As refined and fast foods flood our markets, television screens and bodies, the natural, the raw and the fibre seem to have disappeared.  Fast foods have more disadvantages than advantages .Most parents complain that their children don’t eat fruits, salads or vegetables. The question is, do we eat them? Are they a part of our homes, diets or dining tables?

Trouble is that the answer to all these is ‘No’. Everyone’s buying and consuming what’s convenient, fast and tasty. It sure is easier to eat a chocolate or desert after dinner than wash and cut an apple or fruit. At the end of a long working day, there’s just no time or inclination to prepare a salad. Making rice or pasta or just ordering a pizza, is anyday easier than slogging out in a kitchen to make atta rotis.
But then, man was meant to eat both cooked and raw food, whole fruits and salads, and natural foods like grains of wheat, ragi, jowar, bajra, corn, oats and whole beans like channa , rajma, moong, mote, lobia, etc. These raw fruits and vegetables and unrefined grains and beans are packed with vitamins and minerals that help us keep well and fit and boost immunity. Also, the common question of  ‘how o lose weight with natural diet’ can be well found here.

Adults and children who follow a healthy diet regularly tend to fall ill less often. Moreover, the extra vitamins and minerals help the body processes to function more efficiently and smoothly giving a feeling of wellness, high energy levels and fitness that no tonic or pill can supply. Fuits and vegetables are also a great source of natural fibre that help prevent obesity and several related lifestyle diseases. Fibrous food also prevent constipation and acidity.

How does the fibre work? Fruits, salads, rotis and beans help fill us up and are low on calories and fat. For example, eat an apple at 11am instead of a cookie. Have a fruit after dinner rather than a scoop of icecream. Eating a salad with both lunch and dinner helps cut down on overeating rice or sabji during the meal. Two phulkas in a meal are more healthy and filling than a cup of polished rice.

Every time fibrous food is consumed, the body has to work harder to digest it. If you take two slices of white bread and two slices of whole wheat bread or two idlis and two phulkas, they are over 50 calories each. So what’s the difference? The difference is that when you have to digest the whole wheat bread or the phulkas your body will have to work harder, so it will burn some stored fat, break down some cholesterol in your blood or use up some extra glucose, lowering your blood sugar levels.

When you eat a salad with your meal, you chew longer and your stomach will be busy breaking down those raw vegetables for the next 2 hours. If you extract a juice from an apple your body has hardly any work to do to digest it. But if you eat the apple you are chewing for 10 minutes and then the body has to cut through the skin, get into the pulp, pull out the juice and break down the sugar. Internal exercise and work is going on. You feel full, fresh and you get thinner, lighter and healthier in the bargain.

I hope this article has given quite an information as to why we need to follow a natural diet. Your feedback and comments on this are welcome