| Book after book regarding health and healthy | | | | do far better on animal protein, while others |
| eating only seems to be adding to the | | | | do better on vegetable protein. It seems that |
| confusion. Learn what you can do to determine | | | | trying to find one nutrition plan to fit all |
| what kind of nutrition is best for you. | | | | doesn't work.What to do?If you want to be |
| "Eat more carbohydrates!" | | | | healthy, then you need to learn to tune into |
| "Eat more protein!""Be a | | | | your body to discover what makes you feel |
| vegetarian!""Vegetarians are not | | | | healthy and energized in the long run and |
| healthy.""Don't eat grains!""Eat more | | | | what makes you feel tired and depleted in the |
| grains!"Are you confused about how to eat for | | | | long run. You have to go by the long run, |
| excellent health? Even the research is | | | | because in the short run sugar and coffee can |
| contradictory!Since my early 20s, I have been | | | | energize you, but in the long run they |
| interested in health and nutrition. I was a | | | | deplete you,There are certain guidelines that |
| sickly child and I hated being sick, so when | | | | I have found to be very helpful for promoting |
| I was 22 years old and still didn't have the | | | | excellent health:1. Limit or eliminate sugar |
| energy I wanted, I started to study | | | | and other refined, processed products. It is |
| everything available about nutrition. At that | | | | important to eat foods that are |
| time, I threw out all my packaged foods and | | | | nutrient-dense. Most processed foods have no |
| began buying fresh organic produce at the one | | | | nutritional value. 2. Notice whether you feel |
| little health food store in my neighborhood. | | | | better with more animal protein or more |
| It seemed simple then - just eat food as | | | | vegetable protein. 3. Eat as close to natural |
| close to nature as possible and everything | | | | as possible - organic fruits, vegetables, |
| will be okay. My health improved dramatically | | | | beans, whole grains, grass-finished organic |
| and I believed that I was on the right | | | | meats and free-range organic poultry and |
| track.However, since then study after study | | | | eggs.4. If you find that eating vegetarian |
| has come out regarding what creates excellent | | | | makes you feel much better, then read about |
| health. One good example is the "China | | | | healthy vegetarian diets.5. If you find that |
| Project," which was published in 1990. This | | | | you need animal protein to feel energized, |
| study looked at different villages in China - | | | | then look for the highest quality you can |
| those that ate meat and those that were | | | | find. Studies have shown that eating |
| vegetarian. The study concluded that eating | | | | grain-finished beef and lamb is not good for |
| vegetarian was far healthier than eating | | | | anyone. The fat of grain-finished cows |
| meat. On the surface, this looks like a good | | | | drastically changes in ways that can cause |
| study. However, when you look deeper into it, | | | | illness. The fat of organic grass-finished |
| you discover that there are numerous flaws in | | | | beef and lamb contain high quantities of |
| the study. For example, other studies | | | | Omega 3, which is not true of grain-finished |
| indicate that healthy eating varies depending | | | | meat. In addition, cows that eat grass |
| upon your heritage. If you come from an Asian | | | | sprayed with pesticides have a high |
| background where meat eating was uncommon, | | | | concentration of the pesticide in their fat - |
| then bringing a lot of meat into the diet can | | | | also causing health problems.6. Dairy: Many |
| have negative effects on health. On the other | | | | people are allergic to dairy and do best |
| hand, if your ancestors were meat-eaters, | | | | without it. However, some people who cannot |
| then you might find yourself feeling shaky | | | | tolerate pasteurized dairy do fine on organic |
| and tired on a vegetarian diet. Therefore, a | | | | raw dairy. I raised my three children on |
| study that was done on Asians might not apply | | | | organic raw milk and other raw organic dairy |
| to people who are not Asian.I read an | | | | because it was legal to buy in California. |
| excellent book on nutrition that stated that | | | | All of them did very well on it. The claims |
| you get all the protein you need from | | | | of people getting sick from organic raw dairy |
| vegetable sources, and that if you eat | | | | are unfounded, perpetuated by the pasteurized |
| primarily fruits and vegetables, you will | | | | dairy industry! My rule of thumb is to eat as |
| find yourself feeling very healthy and | | | | close to natural and local as possible. If |
| energized. I tried the nutrition plan for | | | | people didn't eat it 200 years ago, it |
| three weeks and felt awful! Reading further | | | | probably isn't good for us now! |
| in other books, I discovered that some people | | | | |