Eat Real Food takes you on a journey of creating a solid foundation for life to know what plant foods to eat and why.
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 foods
How different plant foods satisfy and benefit your nutritional needs
How to approach creating quick and easy, wholesome, plant-based meals
How to deal with concern foods like wheat, soy, oils, and sweeteners
How to eat in the best way possible beyond your home and kitchen
How to make the Whole Food, Plant-Based lifestyle successful and enjoyable
Eat 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.
This test will help you practice what you have learned in section 1 of the course.
In this lesson you will learn:
This lesson will provide you with an overview of the course mission, structure, and content.
This lesson will help you establish your commitment and accountability so that you can be successful with this course. It will take you through a guided reflection exercise and explain the three-step process for making effective life changes.
This lesson will provide an overview and explanation of what plant-based eating means and the differences between different types of plant-based diets.
This lesson will explain the difference between a holistic approach to health and nutrition and a reductionist approach, and teach you why this course takes the holistic approach to be of most benefit to your health.
This quiz will help you practice what you have learned in the first set of introductory lessons.
This lesson will help you understand one of the biggest reasons why it is hard for most people to change their diets and provide you with some tips to overcome this challenge.
This lesson will explain why whole plant foods are the best choices for our health when it comes to healing and protecting us from acute and chronic diseases.
This lesson will present several other benefits of whole food, plant-based eating, beyond the many health benefits.
This lesson will help you further understand what to expect from the course, including the course language options, geographical suitability, and WFPB availability so that you can get the most benefit and value from it.
This lesson will share all the ways that you can benefit from the course beyond just the video lessons, how you can get the right help and support if you need it, and how you can share feedback.
In this lesson you will learn:
the nutrition properties of vegetables
vegetable varieties and how to work with them
optimal cooking/preparation of vegetables
vegetable meal ideas
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This quiz will help you practice what you learned in lessons 10 through 14.
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In this lesson, you will learn about the health and nutrition benefits and meal uses of several specialty foods, which include:
mushrooms
fermented foods
vinegar
mustard
sea vegetables
cacao
You will also learn how to handle processed foods like oils and sweeteners, and why they are not part of a true WFPB diet.
This test will help you practice what you learned in the lessons in section 2.
In this lesson you will learn:
how to put together a WFPB breakfast
how to put together a WFPB lunch or dinner
how to put together a WFPB snack or treat
tips and ideas for successful WFPB eating and meal ideas to suit your lifestyle and time constraints
In this lesson you will learn what a typical day of eating a whole-food, plant-based diet can look like.
In this lesson you will learn:
how to handle WFPB eating in restaurants
how to handle WFPB eating while traveling or on vacation
how to handle WFPB eating during holidays
helpful tips and ideas for eating WFPB beyond the home
In this lesson you will receive 10 concluding tips for optimizing your whole-food, plant-based lifestyle, as well as ideas for further resources and support.
This quiz will help you apply what you learned in lessons 11 through 14.
This lesson shares 5 meal templates that you can use as your breakfast, lunch or dinner meals for an unlimited potential of quick, easy, diverse and healthy meals.
This lesson teaches you how to navigate the grocery store in order to make the best food choices.
This lesson teaches you how to read and understand nutrition facts labels to make the best, real food choices.
This lesson explains how to build an optimally healthy meal plate as part of a whole-food, plant-based diet.
This lesson shares about protein, its quality, and how much protein different plant foods have.
This lesson explains how to understand different carbohydrates and reduce unhealthy foods that provide non-whole, refined carbohydrates.
This lesson explains how to use healthy fat guidelines, as they relate to saturated and unsaturated fats.
This lesson shares the top 10 most important nutrition tips for vegans to take into consideration, for best health, weight, energy and vitality.
This lesson explains the benefits of batch cooking to reduce your meal preparation time and shares tips for how to do it.
This lesson shares about the benefits of being properly prepared by packing your lunch and some tips for healthy homemade meals beyond the home.
This lesson explains the quality problems with bread and shares guidelines to help you choose a healthier bread option.
This lesson shares about the importance of eating organic foods and how to make it work with the help of the Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce.
This lesson provides guidance and tips to avoid genetically modified foods for best health and wellbeing.
This lesson provides an overview of vitamin B12 and the vitamin D hormone, which need special attention in a plant-based diet, and it provides guidance about using food instead of supplements for your nutritional needs.
This lesson explains the basics of food combining and how to use these guidelines for best health, energy, weight and digestion.
This lesson shares 10 examples of some of the worst food combinations, which can prevent optimal health, weight and energy, and create or further aggravate food sensitivities and weak digestion.
This lesson explains how different macronutrients impact our blood glucose levels and risk of diabetes, and provides guidance on how to maintain and support healthy blood sugar levels.
This lesson shares tips to help you break bad eating habits and create good ones.
This lesson shares tips to help you choose healthier fast food meal options.
This lesson explains what is mindful eating and its benefits for our health, weight and wellbeing.
This lesson provides guidance on how to have and maintain a healthy body, and the motivation for healthy lifestyle habits.
This quick tip lesson includes a concluding course message.
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