Whole Foods

If Maslow made a hierarchy for Eating with Integrity, the base level would be all about WHOLE FOODS.

What do I mean by whole food? To borrow lightly from my professor, Cynthia Lair, a whole food is a food that has not been modified from its original form, a food that you can picture growing. An apple. Asparagus. Brown rice. Garbanzo beans.

These foods have INTEGRITY. They are still in their whole form. They are as God made them.

"And God said, 'See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food'" (Genesis 1:29).

Anytime a food is processed, nutrients are lost. This can be as simple as removing the skin from your potatoes (the majority of nutrients are found just underneath the skin!), or as complicated as the chemical process of transforming whole corn into high fructose corn syrup.

The more whole foods you can consume each day, the more vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients you are providing your body. The American Dietetic Association recommends 5-a-day. For a more personalized recommendation, visit this website.