Nutrition
Nutrition
Nutrition
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Food can make us thrive or it can put us into survival mode. The ancient physicians knew how important food was for our health. In fact, one of my favorite quotes is from the ancient physician, Hippocrates who said “Let food by thy medicine, and let medicine be thy food”. Nowadays many consider nutrition whatever quick fix piece of garbage they can shove in their mouth between busy meetings and a hectic life. There are more diet books than any other subject out there and yet many in our western culture are overweight or even obese. Information overload is the norm and can overwhelm even the most well intentioned researcher.
It is for this reason that no one diet can be a cookie cutter mold for everyone. Each of us has trillions of cells each creating 100,000 chemical reactions a second that react differently to certain foods. Even a food most would consider “healthy” cannot work for certain metabolic types and can create inflammation in certain people. By determining your primal pattern diet type you can begin to truely nourish your body with foods designed for your unique metabolism. In the book, How to Eat, Move and Be Healthy by Paul Chek there is a short quiz to determine which Primal Pattern Diet type you are.
Most of us do not eat enough variety of foods and tend to eat the same foods day after day. By rotating our foods we can begin to notice certain symptoms in our health we may not have attributed to our diet. Anything from headaches, anxiety, ADHD behavior, tired but wired, nervous evergy, sleepy, dull or depressed mood, mental sluggishness, heavy gut, full but hungry, craving sweets or caffeine can be attributed to our diet.
The system I use will help you identify your primal pattern diet type and I will help guide you in determining the best foods for you. A diet log is key in the beginning to start to associate symptoms to food choices. After awhile though it becomes easier to identify foods that you might be intolerant to and never realized it because it was consumed so frequently. I will also help guide you to eat intuitively and connecting to your soul for directions on proper eating for your unique metabolic needs. Not only is this type of “diet” sustainable, it is also so freeing knowing there’s no one “right” way for any person to eat all the time.
