Whole Foods is more than a Diet

If you were living in nature, the easier food to obtain daily without using a weapon is plant life.

Bears gather berries and nuts and insects and will snack on any meat that happens to run across its path or dies of natural causes. They are omnivores, after all. And so are humans

You can still be an omnivore on this diet. You were essentially born that way so why not embrace it for what it is?!

Vegetarians and vegans can live on this regimen also. Sustenance can be cherry-picked as per preferences or balances of meat to fruits and veggies or limited to vegetables, dairy and fruit, it is all up to you.

The only stipulation is that these foods be whole. This means non-processed. Very few foods that you consume are completely unprocessed, however, you can eliminate most processed foods found in any market or food store. By reading labels and avoiding those known to be highly processed; like candy, sugary foods, and processed meats in packaging containing preservatives or other additives.

Where to find the most nonprocessed foods is on the outer aisles of any supermarket. The produce, dairy, and meat sections mostly have nonprocessed items and are located like a circle around all the aisles containing highly processed foods like canned, dried, bottled, or boxed foodstuff in the middle aisles.

So what good does utilizing this nourishment style do? It does all the good any diet could ever hope to achieve without making a name for itself or someone trying to make the market work for them, rather than the public.

The Whole Foods Market has grown and spread across the nation but when I read the name I didn’t automatically think it was a brand name. That to me has a big appeal that this isn’t just another fly-by-night mom-and-pop store or a scheme of a large corporation to sell more and care less about quality. You don’t have that kind of scheme happening as far as I’ve seen. Growth shouldn’t be about how to scheme and plot to rip off the public but to provide a better product while still allowing the growth of a good company.

That aside, it is all-natural, or mostly natural. Cooking may be considered processing but doesn’t need to be eliminated from this nourishing regimen. And it is just your normal omnivore diet, not something special that someone invented or styled in a way impossible to attain on a daily life-long dietary regimen.

Some of the things it does for you are as follows —

Prevents chronic disease

Weight loss (normalization)

Immune defense strengthening

Chronic disease management

Improves GI function/health

This market started in 1980 and began expansion in 1984. The persons that started the first whole foods market ever was John Mackey and Renee Lawson Hardy. From a two person ownership to a second store in Houston, TX, then fast forward to 2017 when Amazon purchased this store chain.

The missions is simple. Better foods for better health on the planet we inhabit. Who doesn't want better health? Isn't is strange that since the early 1950s the markets have changed so much as to become unrecognizable from the earlier parts of the century and long before when we all farmed or produced our own food or slaughtered animals for meat in separate shops or down on the farm.

Supermarkets became the norm rather than the odd market strategy of open air markets of individual farmers. Rather than hunting and gathering like our forebears. We may yet have to go back to that someday but that's another article.

I remember the first multi-market stores. They were a little more mom and pop than they are now. We thought it was fabulous to be able to buy bread of more than one brand or two by the mid 1960s. The revolution in marketing hasn't stopped growing since then! Now the online presence is everything too.