I found from Readers that losing weight doesn’t have to come from
being on an onerous diet, where you look at your food intake
through a special, and short-term, lens. Rather, they easily lost
weight just by following the healthy lifestyle principles of eating a
cornucopia of the World’s Healthiest Foods and preparing them
using the Healthiest Way of Cooking Methods that enhance their
flavor while preserving nutrients. This is not a diet; it’s a delicious
way of losing weight and at the same time enjoying your food.
This is what our Readers discovered; and I want to congratulate
them in identifying a weight loss approach—one that emphasized
the World’s Healthiest Foods—that will help many others that
struggle with the epidemic problem of weight gain. To continue our
shared learning in this area of health promotion, I would like to
encourage you to send us your weight loss stories; we will post them
to our website, WHFoods.org, so that everyone can benefit.
What is the Secret of Healthy Weight Loss?
So, by now you must be wondering, “What is it about the World’s
Healthiest Foods that made them so effective in producing healthy
lasting weight loss, vibrant health, and energy for the Readers who
shared their success stories?”
It’s simple, actually. The World’s Healthiest Foods are nutrient-rich
foods. I believe that this is the secret of why the Readers were losing
weight –the wide range and quantity of nutrients these foods deliver
for the small amount of calories that they contain (what I refer to as
“nutrient-richness”).
Nutrient-Rich World’s Healthiest Foods = Maximum Nutrients
Minimal Calories
The classification of a food as nutrient-rich reflects its ability to
provide a wealth of nutrients (vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients,
antioxidants, fiber, protein, omega-3 fatty acids, and other health-
Healthy Weight Loss Stories