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