Principles of implementation a healthy plant-based diet

There are no universal methods or rules telling us what food would be ideal for us. Your healthy diet will depend on your individual experience, potential and personal health problems.

You have to determine all the details of your healthy diet yourself. But there are certain principles that you need to follow.

First you need to understand what kind of food is considered to be healthy.

It’s a food that:

• satisfies the body’s need for essential nutrients - proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins and micro and macro elements;
• provides conditions when cleansing processes of the body prevail over the processes of pollution.

It’s very important to know that if you strictly follow only one point, then your diet isn’t healthy. It’s vital to fulfill both principles.

Of course, it’s difficult to establish your healthy diet in one day.

The main task at the initial stage will be to maximize cleansing processes in organism. The body have to remove not only everyday incoming toxins, but also accumulated earlier. It’s a great body burden. That’s why strengthening of cleansing processes should occur gradually. You need to monitor your health and well-being.

In order to change the diet as harmoniously as possible, follow these 4 rules:

       1. Solve the issue of excess nutrition, not lack of it.

Despite the fact that it is necessary to remove all harmful products from your menu, you shouldn’t start with this. The first step is to add to your diet those foods that we consider natural and healthy.

If you stop eating meat and fish one day, you will deprive yourself of the nutrients that the body is accustomed to receive. At the moment this food is a source of essential substances. The body is not able to take nutrients fully from the remaining food.

The best way in this situation is to reduce the amount of harmful products and began to eat more fruit. But if to speak about products with chemical ingredients, we must abandon them immediately.

    2. Listen to your body and enjoy your meal.

Food should bring joy. But everytime after eating this or that product we must listen to the processes that occur in our body. In most cases we don’t eat because of hunger. Sometimes we eat because we want to receive pleasant emotions, eating in the company is another reason and so on. 

 Our task is to correct this situation.Take food only if you are really hungry. Very often the body at such moments doesn’t need nutrients, but emotions. If a person doesn’t feel joy while eating, then he doesn’t need it.

       3. Move from more harmful food to less harmful.

If the body really wants something unhealthy, try to choose less harmful.

Consider the following information:

• plant food is heathier than animal food,
• meat and eggs are more harmful than fish and seafood,
• dairy products are healthier than meat, but more harmful than plant food,
• heat-treated plant food is more harmful than raw one.

       4. Carefully monitor the work of excretory systems.

In this principle the word "must" appears.

How can we help the body cleanse more effectively? We must eat a large number of vegetables everyday. Our body needs raw vegetables to ensure good digestion. A  big amount of fiber cleanses our body better and faster from different contaminants. We must eat vegetables not for nutrition, but for purification.

You can eat vegetables in salads or separately, you can mix them with cold pressed oils, which also have cleansing properties.

These 4 rules will help you to understand what to eat and how to eat in order to follow eventually a diet, when the processes of purification of the body will prevail over the processes of contamination.

I told you about this principles according the studies of naturopath Mikhail Sovetov. More about him and his studies you can read here.