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