Nutrient Dense Foods

 Be healthy and beautiful by adding nutrition dense foods to your diet.

Food is fuel. You need to eat the right food to fuel and energize your body throughout the day and through your workouts. Think of your body like a high performance race car. Always use the highest octane fuel in order to get the best results.

These days many people try to avoid those low-nutrition or empty-calorie food products when attempting to lose weight. However, dieters could do with searching out foods that are nutrient-dense. Generally these are the natural produce packed with vital nutrients yet they hold less energy content.

Nutrient dense foods

Nutrient-dense foods are low in calories but contain high levels of “micronutrients” – vitamins, minerals, trace elements, antioxidants, phytochemicals, enzymes. Nutrient dense foods give you the most nutrients for the fewest amount of calories. In other words, nutrient dense foods give you the "biggest bang for the buck." You get lots of nutrients, and it doesn't cost you much in terms of calories. No foods are more nutrient dense than whole, organically-grown foods. The reason is simple: nothing is contained in a fresh, whole organic food that doesn't need to be there.

List of Some Nutrient Dense Foods:

• Dark leafy greens
• Animal products such as eggs, offal (like chicken livers), meats and fish (preferably free range, wild and organic)
• Edible wild weeds and herbs
• Sprouts and shoots, from nuts, seeds, beans and grains
• Raw, soaked nuts and seeds
• Fermented foods — such as sauerkraut and yoghurt
• Fresh vegetable juices — especially with greens
• Super-foods — nutrient-packed, convenient whole foods, such as spirulina, bee pollen, barley grass
• Sea vegetables

Why nutrient-rich foods?

The Nutrient Rich Foods approach provides a positive way to help people evaluate food and beverage choices for better nutrition and enjoy a healthy lifestyle. Besides this with overweight and obesity rates continuing to rise most people need to monitor and reduce their caloric intake. Choosing nutrient-rich foods first is a way for people to make better choices within their daily eating plan.

Here is an article about nutrition and weight loss- Nutrient Dense Foods For Weight Loss