Ben GreenfieldFounder, Ben Greenfield Life

12 Secrets To A Healthier Life

6 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment of his "12 Secrets To A Healthier Life" video, Ben Greenfield emphasizes the importance of auditing your kitchen to remove packaged and ultra‑processed foods. He recommends shopping around the perimeter of grocery stores where whole foods—fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, dairy—are located, and avoiding the inner aisles that house processed items. Greenfield advocates a simple, clean, earth‑close eating approach, stating that you don’t need to follow trendy diets. He also suggests supplementing this foundation with practices such as intermittent fasting, expressing gratitude for meals, and mindful eating—paying attention to what, how fast, and how you eat.

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You should definitely audit your kitchen, your refrigerator, to limit as many packaged foods as possible. When you open your refrigerator or walk into your pantry, you should recognize a lot of the same things that your great-grandparents would have used as food. Uh, when you're shopping at the grocery store, you can shop around the perimeter of the grocery store where there are a lot of the real foods like fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, dairy, et cetera. Whereas when you duck down the aisles, that's where you start to get into a lot of the packaged, processed, and ultra-processed stuff. So eat simple. Eat clean, eat close to earth, and eat as naturally as you can, and your body will thank you. You don't have to follow a special trendy diet, but you can also throw in things like fasting, being grateful for a meal, and mindful eating, which is just basically paying attention to how you're eating, how fast you're eating, and what you're eating.