There is eating, and there is fueling your body.

They are related, but they are not the same.

In this post, you are about to discover the most important development in nutrition that there has ever been--and maybe ever will be, and the implications that you are either about to just discover or get clearer on will have a credible influence on how you eat, why you eat, and when you eat, for here on out.

Sticking to a diet program is not what is important, rather, it's the knowledge and understanding you apply to your eating style that will enable you to not only eat better, naturally, but to ultimately, optimize the way you eat for weight, energy, health and quality of life results, far beyond what most people can even imagine right now.

To begin understanding it, you've got to discern the difference between eating and fueling your body:

1. Eating is the act of consuming food, and it is tied to all kinds of things from nourishment, to enjoyment, to social activity and more.
2. Fueling your body requires that you eat, but it's based on giving your body what it needs to function and perform well. When you fuel your body right, not only will you function and perform well, you will also look and feel the way you want to as well. This is what is meant to be the basic premise of eating.

Unfortunately, today, "eating" has gotten so far away from the basic premise of why we eat food that it takes a real wake-up call to realize that we are addicted to eating poorly and for the wrong reasons! And, trying to make up for all of that with simple-minded, single-variable diets that that don't solve the real problems, are all a colossal waste of time, even if you do "lose some weight," in the short term.

At the end of the day, it all comes down to learning how to fuel your body right, properly and effectively, and in a way that you enjoy; that works for you. You should not do so in a way that prevents you from experiencing uncomfortable body processes, but legitimately works "for" you and solves the problem that drives most people to eat in ways that work against them.

What's the problem?

In the context of fueling your body, we have been sold on the idea that we need the macronutrients-- carbohydrates, protein and fat, in our diets, and usually in some specific ratio, or to the inclusion or exclusion of one or the other, more or less of one or another, or this type or that, etc. This is at least some truth in all of these points, but what we have overlooked is that these "calorie-" containing nutrients are not the basis of a healthy way of eating.

It's the micronutrients-- the vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, phytochemicals (phytonutrients), and fiber that matter more than calories. Micronutrients have no calories, but they do determine how many calories you will end up eating and for what reasons.

For the purpose of this post, which is focused on fueling your body, I'll refer to these micronutrients, as "nutrients" and macronutrients as "calories," which is a distinction I learned from my mentor Joel Fuhrman. M.D.

What's never been quite clear for most people is that fueling your body, the most basic premise of eating, is about giving your body what it needs to function and perform well, first and foremost, and that is not simply the intake of carbohydrate and calories. This is the role that micronutrients play in conjunction with the appropriate amount and kind of calories (real food carbohydrate, health-promoting protein and essential fat) that you need.

That switch in emphasis from calories to nutrients, is what makes the difference in the results you experience--the Switch to micronutrient rich eating that is calorie appropriate, not calorie-rich and poor in nutrients.

I think this is why Eat to Live has been such a big success. It's author, my teacher, gave rise to this distinction and it is a big one; it is THE one in my opinion that matters most in nutrition. It's given rise to the work that I do here--helping people to eat healthy as part of a performance lifestyle, which focuses you on your real goals in life, unleashed from the hidden lifestyle challenges that hold you back--eating micronutrient poor is one of the hidden challenges that holds you back from living well.

Weight loss is not a natural goal, and is based on eating in an unhealthy manner, and then manipulating the amount of macronutrient "calorie" content to eat less.This is a vicious cycle that I hope you will not engage in, during 2013. For the same matter, thinking that the gluten content or the glycemic index, or whether or not you eat a small amount of animal products or not, are in some ways, whole answers on their own, will also keep you stuck. Each is important, but is not the whole answer to healthy eating.

Even focusing on fueling your body with nutrients first, and calories second, is not the whole answer, but it is the cornerstone or foundation of a healthy eating style. When you get this right, you will get everything else right, too.

So, to begin fueling your body right in 2013, focus on eating micronutrient-rich foods first, which are naturally lower in calories, and contain normal and natural amounts of calories that you can increase or decrease based on your activity levels. Increase your activity levels and you will naturally eat more. Do this, and watch what happens to your weight and health. When you make this "Switch" everything changes.

Up next, I'll be talking about the two most successful ways to eat. Learn them and you'll develop a nutrient-rich healthy eating style of your own.

It's the power of low-calorie, micronutrient-rich superfood drinks and a nutrient-rich healthy eating plan, working hand in hand for you, in your life. .

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Nutrient Rich is all about Healthy Eating for Life.

It's a breakthrough in how we view the food's we eat.

The reason is simple, if you want to eat to live more successfully, optimally healthy, at or near your ideal weight, all while aging slower and looking younger and maximize your longevity, Nutrient Rich is THE WAY to eat. No other eating style can claim to deliver all 5 of these benefits. 

Elvis has left the building!

You've probably heard for years how you should be "eating more fruits and vegetables" in your diet, but I'm with Dr. Fuhrman on this, I almost completely disagree with this philosophy, as if adding small amounts of fruits and vegetables to your diet is somehow going to make your diet and you more healthy. Ok, maybe a little.

But as a belief (a story we tell over and over again), we do not need to to ADD more fruits and vegetables to our diet, we need to comprise our diet predominantly of vegetables, fruits, beans, legumes, raw nuts seeds and whole grains and the countless meals and menus you can derive from these first class food categories, and if you want to add small amounts of nutrient poor animal products and refined foods into your diet, go ahead. 

That's a very different message. That' Nutrient Rich Healthy Eating.

I often make light (when I'm speaking) when talking about the person who eats pastry only to follow it up with a "broccoli chaser" so they can feel better, as if the healthy vegetable voided out the toxic, addiction-reinforcing nature of the pasty that went before it. It doesn't work that way. Your body now has both the pastry and the broccoli to contend with; and the pastry will cause a great deal of accumulative damage when your body has to digest, absorb, assimilate, store, burn, and eliminates that pastry. It's not food, it's a food "stuff" that the body does not need. 

So why would someone eat a pastry?

It's a "food addiction" for sure, but they will tell you that they just "enjoy the taste" and they should be able to eat whatever they want. It's true, you can eat whatever you want, just remember you can't just eat whatever and get the results you want. The interesting thing, is that the person who is eating nutrient-rich, will say the same thing. Why do they eat what they eat, "because it tastes good". No eating style can be successful if it's not great tasting and Nutrient Rich Healthy Eating is GREAT TASTING, just wait until you see the Nutrient Rich Food and Recipe Videos!

The problem is, people fear change, and they are also scared to experience a little discomfort, which is why they are locked into their current way of eating. They are addicted to toxic foods, so much so, that the primary benefit of great tasting foods that are "healthy" (which is how we should really refer to nutrient-rich foods), which are rich in phytochemicals and antioxidants, becomes a negative (at least in terms of how you feel) in the short term.

In other words, phytochemical-rich foods, clean you out. They actually turn on your immune system. If you eat a nutrient rich foods and you don't feel good, then you haven't been eating Nutrient Rich for long. It's amazing at how powerful the nutrients in the broccoli really are, when they are not overwhelmed by the pastry and can do their work; and chances are, if you're diet is full of calorie-rich pastries, you're not getting much broccoli anyway, broccoli especially prepared The Nutrient Rich Way is a great tasting food. You'll see. It's just the tip of the ice burg! 

Nutrient Rich Healthy Eating for Life, requires desire like anything else, but don't confuse desire for willpower.

Willpower is needed when something requires "efforting", when it's neither simple or easy, or uncomfortable etc. And I would be lying if I said that making the Switch to Rich did not require at least some will power at the start. Not because it's hard, but because you have to clean out from your previous usual diet first, to get the full benefit. You have to somewhat readjust your taste buds, and develop the desire for great tasting foods that are now healthy, not toxic.

Desire is natural.

Developing desire is a transition and if you want to desire nutrient-rich healthy eating for life where 1) eating to live more successfully, 2) optimally healthy, 3) at or near your ideal weight... all while 4) aging slower and looking younger and 5) maximize your longevity is your new normal then you will need to face at least some uncomfortable changes at the start. The rewards are beyond worth it.

Consider it a badge of honor once you get through the transition. 

You'll be able to make the Switch to Rich pretty quickly, but there is a reason why people just don't eat more fruits and vegetables and all of a sudden they are eating healthy for life. There is a transition involved and without inspiration, education and support, the majority of people will just keep on keeping on, eating the same nutrient poor diet they are used to and they'll tell you every story under the sun why they can't; that's what we do when we are addicted to stuff, like nutrient poor foods; we just make excuses! 

I promise you, if you follow our guidance here at nutrientrich.com, healthy eating (not dieting) will be your way of life and you will get ALL the benefits! 

Stay tuned to Nutrient Rich: Healthy Eating for Life, the Inbox Lifestyle Magazine that will be sent to you throughout week that will help you improve your lifestyle!

I assure you, you will receive only quality information, product and service offers from our world class panel of experts who will help you understand how to eat healthy for life!

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Right now, we say 80% of our population is overweight.  I say 90% sometimes because if I exclude people who smoke cigarettes which is about 10% and people who acquire diseases keeping them thin which is about 3% or 4%, then we’re close to like, I don’t know, more than 90% of the population has to be considered overweight.  So that immediately wipes them out of the potential for living a long life where they reach their elder years and maintain an excellent health.

So one thing we have to do, we certainly have to control overeating.  We have to control hunger as a means of living a long time because long-lived people do not overeat and don’t stuff themselves.  They’re not addicted to the food.  They don’t really have any strong addictions in like they don’t have a lot of alcohol consumption but a little of alcohol consumption is possible.  They can’t eat a load of junk food but a little as possible to still survive.  In other words, they’re not really addicted to any strong food to be relatively thin. In the Eat to Live book and my writings on the website, we talk about controlling hunger.  The 3-dimensional model takes into account calories of food, the volume of the food which includes fiber volume and, of course, the nutrient density of the food.  Any diet style or nutritional advice that doesn’t take into account those 3 dimensions of hunger isn’t quite giving you the optimal ability, opportunity to control your hunger and to maintain an optimal weight.

In other words, we have to consider all those variables.  Most diets just control calories.  They just try to count portion sizes, reduce calories and don't control for volume and nutrient intake, which leaves you craving and feeling ill all the time if you don’t constantly eat food. 

But there are some diets out there which just try to teach you to eat volume but they don’t control the nutrients.  They didn’t understand that the body needs sufficient amounts of nutrients, especially antioxidants, biochemicals that fuel the detoxification mechanism of the body.  And without a sufficient volume of those nutrients, our body maintains a high level of toxic waste products that then lead to withdrawal-like symptoms or so-called hypoglycemic sensations when you’re not eating food because your body is always borderline malnourished.

So one thing that the nutrient rich diet style and this lifestyle I recommend teaches is that nutrient density, nutrient per calorie density is critically important.  That’s one thing that makes it stand out from other nutritional advices - that it recognizes that the nutrient per calorie density of food is something we have to consider when looking to design a diet for optimal health.  Because as we get a diet that’s higher in nutrients, we need more foods that have a high nutrient per calorie density that supplies us with a large amount of volume and a large amount of nutrients which make us demand accordingly less calories and prevents overeating. 

At the same time that high nutrient density diet which prevents us from overeating, at the same time supplies us with a high level of phytochemicals and antioxidants that are necessary to survive a long time in our toxic world.  We don’t live in the same world that was around here 2000 or 5000 years ago.  We live in a more toxic world today and we particularly need a diet rich in foods that maximally fuel the body’s detoxification and self-reparative mechanisms.  And that diet of course has to be high in those phytonutrients, which are in natural food, especially green vegetables, various fruits, beans, seeds and other high nutrient foods that scientists have discovered are rich in those phytonutrients and antioxidants.

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Dr. Fuhrman is a New York Times best-selling author, nutritional researcher and board certified family physician specializing in nutritional medicine.  Learn more by visiting his informative website at DrFuhrman.com.

John Allen Mollenhauer is the founder of nutrientrich.com a Nutritional Education Trainer, and leading authority on Performance Lifestyle, which teaches people how to live a healthy lifestyle successfully and develop Your Lifestyle to better achieve your goals.

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I am pleased to announce the new edition of Eat to Live - The Amazing Nutrient Rich Program for Fast and Sustainable Weight Loss - the gold standard for healthy eating, that is available now before it launches in January in book stores.

This book inspired the Nutrient Rich revolution - the new trend in eating for health, performance and natural weight loss.

Dr. Fuhrman is the leader in nutritional education, and if you are someone who wants to really learn how to get started eating a nutrient rich diet, then this book is required reading.

After years of learning lots of about nutrition, including years of hanging around and working with Dr Fuhrman in his formative stages, it was the first edition of this book that got me started eating right!
Yes, I mean right!

Everyone thinks they are eating right. But in reality and at the risk of sounding idealistic or non inclusive, there is only one way to eat right and that is "the Nutrient Rich way".
Of course, the Nutrient Rich way, will show up differently for everyone depending on where they are in the process of transitioning from their once nutrient poor diet; but the nutrient rich way is sound and will prevent you from falling into one diet trap after another.

To eat the Nutrient Rich way successfully, you need knowledge, that is based on the right principles, starting with the nutrient density of the food you are eating.

You will start eating right when you read this book.

The new Eat To Live includes:

• Updated scientific research supporting Dr. Fuhrman's revolutionary six-week plan and a brand new chapter highlighting Dr. Fuhrman's discovery of how enhancing nutrient intake lessens hunger, removes food addiction, enables appetite control and leads to a favorable weight. This new chapter provides novel and important insights into sustained weight loss. It explains how and why eating the wrong foods causes addictive withdrawal symptoms (toxic hunger) and the desire to over consume calories.

Other updates include:

• New recipes and meal ideas

• Inspiring success stories from people who have used the program to lose shockingly large amounts of weight and recover from life-threatening illnesses

This easy-to-follow, nutritionally sound diet can help anyone shed pounds quickly-and keep them off.

If you have struggled with health or weight issues in the past, Eat To Live will help you control your health destiny.

It is required reading if you are going to eat in a Nutrient Rich way and be successful.

Makes a great gift for the Holidays! Give the gift of health!
Buy now at DrFuhrman.com

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Amazing Conference!

I just finished listening to Joel Fuhrman M.D., the world leader in nutritional education, and besting selling author of Eat to Live - The Amazing "Nutrient Rich" Plan for Fast and Sustainable Weight Loss!, along with other books like Disease Proof Your Child, Eat for Health... to learn more about Dr Fuhrman Products, you can discover them here.

He was speaking at the speaking at the World Preservation Foundation conference at the House of Parliament on Wednesday, Today, November 3rd. The conference was web cast here, live, in its entirety. I think it was an amazing opportunity for Dr Fuhrman to have such an amazing forum to share simply the most powerful nutritional education available to so many people.

I remember it was only a few years ago, where we in this movement promoting to transition to a plant based diet, or a high nutrient density "nutrient rich" diet, could barely get heard. Today, that is changing as not only do the worlds people need to preserve themselves in a healthy state, but we are fighting to nurse the world itself back to a state of health.

What we eat has a huge impact on this and that's why Dr. Fuhrman was was talking at the World Preservation Foundation.

Here were a few of his messages and the messages from the conference.

"You can't get overweight if you area eating within the range of true hunger"

"Nobody needs to die of a heart attack."

"We've evolved into a society where medication has absolved all our responsibility only to cover up the very diet that causes the problem!"

"Modern nutritional science... the world has entered a new realm of nutritional science."

"What if people wanted this information, what if you could not only control diabetes, but eliminate diseases such as heart disease diabetes and cancer!"

One of the most powerful messages he sent was this...

"We are currently living in a chronic anabolic state, eating and digesting food. Life is a balance of both the anabolic and the catabolic phase which is detoxification. If you are eating a diet that is toxic or a nutrient poor or low nutrient density diet, then the minute your body (which is always trending towards health) starts to detoxify you will feel sick.

That doesn't happen when you are eating a healthy diet and are eating within the range of true hungry.

This was a powerful conference, Congratulations to Dr Fuhrman on the world stage!

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Yes, it's practically becoming a restaurant; pretty cool to have a selection the size of Whole Foods Market when you go to eat. You don't have a waiter, but you can literally eat whatever you want!

If you are foodies like us, really interested in learning how to shop, prepare, organize and eat out the Nutrient Rich whole foods way, then going to eat at a place like Whole Foods, when you are not necessarily looking for a fine dining experience but just want an interesting and exciting place to eat, is incredible.

We love hunting (foraging) up and down the isles for new and cool products, and developments and insights into what's happening in the word of food and nutrition.

Well, this last trip was especially exciting as Whole Foods implemented a salad bar isle, (amongst their many) that is completely natural, meaning no oil added; just whole foods, that are plant strong, with healthy fats, that are nutrient dense.

The unhealthy fats (oils) on the salad ingredients was always a bone of contention many people had with whole foods salad bars, as they were laden with oil. For those who eat clean, you don't want oil saturated into your greens...

Anyway that has all changed since John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, whom I had breakfast and a jog with 5 weeks ago at Dr. Fuhrman's Health Getaway, rolled out the Health Starts Here initiative what added to our Whole Foods Adventure.

As we were walking around the store, we could see all the new developments that we heard him speak of as "coming" at the Health Getaway. I was surprised at how fast they have been implemented, but then, thinking about the fact that produce sales have increased over 1000% since Dr. Fuhrman's ANDI (Aggregate Nutrient Density Index) Food Scores have been placed around the store informing consumers about the nutrient "ranking" of the foods they are eating (very similar to what we do in The Food Class System, only more detailed) it's likely they were extra motivated.

What was so incredible, was to see the posse of professionals I have been growing and developing with for nearly 20 years, occupying such a front and center position in one of the most well known and fastest growing grocery stores in America. Given there are countless nutritional camps out there, it's good to be part of a group of people who are leading the nutrient rich food revolution.

You can see books by Joel Fuhrman M.D. - Eat to Live, T Colin Campbell - The China Study, Caldwell Esselstyn - Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, and John McDougall - The McDougall Plan, and Rip Esselstyn, The Engine 2 Diet right there on top of the salad bar aisle.  You can also find their market leading books all over the book store with special Kiosks.

At the Health Starts Here Salad Bar at Whole Foods

I'm at once gloating a little to know that the market as a whole see's the work of these leaders as the most sensible, powerful and practical nutritional advise around, but also to know that each is promoting the idea of eating high nutrient, nutrient dense or nutrient rich foods.

There is a reason why eating nutrient rich foods is the most successful way to eat for health, performance and natural weight loss.

Eating Nutrient Rich is simple, it's based on empirically sound data, meets your bodies nutritional needs, is clean, green, good for the planet, doesn't clog your arteries, no animals die, no blood shed, great tasting, great for the economy of new and improved healthy nutrient rich foods, fun to market... shall I keep going?

We were so excited to see this and the food was amazing. I put together a salad that was off the charts. You can see it to the right. it was overflowing the box!

Rosie, has better control than me when it comes to buffets.

The Health Starts Here Whole Food Adventure was allot of fun and I highly recommend you try it sometime. We've been around a long time and we always learn new things.

Get free of the diet traps, and start eating Nutrient Rich Today!

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