Natural Foods Diet

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The Natural Foods Diet is the avoidance of all unnatural and refined/processed ingredients. These ingredients include refined sugars, refined flours, milled grains, hydrogenated oils, artificial sweeteners, artificial food colors, artificial flavorings, and other similar ingredients. Unlike most other popular weight-loss programs, there is no counting required for practitioners of the Natural Foods Diet.

Note that Sucanat, Stevia, raw honey, and maple syrup are allowed for practitioners as sweeteners as they are non-processed and all natural. Sea salt is also preferred over table salt.

Proponents of the natural foods diet argue that unnatural ingredients promote obesity, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, and mood problems.

Proponents of natural food diets also claim that "the refined, degerminated, demineralized and devitalized foods are a curse to us all. When the miller makes white flour, he takes out the vital portion, or the part that makes a new plant-the wheat germ, and also the bran. It is the part that contains the minerals and vitamins which supply our bodies with blood-making material. A lot of the foods that we eat on a daily basis have been treated in the same manner."^{[citation needed]}

Proponents also argue that canning, cooking and baking are modern constructs that at some prior time were unnecessary, wherein human diets varied with the food products that could be acquired by the season.^{[citation needed]}

Natural foods diet practitioners also advocate the ingestion of juices.^{[citation needed]}