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Healthy eating means using fresh ingredients and gentle cooking with no artificial ingredients and fats. Healthy eating requires a lot of cooking, since take-out food often contains too many refined fats and artificial seasonings. However, modern equipment, you will discover that cooking is no longer annoying sick reserved for special occasions, but the exciting part of everyday life.

So what products to buy, when they decided to start eating healthy food? Here’s what the weekly shopping list should contain.

Vegetables. All vegetables should be eaten young, when they are tender and not coarse. Vegetables are best bought from fresh food markets or seasonal, when they are sold in boxes or baskets.Supermarket vegetables are often genetically modified or have been picked green and ripened in boxes when traveling long distances. Colorful vegetables and sprouts contain the most vitamins and antioxidants.

Fruits. Again, the trick is to buy seasonal fruit, since exotic fruits often traveled long distances and ripened in their boxes, not on trees. Local, naturally ripened or, better yet, organic fruit is the best choice for health-conscious cook.

Herbs. aromatic herbs and spices can be used fresh or dried. It is best to plant the aromatic herbs in pots on the window and use them fresh whenever you need them. To preserve flavor, you can buy all the spices and use them freshly ground.

Cheese. Although cheese is quite rich in fats, cheese is an excellent source of vitamins and minerals. Buy only fresh cheeses in small quantities and try to eat them at once, since gourmet cheeses do not have a long life.

Eggs. Buy only organic or eggs, and shake them before buying to ensure freshness.

Fish and shellfish. The best way to buy fresh fish and frozen. Again, the majority of fish in supermarkets comes from fish farms, where it is fed with artificial substances, and the fish can not be used in healthy recipes. Pink salmon and other popular species of fish most likely came from fish farms. Shellfish is a more healthy choice, since shrimp, for example, does not live in a chemically polluted water. When you boil mussels, discard those that do not open.

Meat. For the purposes of healthy food really is better to move the meat in its entirety, because it is almost impossible to find meat that comes from environmentally and health conscious farmers.Most of the meat in supermarkets has enormous quantities of growth hormones and antibiotics. The best meat for use in healthy rules come from small farming communities and organic farms.

Grains. Whole wheat and whole grains should become the cornerstone to a healthy eating routine, because many healthy ingredients contained in the shell of the grain. Rice is the only exclusion from the rule because, even though the rice grain shell is removed, many of the nutrients remain in the grain of rice.