Eat consciously and lose weight at the same time: slim with the clean eating trend

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 summed up 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 it 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 diet relies on unprocessed foods 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 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-rich ingredients at every meal corresponds to a balanced diet recommended by nutrition experts.

One should only be careful with the wild promises made by some advocates of the clean eating community

.

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 avoidance of fast food, industrial sugar or saturated fatty acids.

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Clean eating is considered a healthy form of nutrition

that can be recommended, as 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 in between).

• 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 and foods with white flour and sugar are avoided in clean eating.

• Alcohol and saturated fatty acids should also be avoided as far as possible.

Clean baking

goes one step further

: Here, the principles of

clean eating are

also implemented in baking.

This may sound exhausting at first, but it is not that difficult and you will not taste any difference to normal baking.

24garten.de * reports what you need to know and how to implement the clean baking nutrition trend.

Survey on the subject

Also read

: Researchers recommend: This diet should protect against disease and slow down global warming.

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With cheating to a slim line?

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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