Eat Real Food: How To Eat A Whole Food, Plant-Based Diet

Learn how to be a healthy vegan or vegetarian in a holistic way for best health, weight, and wellbeing.

What you'll learn
What foods are included as part of whole food, plant-based eating, and why.
What foods are excluded as part of whole food, plant-based eating, and why.
Why whole plant foods provide the most health, healing, and protection benefits.
How a holistic nutrition approach differs from a reductionist nutrition approach.
Nutrition characteristics of all the different whole plant food groups to know how to use them to benefit your health and weight.
How to make healthy plant-based eating quick, easy, and simple with access to dozens of WFPB recipes.
How to do grocery shopping for whole plant foods and the best ways to eat them.
How to eat whole food, plant-based outside of the home, when in restaurants or while traveling.
How to use your diet to improve your health, weight, energy, and longevity.
How to create a life-long foundation of healthy eating habits.
Requirements
Access to a high-speed internet to enjoy the class videos in the best quality.
Access to a variety of fresh, wholesome, plant foods.
Access to a kitchen to make some of the recipes and/or meal ideas referenced in the course.
Description
Eat Real Food takes you on a journey of creating a solid foundation for life to know what plant foods to eat and why.What you choose to put on your plate and into your body each day plays one of the most important roles in creating your health, weight, energy, and wellbeing. Not only that, but today, what you choose to eat has a direct impact on our healthcare, environment, and entire society. We cast our vote most effectively for the kind of world we want to have by what we spend our money on and what we choose to eat. When you make the choice to eat whole plant foods, you are making the choice to not only help yourself, but help other humans, animals, and our entire Earth.Eat Real Food is not a diet or a quick-fix, but a lifestyle and its success depends on a change in your perspective and habits. Whether you are interested in reducing animal products, like meat, eggs, and dairy, or removing them completely from your diet, or looking to adopt a healthy vegan diet, this course will educate, inspire, and empower you to know how to eat right with confidence.You will gain skills to know:What foods make up a Whole Food, Plant-Based lifestyle diet How to do groceries for wholesome plant foodsHow different plant foods satisfy and benefit your nutritional needsHow to approach creating quick and easy, wholesome, plant-based meals How to deal with concern foods like wheat, soy, oils, and sweetenersHow to eat in the best way possible beyond your home and kitchenHow to make the Whole Food, Plant-Based lifestyle successful and enjoyableEat Real Food liberates you from counting calories and obsessing about isolated nutrients; it teaches you to eat based on the intelligent design of whole plant foods!This course teaches nutrition from a holistic perspective that focuses on the whole big picture, and NOT a narrow reductionist perspective that counts calories and isolated nutrients. You will learn how to focus on eating the right foods, instead of being distracted by trying to get individual nutrients. The course provides 4 sections with over 4 hours of video content, as follows: Section 1 - Introduction provides the basics of Whole Food, Plant-Based eating.Section 2 - Foundation presents what whole plant foods to eat and why, and tips for incorporating them into your diet. Section 3 - Application includes a practical summary of how you can approach Whole Food, Plant-Based eating in everyday life.Section 4 - Quick Tips answers common questions about plant-based nutrition offers numerous tips to help you succeed and strengthen your understanding.The course provides downloadable summary, activity, and handout sheets for most of the lessons, as well as numerous links to other helpful web resources, like educational articles and over 60 recipes and meal ideas. NOTE: The "Eat Real Food" course does NOT focus on teaching plant-based cooking. If this is what you are looking for, then please refer to my course "Cook Real Food" here on Udemy. To best satisfy your expectations, please scan through the course curriculum to orient yourself with the topics covered and watch the free video lectures to determine if this is the right course for your current needs.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Course Introduction

Lecture 2 How to Prepare for Success

Lecture 3 What is Plant-Based Eating

Lecture 4 What is Holistic Nutrition

Lecture 5 Make Dietary Changes to Thrive

Lecture 6 Health Benefits of a WFPB Diet

Lecture 7 Other Benefits of a WFPB Diet

Lecture 8 How to Align Your Expectations

Lecture 9 How to Get Help and Support

Section 2: Foundation

Lecture 10 How to Stock Your Kitchen and Pantry for WFPB Eating

Lecture 11 Vegetables: Nutrition and Uses in the WFPB Diet

Lecture 12 Fruits: Nutrition and Uses in the WFPB Diet

Lecture 13 Beans: Nutrition and Uses in the WFPB Diet

Lecture 14 Grains: Nutrition and Uses in the WFPB Diet

Lecture 15 Nuts: Nutrition and Uses in the WFPB Diet

Lecture 16 Seeds: Nutrition and Uses in the WFPB Diet

Lecture 17 Herbs & Spices: Nutrition and Uses in the WFPB Diet

Lecture 18 Other Specialty Foods in the WFPB Diet

Section 3: Application

Lecture 19 WFPB Meal & Snack Ideas

Lecture 20 WFPB Typical Day

Lecture 21 WFPB Beyond the Home - Restaurants, Travel, and Holidays

Lecture 22 Next Steps and Final Tips for WFPB Eating

Section 4: Quick Tips

Lecture 23 Whole-Food, Plant-Based Meal Templates For Easy Eating

Lecture 24 How to do Groceries for Real Food Options

Lecture 25 How to Read a Nutrition Facts Label

Lecture 26 How to Build a Real Food Meal Plate

Lecture 27 How to Eat Enough Protein

Lecture 28 How to Eat the Right Carbohydrates

Lecture 29 How to Eat the Right Fat

Lecture 30 How to Be a Healthy Vegan

Lecture 31 How to do Batch Cooking for Quick Real Food Meal Prep

Lecture 32 How to Pack a Lunch for Healthy Eating

Lecture 33 How to Pick a Healthy Bread

Lecture 34 How to Eat Organic

Lecture 35 How to Avoid Eating GMOs

Lecture 36 How to Approach Supplements

Lecture 37 How to Use Food Combining Guidelines

Lecture 38 How to Avoid the Worst Food Combinations

Lecture 39 How to Support Healthy Blood Sugar Levels

Lecture 40 How to Break Unhealthy Eating Habits

Lecture 41 How to Make Healthier Fast Food Choices

Lecture 42 How to Benefit from Mindful Eating

Lecture 43 How to Stay Healthy and Motivated

Lecture 44 Concluding Message

This course is for anyone who is interested in improving their health, weight, or energy via a holistic, whole-food, plant-based approach.,This course is best for beginners who would like to learn about or are just getting started with plant-based eating.,This course is also suitable for those who are already familiar with plant-based eating, and are looking to further enrich their skills or gain new tips, confirmation, and inspiration.,This course is NOT for people who are interested in consuming animal foods (meat, eggs, dairy) or processed foods.,This course is NOT for people who want a reductionist approach to nutrition based on individual nutrients or numbers.,This is NOT a cooking course, but a holistic nutrition course. Please see the "Cook Real Food" course if you want to learn how to cook whole plant foods.,This is a general guidance course for everyday needs; it is NOT meant to serve clinical or specific medical needs.