Nutrition
Educated physical trainers will pinpoint nutritional intake as being far more crucial than the exercise itself, which merely acts as a stimulus for exercise specific adaptation. Nutrition determines your vitality and thus the body's ability to response to exercise stimulus.
"It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver."
Gandhi
Diet
- Healthy Sustainable Eating
- The following three dietary philosophies are all well documented by respected authorities and lead to equally impressive results. They lead to very similar meals (bar the lack of animal protein on the raw food diet!). Perhaps the most sensible approach is a combination of these philosophies, summarized as:
- Ideally cut out all industrially processed foods.
- Fresh organic produce (vegetables and nuts, with fruits in appropriate volumes).
- Fresh organic animal protein - meat, fish, dairy (unpasteurised and unhomogenised) & eggs .
- Limiting or totally excluding grains.
- Where the food source is indigestible, or toxic in it's natural state , you have two main options - fermenting or heating. Where fermenting is not possible (generally due to time or taste preferences), heating becomes the next option. Heat using saturated (low or high temperatures), or mono saturated (low temperatures) fats.
- Meat and fish may be heat sealed and lightly cooked to limit any danger of bacteria, viral or pathogenic transfer.
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- The biggest factors in favour of these similar nutritional philosophies are:
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- Time - they have the benefit of time span behind their claims.
- Scientific findings are often only relevant to that level of understanding at that point in history. Man, along with all the other species still in existence today has evolved over millions of years. It therefore makes sense to look at evidence depicting a long term track record. Yes, newer findings my potentially reveal useful information. But time span is the real acid test. Even a few millennia of dietary change therefore can provide little comfort in terms of optimal nutrition or lifestyle management.
- Organic Produce - there is a strong correlation between the industrialization of food and the rise of autoimmune diseases.
- Dispel the Lipid Hypothesis - saturated fat was never the enemy ... it's grains and sugars.
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- Proven Dietary Philosophies
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- Paleolithic Nutrition ("Stone Age" man)
- Paleo Proponents
- Robb Wolf - Robb Wolf Blog
- Dr. Loren Cordain - The Paleo Diet Website & The Paleo Diet Blog
- Michael R Eades MD - The Protein Power
- Kurt G. Harris MD - PaNu
- Keith Norris - Theory To Practice
- Mark Sisson - Mark's Daily Apple
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- Paleolithic Diet » Explanation ¦ Free Resources ¦ Reading - Metabolic Man: Ten Thousand Years from Eden; Nutrition and Physical Degeneration.
- Mark Sisson: Crossfit Radio (Direct link)
and Underground Wellness interview.
- Lierre Keith - The Vegetarian Myth: Underground Wellness interview
- Medicine Men Go Wild: Healthiest Hearts.
- Michael Palin for BBC: Cooking in the Sahara.
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- Metabolic Typing Nutrition
- There is a reason that many of the dieting regimes being sold are still around ... some people will thrive on them (or at least temporarily appear to thrive). Why they work for some is best explained through an appreciation of metabolic typing.
Just as ethnic groups around the world visibly adapted over thousands of years to new climatic conditions, at a cellular level we too adapted to a certain available fuel mix. A reshuffle of the gene pool due to modern transportation, and our reliance on supermarkets food stuffs, have made dietary selection a rather tricky matter. This is the reason for the science of metabolic typing.
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- William Walcott - Metabolic Typing » Underground Wellness interview.
- William Walcott - Metabolic Typing » Web site.
- Paul Chek's PPS Success » Metabolic Typing Overview.
- Paul Check (candid comments & metabolic typing implementation) » Fitness & Nutrition Radio.
- Underground Wellness CHEK Questionnaire » Pdf.
- Identify your Metabolic Typing Type (remember print-out or note your scores) » here.
- Metabolic Typing - Fine tune your individual fuel mix » here.
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- Raw Food Diet
- Dr Wynnie Chan - The Raw Food Diet.
- David Wolf - The Best of Raw Food (Channel).
- Leda Maliga & Aiyana Elliott - Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days » Documentary.
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- Diet Directory
- A comprehensive list of fashionable diets.
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