It seems that being a Nutritarian is getting some great press!

The New York Times/Wall Street Journal ran a great article on the Nutritarian Eating Style and got a lot of it exactly right!

I predict you'll begin to hear much about this nutrient dense approach to eating in the next several years.

We Americans are beginning to wise up and make the connection between our eating and our health.

I had the opportunity today to speak to a group of young professionals regarding these very connections.

We talked about the highly deceptive focus on Proteins, Fats and Carbohydrates in our society today and all of the books and programs that are out there trying to market some exact percentage of each that will lead us all to the perfect physique.

It appears you need to be armed with a graphing calculator, your blood type, your genealogy, your shoe size, your body morphology, and computer software to actually lose those pesky pounds.

We're so much smarter than that.

I find it fascinating that so many of us, even while knowing something's not quite right, still read every new diet book and magazine article that propagates the confusion in our society regarding foundational fueling of our bodies.

I mean, how many times can all of these fitness magazines re-write the EXACT same article?

I guess as many times as we buy it.

Somewhere deep inside you know that these trendy ideas are way off base. Keeping your body in a state of optimal health, including ideal body weight is actually quite intuitive.

BUT, we're all looking for some answer that gives us permission to avoid the real issues at hand: Laziness, ease, self gratification, taste preference, physical and emotional addictions to food.

I think it's time to re-educate ourselves in the basics and invest some time in ourselves to bring our lagging skills up to snuff.

So, as the next installment in the "How to Eat" Series, I want to briefly discuss macro and micro nutrients.

My audience today all knew the three macronutrients that get so much press:

Protein, Fat and Carbohydrates.

All of these ARE essential as they supply us with calories and calories give us energy. We just eat FAR too many of each of them.

I suggest we stop focusing on these three macronutrients and pay attention to these:

Micronutrients! Vitamins, Minerals, Fiber, Phytochemicals and Antioxidants (to name a few of the major players.)

Micronutrients are our body's heros. These have no calories and yet are responsible for keeping our bodies functioning at an optimal level, preventing and reversing disease and providing you the most rapid healthful weight loss program you'll ever try.

Forget about worrying about not getting enough Protein, Fat and Carbs.

The question is, "Are you getting enough Micronutrients?

Here's the bottom line.

If you're overweight, you've consumed more calories than you have used. And most of those calories have been from empty, nutrient poor foods. It's no wonder our bodies are over-fat and sick.

Re-arranging the percentages of fat, protein or carbs in your diet isn't going to change how many calories you're taking in very much.

Study after study shows that the incidence of chronic diseases such as lupus, MS, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, arthritis fibromyalgia and migraines (to name only a few) go up when we consume too much of ANY of the macronutrients.

Simply put, we need to focus on establishing an eating style that will take in the most amounts of micronutrients possible at every single meal. This is your key to superior health and ideal weight.

If you eat to maximize micronutrients in relation to calories, (the most nutrient dense foods also happen to have the fewest calories per unit) your body will function normally and begin to heal itself from any of the insults you have thrown at it from your past indiscretions.

Blood pressure will go down, the need for diabetic meds (Type 2) will negate, your high cholesterol will go down, your heart tissue begin to repair itself...and in record time!

The major killers in our society, heart disease and cancer will fade away and become tragedies of the past when we begin to adopt a Nutritarian Lifestyle and make the vast majority of what we eat be a wide array and colorful assortment of plant based foods.

So, the question arises, what are the most nutrient dense foods on the planet?

Chances are, you already instinctively know.

But I'll leave this picture to get you started.

In my next post we'll go into a few details and get you some great recipes to get you well on your way to a Nutritarian lifestyle and heal yourself of your chronic diseases, discomforts, headaches, constipation and a myriad of other inconveniences.

It's all so simple.

You're going to love it!