 Hello and welcome to vegan nutrition for everyday living. My name is Rian Jones and I'm going to be your lecturer. Whole food is a food that hasn't been processed or refined, so literally if you imagine pulling food out of the ground or picking it from a tree without messing with it any further, that would be defined as a whole food. Now there are many influences on what makes us eat. So we don't always respond to a rumbling tummy, we eat for lots of different reasons. Now some of the reasons that we eat are because of early influences so in our childhood. So if we considered food to be comforting food, foods that our parents fed us as a child, we might gravitate to those kind of foods which are not always necessarily helpful.