What is Elemental Diet and Why Should Probably Switch To It?

By Admin | May 04, 2018

What is an Elemental Diet?

Elemental diet is simply “primary or basic” diet. The kind of diet that our bodies can easily process. It is a medically identified dietary strategy that uses very simple foods to provide essential nutrients, without adding a lot of stress to a person’s digestive system.

The elemental diet uses foods that are broken-down macronutrients — fats, carbohydrates, and proteins — these elements are predigested into their most basic elements. Elemental diet constitutes of all food, vitamin and minerals that are necessary for your bodily requirements. You can find elemental dietary supplements online and also get your meals prepared online.

What Are The Benefits of Elemental Diet?

The primary benefits of using anti-inflammatory diet are as follows

Supplying nutrition in the case of severe dietary restrictions
Reversing and Limiting intestinal losses due to inflammation
Providing higher nutritional content during “catabolic states” when demand increases
Improvement in the absorption of nutrients by the body
Reversing inadequate calorie intake (due to disease or anorexia)

In detail conditions Elemental Diet solve...

Leaky gut syndrome
Food allergies that cannot be controlled with other types of elimination diets
Inflammatory bowel disease, including Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis
Cystic fibrosis
Pancreatitis
Someone going through cancer treatment and recovery
Someone recovering from an eating disorder, such as anorexia.

A Nutritious Power Packed Elemental Meal.

Things you will need to make Elemental Diet Recipes.

2 Bunches Parsley, Stems Removed
Fresh Herbs, Such as Thyme or Tarragon, tied together with a string. (optional)
4 Cups Filtered Water
4 Medium Summer Squash (zucchini, yellow, or summer squash only)
1 lb String Beans, ends removed
2 Sticks Celery
Fresh Whey, Not Powdered! (optional)
1/2 Tablespoon Himalayan or Sea Salt

Pre Prep

Choose vegetables that are fibrous and healthy. For instance organic peeled carrots, celery, parsley, kale, chard, zucchini, green beans, bok choy, sui choy and broccoli. Chop them all. Avoid using starchy vegetables like butternut squash and potatoes as they will turn mushy and be very difficult to filter out of your broth. Fill 5 cups with chopped veggies. Get 6 cups of filtered or spring water, choose spices of your choice.

Here’s How to Make Your Elemental Vegetable Broth

1. Add spring or filtered water to your chopped veggies sprinkle 1/2 tablespoon. salt. Bring to a boil for 15 minutes, skim off any scum, lower heat and simmer, covered for 1 hour. Remove from heat and pour through a fine strainer into a large bowl.

2. Let the broth stay and cool, then divide up the liquid into individual servings and freeze it in zip-lock plastic bags.

3. Veggies taste really good on their own or mixed with Chicken or Beef broth.

4.When you’re ready to eat the soup, stir 1 tablespoon. of unrefined organic coconut oil, or organic butter to each serving of soup. Add sea salt to taste if needed.

5. The leftover vegetables can be used, if you wish, (although the nutrient level will be low) for other meals.

Thus, switching to the Elemental Diet helps in absorption of nutrients and provides higher nutritional content in catabolic states.