Dear One,
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The following top 3 nutrition tips are the first things to do and to keep doing to keep improving one’s nutrition. See, when it comes to nutrition, like in almost everything, it is all about relative improvement. Always strive to nourish yourself better than you did the day before.
Let’s say X drinks coffee with white sugar and sodas everyday. Then they decide to switch to decaffeinated coffee without sugar and fruit juice from a carton.
Y drinks 3 beers everyday. Then they decide to reduce that to only 1 a day.
Z only drinks natural freshly squeezed fruit and vegetable juices, herbal teas and pure water. Then they decide to drink more green vegetable juices.
X, Y and Z have all improved their nutrition. And that is the key.
The 3 nutrition tips below equally apply to X, Y and Z. To anybody, no matter whether one is vegetarian or not, whether one eats mostly raw foods or not.
1. Say NO to WHITE / PROCESSED FOODS
White rice, white pasta, white flour … are virtually EMPTY. They have been depleted of all their nutrition, leaving only carbohydrates behind. At best, they are empty calories (no fibre, no essential fats, no proteins) ; but over-processed foods like trans fats are so chemically different from what our bodies recognise as FOOD that our bodies just don’t know what to do with them. The best our bodies can then do is store them in a ‘safe’ place, like CELLULITE …
‘I only eat brown rice and wholemeal flour, so what else can I improve ?’ Colourful foods are usually richer in phytonutrients than their white varieties. Try black rice, red rice.
‘I am a raw foodist, I don’t eat rice or wheat or potatoes’ You can still improve your nutrition by eating your nuts with the skin (after soaking), colourful food varieties, your fruits and vegetables with the skins and seeds when possible.
2. EMBRACE VARIETY
When offered the option, always choose to eat the foods you have eaten the least of recently. Ideally, you want to aim at eating a RAINBOW diet.
3. ADD
If you think a particular food is healthy, ADD it to your diet. You just don’t need to focus on stopping eating anything. Over time (and how much time depends on the individual and the physiological and emotional context attached to different foods), you will find that as you eat more ‘healthy’ foods, you just eat less of the ‘less healthy’ ones.
For example, if you were to add raw food into your diet by just drinking a vegetable juice before breakfast, or eating a small salad before your lunch. Because you will not be as hungry as if you started off with your usual breakfast / lunch, you will find that you will eat less of whatever foods that compose your breakfast and lunch. And ultimately, because you will be getting your nutrition mostly from the ‘healthy’ foods, you will actually want to eat less of the other foods, and have less cravings for them.
Simple, right ? These 3 tips are the first ones I give to anyone who asks me about nutrition advice.
What do you think ? What are your top 3 nutrition tips ?
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