Nutrition basics
There’s no one diet to suit everyone. However, here’s a couple of healthful guidelines that would benefit just about everybody.
- Eat a wide variety of whole, real foods and limit processed, packaged and refined foods as much as possible. If your great grandma wouldn’t recognize it, then it’s probably not the best choice. When all else fails, take a step back and return to basics. Eat foods that have sustained cultures of healthy peoples for tens of thousands of years.
- Focus on quality – opt for grass-fed meats, organic dairy products, cold-pressed extra virgin oils, properly prepared sourdough or sprouted breads and in-season fresh fruits and vegetables. Choose locally-grown products where possible.
- Eat nourishing, real fats – the kind that have been eaten for tens of thousands of years: organic butter, ghee, beef tallow, egg yolks, coconut oil, extra virgin olive oil, and the fat from pasture-fed animals. Avoid margarines and all vegetable, nut and seed oils.
- Quit dieting, right now. Ignore fads, trends, health claims and ‘politically correct’ nutrition rules and go back to simple, real foods. Avoid anything labeled “healthy”, “lite”, “low-fat”, “fat-free” or “skim” – honestly, they’re not whole foods and they’re not the more nutritious option. Don’t stress over food. Listen to your body.
- Lastly, enjoy your food! Cook, share, savour your meals, knowing that they are nourishing your body.