I am so excited about what may be the most gourmet and delicious getaway event ever! My team and I are going to be at DrFuhrman’s Health Getaway and we would love to meet you there. If you want to eat and live Nutrient Rich, this is the place to learn the lifestyle!
As a guest at Dr. Fuhrman’s Health Getaway at Rancho Bernardo Inn Golf Resort & Spa you’ll enjoy a memorable resort-style experience with deluxe accommodations, delicious healthy cuisine, championship golf, luxury spa, recreational activities or simple relaxation – while being immersed in Dr. Fuhrman’s health-promoting, life-changing program.
Special Guests To Appear at Dr. Fuhrman’s 2010 Health Getaway!
John Mackey
CEO of Whole Foods and nutritarian advocate
Speaking on: The Whole Foods Market Healthy Eating Revolution
Learn about John Mackey’s vision for a healthy eating initiative within Whole Foods Market and what could have profound historical implications to improve the health of all Americans.
Chad Sarno
Master Chef and Whole Foods Culinary Educator
Whole Foods Research and Development Chef for Healthy Eating Initiative
Prior to joining Whole Foods Market; Chad Sarno has been bringing his approach to healthy cuisine to some of the world’s premier organic vegan restaurants, spa resorts, film sets, and healing centers globally for over a decade.
Speaking On:
Simple Base Recipes for a delicious “Nutrient Rich” Lifestyle
• Base Tastes and flavor layering
• Mother sauces
• Working with plant based proteins
• Methods: braising, reducing, roasting, and steam-frying
Canapé Entertaining; the Bite Sized World of Possibilities
• Base components
• Herb and spice combining
• Taste balancing
• Methods: germinating, culturing, baking, steaming, infusing
This is a Fun Filled , Life Changing, Informative Event, and I look forward to you meeting DrFuhrman in person!
Register by March 5th & Save $100!
All Inclusive Pricing
7 day/6 night Package
• daily lectures & workshops with Dr. Fuhrman
• luxurious accommodations
• all meals showcasing Dr. Fuhrman’s Eat For Health cuisine
• daily exercise classes
• health screenings
• fun-filled social gatherings and more!
I look forward to seeing you at the:
- Daily lectures presented by Dr. Fuhrman on the latest nutritional research
- Dr. Fuhrman’s Eat For Health cuisine at every meal comprised of the most nutrient rich foods ever!
- Cooking demonstrations
- Exercise classes – twice daily
- Roundtable discussions – “living it” with Lisa Fuhrman
- Discussion groups to support you in Nutrient Rich lifestyle
- Fun and activities for the whole family
- Heated swimming pools including Spa saline pool
- Tennis & Volleyball
- Discounted golf at on-site Championship Course
- Elegantly designed accommodations with luxury linens, plasma televisions, iPod ready stereos, & wireless internet access
- Welcome gift for each guest
There is only one golden rule that you must follow if you are going to eat a Nutrient Rich diet Successfully. This new rule is not common and it might even sound like a marketing tactic at first because it’s everything you might want to hear. But there is a very good reason why this new rule is in place and it’ s because of the driving forces behind the entire dieting industry that keep you stuck trying to stick to a diet program you haven’t transitioned to yet, vs. successfully transitioning to a Nutrient Rich diet style in a way that works for you.
The new rule is this:
You Can Eat Whatever You Want…
Now as you digest that and say to yourself, “there is no way that a Nutrient Rich diet can be that flexible, or something like that“; relish the possibility while you read the second half of the rule to put it in perspective.
You Just Can’t Eat Whatever, and Get the Results You Want!
What’s so powerful about this new rule?
It acknowledges your capacity to make any choice you really want, and that is freedom.
It reveals that while you can eat whatever you want, not every choice is going to give you the same results.
It gives you the option to live with either set of consequences, the ones you want and the one you don’t want and the flexibility to experiment to prove it to yourself.
Having come from a background as a bodybuilder nearly 20 years ago, I was one of the biggest dieters out there, because during competitions we were so particular about what we ate that one slip up was enough to put you emotionally over the edge for the day.
Sound familiar?
I may have looked tough, but I’ll tell you, a bowl of honey nut cheerios which I loved at that time, would have sent me into a world of emotional hell.
Side note:
I believe that modern diet and fitness strategies were largely born of the body building-for-the-masses-wave that swept America for the past 50 years. As if everyone was getting ready for Mr Olympia or Ms Fitness competitions. We’re not, certainly not all year round and our lifestyle’s don’t support it.
Body builder’s and fitness competitors are judged on body fat % in part, so you can imagine, they will do anything to lose bodyfat and including trading in their health by eating predominantly foods “nutrient poor” foods.
This feeling of emotional hell, when you slip up or “fall off the wagon” because you didn’t “stick to your diet” and all the “diet speak” (the language of dieting) that surrounds the idea of following a diet program perfectly without fail, is what keeps people stuck.
You are dieting (trying to rigidly stick to or manipulate what you eat to lose weight or even get healthy) the second you say “I can’t eat that”. Now I don’t mean “I can’t eat that because it will make me sick or not feel good”, I mean “I can’t eat that because it’s not on my program”.
That!, is a major reason why you are unsuccessful in your attempt to change your eating habits, whether it’s eating better or less.
First, eating less of foods that are nutrient poor and not serving you to begin with is a failing strategy. You can’t expect to eat less “nutrient poor” chocolate chip cookies (there are Nutrient Rich ways to make such a cookie) and expect to be successful. It will never work!
Second, you can only eat less by eating better first. The better you eat, the faster you meet your nutrient needs, the less you will eat because you will not be driven to over consume.
But in this process, the most important concept to know is that you can eat whatever you want, so that you are free to eat what you choose. And psychology demonstrates, that if you know you can eat a certain food, but you also know it’s not serving you or it doesn’t make you feel good, and you are empowered to make that choice, you are far less prone to eat it.
And also keep in mind that there will be times, where you just want to eat a nutrient poor food for some reason and you need to be able to do that, without throwing yourself into a downward spiral.
I remember my friend Howie, once calling me up all our of sorts that he ate a Kit Kat. I said, “Howie, all you did was eat a Kit Kat”, now let’s move on. He was like… that’s it?. Yes, now carrie on with seeking out those foods that you grow to love, just as much, only you look, feel and perform better after you eat them.
Develop your mindset and master the art of making choices. The Golden Rule is the most successful place to start if you want to be psychologically healthy at the same time you start transitioning from nutrient poor to Nutrient Rich!
Nutrient-rich, low-calorie diets actually reprogram fat cells to keep the body thin
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
(NaturalNews) A study appearing in the American Chemical Society’s Journal of Proteome Research has given further insight into the correlation between calorie restriction and weight loss. While it is known that calorie-restricted diets are effective at helping people to lose weight, it has now been found that fat cell proteins play an important role in regulating bodily fat stores and extending life.
Dr. Edwin Mariman and his research team sought out to further understand the relationship between fat cell proteins and weight loss. Prior animal studies have shown that low-calorie diets rich in valuable nutrients are effective at maintaining proper bodily weight and lengthening life span.
In order to understand how it works in humans, the team investigated the subcutaneous fat cells of a group of obese people that followed a five-week calorie-restricted diet. Besides the fact that the average participant lost over 20 pounds, researchers discovered that six fat cell proteins in participants’ bodies had changed their composition throughout the course of the diet.
The significance of the discovery is that fat cell proteins instruct the body when and how to store fat. The composition change indicated that the low-calorie diet had actually restructured the proteins, signaling them to store less fat and to use it differently than before. Researchers believe the bodies of the study participants will now regulate themselves better, leading to better health and longer life.
According to researchers, being able to observe the marked changes in fat cell proteins will help verify the effectiveness of various methods of cutting calories to lose weight and gain better health.
I agree with Mike Adams comments on this subject, fat cells are not “stupid cells”. They morph and adapt, just like other cells, when the environment they are subject to changes. In this case when the diet being consumed is of higher quality and doesn’t fuel the need for fat cells to bloat and get bigger to store excess energy, let alone foreign matter that the body does not need, or to hold substances like excess sodium in solution and away from vital organs, they thin out. How else can you explain in simplistic terms, why, the moment you start eating more nutrient rich, healthy promoting foods and less calorie dense foods at the base of your diet, your weight goes down, even before you you’ve begun exercising!
This morning, as I woke up for the first Monday in 2010, I was greeted by an article written by the Bluebird Market, the “Eco-friendliest local growers and artisans organic market”.
It said, Becoming Nutrient-Rich in 2010.
That is a rally cry if I’ve ever heard one because it says something very powerful and something we assert here at NutrientRich.com – the more you eat Nutrient Rich foods, the more you become Nutrient Rich!
That’s right, your body builds and becomes more nutrient rich the more you eat a nutrient rich vegetable based diet, with beans, fruits, raw nuts and seeds and whole grains at least 90% of the time.
Forget for the moment, all the ins and outs, nuances, and facts and figures that are involved in the art and science of eating nutrient rich foods. For now, just think about feeding your body great tasting foods that fuel your body, and provide the best raw materials to grow and develop.
When you do, you literally become “nutrient rich”.
What’s so powerful about this, is that unlike most people who are a withdrawal headache away from needing to eat more food, when you become Nutrient Rich, you not only don’t get the withdrawal headaches or suffer from cravings due to “toxic hunger”, as DrFuhrman.com accurately calls it, but you naturally eat less food.
That’s right, when you become Nutrient Rich, the result of eating better foods for a significant period of time, you will naturally eat less food, live healthier and longer that way because your needs have been met.
It’s the basic law of quality selection which states –
When the quality of the nutriment being received by the living organism is higher than that of the present living tissue, the organism will discard lower grade cells to make room for appropriating the superior materials into new and healthy tissue.
You literally become Nutrient Rich and don’t have to eat nearly as much to satisfy hunger. Matter of fact (and some actually find this to be a challenge, including me), you will hardly ever feel hungry when you become Nutrient Rich.
You don’t become Nutrient Rich over night, it takes time, but eventually, your body builds this way, and your nutrient buckets are almost always filled. It’s the reason why a 200+ guy like me can get away with less than 2000 calories per day, even when in a lightly athletic mode, without even thinking about it.
The reason is simple, I often have stored energy from my last several meals, because they were likely all Nutrient Rich, 90% or more.
I was reading an article this morning on my iPhone about “New Years” resolution’s you can enjoy. It’s about the “Nutrient Rich Foods Approach”. It also says Winners Drink Milk!
Now of course, I just had to jump in on this one because the Dairy and Beef Boards have built their whole marketing and PR campaigns on conveying their products as Nutrient Rich foods and they are NOT, at lease by the true Nutrient Rich definition and believe me, allot of time, logic and brain power went into defining what it means to eat “Nutrient Rich”.
Before I go any further, and before you think I have it out for animal foods or the fine people who work in the industry that promotes them for nutritional purposes, I want to acknowledge, ironically, the dairy and beef boards for such a great campaign.
The Nutrient Rich foods campaign is really a great campaign, one of the best I have ever seen in nutrition marketing. But also understand, that while NutrientRich.com supports the campaign in a many ways, there are diet traps hidden within, that can cost you your health and cause you to chase your tail with food issues for the rest of your life!
So as the founder of NutrientRich.com, I am going to comment on the article’s passages in bold. My comments are indented.
Losing weight is a common New Year’s resolution, but people often resort to diets that restrict nutrients and eliminate food groups. This year, why not avoid thinking about food restrictions and aim to think about eating sensibly to nourish your body and give yourself the essential nutrition you need. “You are more likely to keep resolutions that are positive, such as eating more fruit and vegetables, getting the recommended three servings of dairy products every day, and including regular physical activity” stated Diane Ruyack, MS, RD, CD.
First of all in the New Year, really consider what the word eating “sensibly” means. This is “diet speak” for make sure you don’t go radical on me and cut out eating the food my industry provides.
This is a common term used by eat-everything-in-moderation, four food group activists, members of the dairy and beef council who desperately want their foods to be considered nutrient rich, old timer nutritionists who understand nutrient poor nutrition better than nutrient rich nutrition, and those who are so committed to eating animal foods because of familiarity and addiction, and thinking that animal foods are the only place to get protein and calcium.
Let’s get real, not eating a food group for intelligent health and environmental reasons does not mean you are “restricting” yourself. It means you are making a choice not to consume something that doesn’t serve you.
The Golden Rule of eating truly Nutrient Rich, is that you can eat whatever you want, you just can’t eat “whatever” and get the results you want.
It is not “sensible” to eat significant quantities of foods that don’t serve your health and it’s even worse to make some feel like they are buying into a diet of “restriction” if they don’t eat sensibly.
There is nothing that sensible about eating a diet “based” in foods that clog your arteries, cause you to age faster, toxify your body, are loaded with saturated fat and cholesterol and rape our planet, of trees and land to produce an inferior food supply that is rich in some nutrients, but as a whole food, is nutrient poor and is a primary cause of disease.
So be careful about falling for words like “sensible” and “restriction” that are used to control your food choices on a false premise.
Eating a diet that is rich, or based in, or predominantly dairy and animal products will ensure that you are “restricting” nutrients and that’s exactly what you don’t want to do. Eliminating or minimizing entire food groups is fine if they are nutrient poor.
Nutrient-Rich New Year’s RESOLUTIONS:
We are all for true Nutrient Rich New Years Resolutions!
The Nutrient Rich Foods approach to eating is a great way to start the New Year healthy and happy.
Good idea!
Eating Nutrient Rich is the most successful way to eat for health, performance and natural weight loss.
Make your choices based on the total nutrient package of a food or a meal, including the vitamins, minerals, protein and fiber it contains.
If you make food choices based on the “total nutrient package” of a food, milk and beef do not stack up. They are rich in protein no doubt (non health promoting), have no carbohydrate, no phytochemicals, “some” vitamins and minerals, they have saturated “non essential” fat (amongst other fats), they have cholesterol that you don’t need to take in from dietary sources since your body produces its own cholesterol, no water, no fiber… need I keep going?
Now you can eat small amounts of animal products (even I do from time to time) in a total “meal” package and still be eating nutrient rich 90% or more plant based, but the key is to keep your animal product consumption to 10% of less, if you eat them.
Here’s the deal, YOU DON’T NEED ANIMAL PRODUCTS FOR NUTRITIONAL PURPOSES [IN MOST CASES].
Following the Nutrient Rich Foods approach is a positive, realistic way to think about eating that can provide a fresh jump start for the New Year by shifting the focus from foods to avoid to foods you can enjoy.
Of course, the dairy and beef board do not want you to focus on avoiding dairy or meat (animal) products.
Let’s be clear, you can enjoy more truly nutrient rich foods, meals and menus than you can ever get to in your lifetime, (plant based), and if you eat animal products, include small amounts.
But be careful not to buy into the thinking that eliminating or minimizing the consumption of animal products means you can’t enjoy your new years resolution to eat Nutrient Rich foods.
Animal products, based on the explanation above are nutrient poor. Here’s a simple rational:
Why do you think high protein low carb advocates are always posturing their animal food recommendations along side “Nutrient Rich” vegetables and fruits…? It’s because they are lacking in nutrients.
You never see Nutrient Rich food advocates posturing their food recommendations along side beef and dairy, and if they do include, they mention foods like white meat chicken or turkey or fish and almost always say eat “small amounts”?
The reason is, animal products are nutrient poor and unless you are eating truly nutrient rich foods as the majority of your diet, disease is usually not far away.
Even the dairy and beef boards message says, “eat more fruits and vegetables”, FIRST.
Keep in mind: the main reason why people still eat predominantly animal products is because that’s where they think their protein comes from. ALL PROTEIN COMES FROM PLANTS!
Categorically speaking, the only thing you don’t want to miss out on are whole categories of nutrients. But you can easily eliminate whole categories of foods, or at least minimize them.
Here are some tips:
1. Start every day with a nutrient-rich breakfast, such as a spinach, tomato and pepper omelet with lean ground beef and serve it with whole wheat toast or oatmeal made with low fat milk and topped with dried fruit and nuts.
You could do a lot worse than this meal for sure given a large part of our population wakes up to eat a “continental breakfast” of donuts and cereal. But keep in mind the costs of eating an omelet and ground beef every morning for breakfast, on your health, you heart and the planet.
2. Shop the perimeter of the grocery store to find nutrient-rich foods; focus on the produce section as well as dairy, meat and seafood aisles.
What is new about that message? That’s what many people are doing now. What about eating a diet rich in dairy, meat and seafood is Nutrient Rich?
Of course, the produce section, but dairy, meat and seafood? As if refined foods were the only cause of dietary induced diseases. Nutrient poor foods that contain concentrated substances that your body does not need, are a major cause of disease.
Don’t fall for the Nutrient Rich foods marketing campaign of the dairy and beef industry lock stock and barrel. It’s a good one, but hidden in the message are diet traps.
3. Encourage your family to try a new and out-of-the-ordinary food each week, such as arugula, lentils, low fat ricotta cheese, avocados or kiwifruit.
That’s right, intersperse cheese, (the highest fat food in the world) even if it is low fat, in between the lentils and kiwifruit. Otherwise, a great idea!
4. Make your plate more colorful by including more bright fruits and vegetables in every meal.
Of course, the colors are where all the nutrients are. And these foods have protein too!
5. Instead of frying or sautéing meat, choose to grill or broil lean pieces of chicken, pork or beef.
Right, because cooking and frying already toxic, non health promoting foods, that also have to be eaten lean to be eaten better, would make them even worse.
6. Try low fat or fat-free milk instead of whole milk.
Notice you never have to say, eat fat free or leaner versions of apples, nuts, romaine or quinoa?
7. Stock desk drawers at work with instant oatmeal packets, light microwave popcorn, raisins, dried apricots and single-serve containers of peaches or pears packed in water or juice.
But of course.
8. Trade soda for 100 percent fruit juices or low fat milk.
Good idea, in theory; only standard 100% fruit juices are not usually 100% juice, are not fresh and without the fiber they become an insulin spiking nightmare.
9. Instead of eating out, bring the family closer by working together to try a new nutrient-rich recipe at least once a week.
This is a great idea. Although you can eat out the Nutrient Rich Way, with relative ease. But this is great advice, it’s good for the well being of your family.
A New Years Food Resolution you can enjoy, is 80-90% or more truly Nutrient Rich foods, meals and menus derived from these foods, 10% or less animal foods (if you eat them) which are rich in some nutrients but as a whole nutrient poor and less than 5% or less refined foods, (if you eat them at all), that have had all the nutrients stripped out of them and are nutrient barren.
What does this convert too?
If you eat 5 meals a day, that 10% means that if you eat animal products you are eating approx 4 meals per week with animal protein in them. I, along with thousands of others know that you will never miss eating animal products if you include them in small quantities, a couple of times per week.
For people who grew up on eating animal products, that strategy works great!
If you eat 5 meals a day (including smaller snacks), and eat 5% of your diet from refined nutrient barren foods, that means the equivalent of 2 junk food meals per week. That strategy also works because you will never miss it.
Meanwhile you are focused on adding more and more Nutrient Rich foods and learning both how to Lose Weight the Nutrient Rich Way, as well eat for health and performance, and natural weight loss.
Having come from a background as a bodybuilder nearly 20 years ago, I was one of the biggest dieters out there, because during competitions we were so particular about what we ate that one slip up was enough to put you emotionally over the edge for the day.
This morning, as I woke up for the first Monday in 2010, I was greeted by an article written by the Bluebird Market, the “Eco-friendliest local growers and artisans organic market”.
I was reading an article this morning on my iPhone about 
