Food & Nutrition
A visiting friend brought us a crisp cool lettuce, grown in their garden. As we unwrapped it to put it in the fridge, out jumped a gorgeous shiny green frog. Now you know that’s a fresh picked lettuce! Fresh veggies - they are alive! They taste better. They scrunch better in your mouth. They look better on your plate. They are better for us all.
Preparing our meals with fresh unprocessed foods is a key to optimising our life-potential. We all know that already. But how could we get feedback on the food we’re eating - on how optimal it is for us?
Following are a few suggestions.
We could consider the 80/20 rule:
Is 80% of our food fresh and unprocessed?
We could consider our rubbish bin
More packaging might indicate we’re eating more processed foods.
We could consider our skin and nails
They are healthier with optimum nutrition.
We could consider our bowel function.
Daily, well formed, easily passed - three indicators that our gut is happy.
We could consider our energy level through the day.
Highs and lows can indicate imbalanced carbohydrate intake.. Sustained energy and mental clarity are two indicators of helpful nutrition.
We could consider our body shape - apple or pear?
A pear shaped body is considered to indicate a healthier distribution of extra fat in the body than an apple shaped body. An apple shaped body is likely to have more fat packed around internal organs and indicates a greater risk of heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. The “Waist:Hip ratio” can be used as an indicator of body shape and associated health risk. Measure around the waist at about the belly button level. Then measure the widest part of the hips/buttocks. Divide the Waist measurement by the Hip measurement. If the waist is bigger than the hips (the ratio is greater than 1) this indicates a much higher risk of disease than a ratio below 0.95. A ratio higher than 0.95 suggests we could reconsider our nutrition and ‘pear back’ our calorie intake.
Perhaps most of all, do we relish the experience of munching fresh, unprocessed tucker?
Enjoy.
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