If you are a vegetarian, you might be looking for a way to eat healthier, but also avoid meat and possibly dairy products as well. Luckily, a clean eating diet is one of the easiest to follow and still maintain a meatless lifestyle. Here are some tips for eating clean as a vegetarian.

Add Plenty of Healthy Fats

As you know from your current vegetarian lifestyle, you need to make sure you get protein and fat from food sources not related to meat and seafood. Luckily, there are still lots of healthy fats that provide good nutrients without anything that isn’t allowed on the clean eating diet. Keep eating plenty of healthy fats like nuts and seeds, flaxseed, avocadoes, olive oil, and canola oil. These oils are better to use instead of butter. Even if you allow yourself dairy on your vegetarian diet, you should avoid dairy on a clean eating diet unless it is from grass-fed cows. Continue reading →

Chronic illnesses, including obesity is a plague that’s taken over the western world. Nutritional studies of the western population indicate that people are eating too many foods that are filled with absolutely no nutritional value, but lots of sugars, carbohydrates and highly processed chemicals. Continue reading →

Recent studies show that avoiding certain foods may be helpful in preventing or at least keeping Alzheimer’s disease at bay. Clean eating focuses on eliminating foods such as processed and foods with unhealthy fats, sugars and carbohydrates. Over time, eating unhealthy foods can cause an inflammatory environment in your body which can eventually lead to devastating diseases such as Alzheimer’s. Continue reading →