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Change Your Thinking – Change Your Shape
Daily motivation Tips – What the heck should I eat?
When it comes to getting in shape, listening to issues of health and nutrition you are more likely to hear what you should not eat rather than what you should eat. It is easier for the expert to advise what to cut out than to eat because for almost every single food on the planet you can make an argument along some lines about why you should avoid it. It is this barrage of advice from different expert that leaves most people who have taken an interest in nutrition to wonder what the heck should I eat?
The idea of nutrition is to provide you with everything your body needs to function. This includes protein, carbohydrates and fat as well as the smaller vitamins, mineral and underrated enzymes.
The basic model of nutrition deems you are low in all of these and you must get as many as you can. In this case your goal would be to follow a diet that provides the maximum amount and broadest range of nutrients possible.
The current “healthy eating” model of nutrition says that it is still base don the original model of nutrition but it is not. The current model says to get a broad range of nutrients but then goes onto recommend you eat more of certain nutrients than others, e.g. the nutrients found in grains but not those in red meats for example (grains = healthy, red meat = caution food in the current day version of nutrition).
The genotrophic model of nutrition believes that certain people are more adept at handling certain foods and nutrients and less able to tolerate others. The goal within this is to eat the foods that your body needs. This may or may not agree with the traditional views of nutrition and the emphasis is on finding what your body needs and not any general advice for a population as a whole.
So when it comes to what to eat you can find yourself torn between conflicting advice. The conflicting advice stems form the different models of nutrition. Which model is the best? Well, that is simple, the one that gets you results!
As for what to eat, the models agree on a couple of things:
- Eat protein, carbs and fat within a meal.
- Eat lots of vegetables.
The models do not agree however on:
- Which types of protein, carbs or fat are best.
- Which vegetables you should / should not have.
Mind-body change exercise
- What model of nutrition do you follow?
- Are you ensuring you eat a protein, carb and fat source at each meal?
- Do you eat lots of vegetables?
- Does your plan give you the results you desire?
- How might another model view what you should be eating?
Helping you Change your thinking and change your shape…
Ben Wilson
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