The Whole-30 Diet has been super popular since it came out in 2009, and especially during New Year’s as many people make it their New Year’s Resolution to kick the year off with a Whole-30 Diet. However, there are also people who strive to follow this diet throughout the year. Let’s take a look at some of the benefits of this diet so you can better understand why someone would be interested in this way of eating.

What is The Whole-30 Diet?

The Whole-30 Diet is often described as a life-changing diet that removes sugar, grains, dairy, as well as legumes from the diet. It’s about eliminating the foods that are known to damage the gut, cause inflammation, and cause an imbalance in blood sugar levels. The Whole-30 Diet helps your body recover from the inflammation that may be going on, while also helping you build new habits with healthier foods that will support overall wellness.

As a quick breakdown, here are the foods that you cannot consume while following the Whole-30 Diet:

• Sugar
• Added sugar or natural sugar (except fruit juice)
• Alcohol
• Tobacco
• Grains
• Legumes (except green beans, sugar snap peas, snow peas)
• Dairy (except ghee or clarified butter)
• Carrageenan
• MSG
• Sulfites
• Baked goods
• Junk food

The Benefits of a Whole-30 Diet 

The Whole-30 Diet has so many different benefits, like we talked about, reducing inflammation, balancing blood sugar, and healing the gut are at the core of the program, but there are some other benefits as well.

#1 Learn How Certain Foods Affect Your Body: The Whole-30 Diet will help you better understand how certain damaging foods have been negatively affecting your life, as well as your health.

#2 Change Your Taste: When you eliminate toxic foods from your diet, and focus on whole and nourishing foods, your taste buds are sure to change. This can be life-changing, because not only will it help you change the way you feel about certain food, but it can help change the way you incorporate certain foods into your day to day life.

#3 Support Your Body: By the end of the 30 days, you will have completely eliminated the foods that have potentially been holding you back from being the healthiest and best you, and have likely established much healthier habits surrounding food. Now that your body has started the healing process, you will have all the tools you need to keep up your new healthy eating habits, and start being the healthiest you yet!

To read more about getting started on the Whole-30 Diet, click HERE.