OPTIMAL NUTRITION
Do you know that in order to be total body healthy one must consume six vital nutrients?
What Nutrients We Need
1. Carbohydrates
2. Proteins
3. Fats
4. Vitamins
5. Minerals
6. Water
Do you know what the purpose of consuming these 6 vital nutrients and their jobs?
What Nutrients Do
ENERGY NUTRIENTS:
Carbohydrates, Proteins, and Fats are broken down within our cells from the foods we eat and is converted to energy from the body.
DISEASE PREVENTION NUTRIENTS:
Vitamins, Minerals, and Water are within the foods we eat that helps us prevent deficiency conditions that could lead to disease.
Did you know that our body wants to work to support what we need, but it our responsibility to give our bodies the right tools to do so?
Why We Need All Nutrients
1. ENERGY
2. GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
3. DISEASE & DEGENERATION PREVENTION
4. REGULATES BODYS PROCESSES
OPTIMAL EXERCISE
Do you know why exercise and nutrition intertwined is vital to total body health?
So we eat food for energy, which aids in our growth and development, which in turn regulates our bodies processes, and keeps us from getting sick and developing degenerative diseases.
Why is Exercise Important in this process to gaining optimal Health?
When we exercise we breakdown muscles for growth which in turn makes us stronger.
When we exercise we increase our heart rate which in turn moves the blood through out the body, so we can deliver nutrients efficiently to repair the breakdown of muscles.
Giving the body a good flow of blood through exercise provides our body the ability to deliver the nutrients we eat so we can fight environmental toxins, fight sickness, repair damaged cells, fight off germs, and keep our biggest muscle our heart strong.
Exercise also helps us maintain our weight, increase our metabolism processes, and provides the ability for our body to enhance our quality of life.
Optimal
Nutrient Density
How can I increase my nutrient density in the foods I eat?
Choose foods that naturally encompass lots of micro and macro nutrients in one item.
Choose a variety of colorful fruits and vegetable and consume that variety daily.
Pair complementary nutritious foods that provide you with quality complete proteins focusing on Amino Acids.
What decreases nutrient density?
Let's talk about things that hinder nutrient density, or even blocks quality of absorption of nutrients, and even effective delivery of nutrients through out the body.
Toxins like insecticides, pesticides ,herbicides, germs, genetic modification, water quality, chemicals.
Time between picking the food and consumption, how we cook and prepare our foods, what we pair our foods with, and properly cleansing.
The way we farm and grow our foods also determines nutrient density. For example quality of soil (what nutrients the soil had), what the animal ate (grass-fed grain fed), what chemicals were sprayed on the item, and the quality of water growing the food item.
What can we actually do about consuming, absorbing, and ensuring nutrient density?
Ideally we buy organic, never processed, from a local farmer, the day we pick it we eat it, and pair it with complimentary foods that have all the nutrients we need in it, Oh and Don't forget exercise right before we eat so we have prepared the body to absorb our nutrients most efficiently, don't forget to drink all the water too to be able to distribute the nutrients effectively.
Yeah ok right in a perfect world that would just be fantastic right.
IDENTIFY what our problems are time, money, convenience, kids, sports, work, help, money, access to farmers markets the list goes on right.
1. BE OPEN TO CHANGE
2. BE OPEN TO LEARNING
3. BE WILLING TO MAKE NEW CHANGES
4. IF YOU ARE STRUGGLING
HIRE A PROFESSIONAL TO EXAMINE YOUR DETAILS AND MAKE YOUR PLAN THAT WILL WORK BEST FOR YOUR LIFESTYLE!
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