such as punk icon Nina Hagen, top model Miranda Kerr and actress Jessica Alba. Find out here how clean eating works and how experts rate the trend.
Clean Eating: Prefer natural foods, avoid fast food
Clean Eating means something like "clean nutrition" in German and that can be taken literally. Because the form of nutrition relies on unprocessed food without artificial additives. Natural, seasonal and regional products and ingredients are freshly prepared and ready meals and fast food are completely banned from the menu .
Clean eating is exactly what nutritionists and medical professionals preach: a diet that is based on natural foods and does not contain any preservatives, sweeteners, added sugar, colorings, flavorings or flavor enhancers. The rule of not skipping breakfast or combining complex carbohydrates from whole grain products or legumes with protein-containing ingredients at each meal corresponds to a balanced diet recommended by nutrition experts. One should only be careful with the wild promises that some advocates of the clean eating community make . This includes, for example, the statement that clean eating leads to clear skin, better concentration, or alleviates headaches and digestive problems. There is no scientific evidence for this, as the fitforfun portal reported.
What is certain, however, is that most people who change their diet according to the rules of clean eating also lose pounds . The reason for this is the largely renouncement of fast food, industrial sugar or saturated fatty acids.
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An overview of clean eating: what you should pay attention to
Clean eating is considered a healthy form of nutrition that can be recommended because it does not ban natural foods from the menu, prefers regional products and does not dogmatically forbid anything "unhealthy".
The most important rules of clean eating at a glance :
- Eat preferably fresh and regional foods - especially fruits and vegetables.
- Eat up to six (small) meals a day (if you are not hungry between the three main meals, however, you should avoid snacks).
- Combine complex carbohydrates and proteins, such as wholemeal bread with cheese, at every meal.
- Drink at least three liters of water every day.
- Make sure you consume enough healthy fats, for example in the form of vegetable oils.
- Don't skip breakfast.
- Avoid foods with additives and artificial sweeteners.
- Instead of soft drinks, choose unsweetened teas, mineral water, water or fruit spritzers
- Ready meals, junk food, light products as well as foods with white flour and sugar are avoided in clean eating.
- Alcohol and saturated fatty acids should also be avoided as far as possible.
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With cheating to a slim line?
What else there is to know about sugar and a low-sugar diet:
Grains instead of soft drinks: Sugar is essential for life - too much of it, however, can make you sick. But a healthy life is more than just “less sugar”. It also involves more exercise and plenty of drinking.
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