How to eat healthily

How to eat healthily

All doctors and nutritionists agree today on the need to eat healthily, which can be summed up as follows: fewer refined products, fewer processed products, less sugar, less salt, less bad fat, not to forget fewer ready-made meals and pesticides in our food.

In other words, "eating healthily" means choosing the "right food" for your meals.

But don't forget that eating healthily also means:

• Eat your meal properly - take your time to chew, to aid good digestion and for better absorption of the food. 15 to 20 minutes after beginning the meal, chewing brings about the secretion of a neurotransmitter that signals the brain to stop eating. This signal of repletion is disrupted by fatty and sweet foods, as tasty as they may be
  

  

• Relearn the real taste of food. Our sense of taste is frequently clouded by all the additives, flavour enhancers, artificial flavourings, emulsifiers... making all food taste the same. Rediscover different regional and seasonal products, which will also help you to eat healthily
• Cook for yourself as often as possible. Cooking encourages you to take care of yourself and of others, to enter into contact with the food, to transform it…
• Share. There's nothing like a meal taken amidst a nice, friendly atmosphere

Eating healthily: a few daily habits

• Eat a richer meal in the morning rather than the evening. Remember the saying "Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dine like a pauper".
• Chew your food slowly. Avoid digestion problems, appreciate the flavours and get the repletion signals going.
• Eat fresh products as much as possible. Say yes to local and seasonal products; transport, storage, preservation… all reduce food quality. A new way of doing your shopping, new self-organisation… for your own well-being.
• Favour raw fruit between meals. Taken during meals they slow down the digestive process. A good time would be 10.00 to 11.00 and 17.00 to 18.00.
• Eat raw products at the beginning of the meal. They trigger beneficial digestive enzymes.

In practice

Breakfast rich in proteins
Top-quality tea, chicory or infusion, plus one from:

• 2 soft-boiled eggs
• wholegrain rice with currants + seasonal fruit
• 1 ERGYNUTRIL or VÉGÉNUTRIL preparation + 1 seasonal fruit at 10.00
• ½ soy yoghurt + 2 teaspoons of freshly rolled oats flour + currants + organic pumpkin seeds + seasonal fruit

Lunch
Seasonal raw vegetables (dressing: virgin first cold-press oil + cider vinegar)
Steamed vegetables (organic or home-grown vegetables, preferably seasonal produce).
One protein of your choice (see below)

Tea
In general only for children and adolescents:
Fresh or dried fruit, organic wholemeal or semi-wholemeal cereal, oil seeds.

Dinner
Light meal, taken early, no meat to reduce breaking down and sleeping problems.
Favour oily fish and vegetable protein.
Depending on your appetite and the season: raw vegetables + pulses + cereals or vegetable soup with cereals, or mixed salad.

If you want a sweet after the meal, try cooked fruit, infusion, plant milk-based cream, homemade fruit tart...

Nutritional advice

To be favoured

• Virgin first  cold-press oils; alternate olive oil and sunflower, rapeseed, sesame and grapeseed oil.
• Healthy and natural seasonal products, preferably local and organic, home-cooked meals

  

• Integral sugar, honey, pollen, raisins. Alternatives: rice pudding (soya, oats), fruit, dried fruit (autumn and winter), baked apples, small amounts of organic chocolate, seed oils (almonds, walnuts, hazelnuts)
• Fruit or fresh fruit juice (vitamins and fibre)
• Hot drinks (chicory, cereal-based coffee substitutes, green tea, infusions)
• 1 glass of good wine at mealtimes notably provides antioxidants (resveratrol, tannins)
• Wholegrain or semi-wholegrain flour and cereals, wholemeal bread
• Sea salt, algae
• Plant milk (soya, rice, oats), limited amounts of goat's or ewe's cheese
• 1 to 1.5 litres of water each day between meals (infusion, green, tea)

Restricted amount

• Refined oils or simply "cold-press" (use of extraction solvents plus refining)
• Prepared meals (degraded via the process), tinned food, food rich in additives or colourings.
• Refined white sugar, jams, sweets, cakes, chocolate
• Commercial fruit juice (acidifiers and sugars, preservatives)

  

• Stimulants: coffee, tea (tire the body in the long term)
• Consumption of alcohol, especially aperitifs and liqueurs
• White flour, white bread
• Refined salt
• Cow's milk and associated dairy products: yoghurt, butter, desserts, ice cream
• Water during the meal