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Develop a “New Normal” Healthy Eating Style You Can Call Your Own

John Allen Mollenhauer — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:43:11 +0000

nutrientrich.com provides the simplest and

most direct path to healthy eating and success!

There is a new voice in the nutrition community—and it is a booming one! John Allen Mollenhauer, a leading proponent of the More Plant-Based Nutrient Rich^® Approach to nutrient rich healthy eating, is proud to announce the re-launch of nutrientrich.com, a robust website chock full of goodies including The Complete Nutrient Rich^® Healthy Eating Plan and Support System that enables people to make “the Switch” from nutrient-poor unhealthy eating to the great-tasting “nutrient-rich” healthy eating style that is growing in popularity. The site also offers Mollenhauer’s Switch to Rich Digest, a Blog of well-written and researched relevant articles and current event commentary, on this revolutionary new eating style; a delicious and nutritious line of raw, whole, organic super food nutrition products at The Rezealiant Living Store; a comprehensive support system; and a healthy Recipe Database that is second to none! It is the culmination of his life’s work—and it shows! John Allen has wrapped it all up into the simplest and most direct path to success!

The beauty of the nutrient-rich way of eating and living is that you can eat Vegetarian or Vegan or not, gluten-free or not, organic or not, low calorie or not, low fat or not, and even low-carb or not--and still be eating the Nutrient Rich Way. It is an eating style that starts with optimizing the foods and meals you eat for nutrient density, variety, volume and great taste, free of addictive substance so you eat the right amount of calories for you, when you are truly hungry.

It is based on the emerging body of nutritional research that demonstrates the healing powers of higher-micro-nutrient per-calorie foods that detoxify the body, promote natural weight loss, dramatically improve health, reverse disease, and promote slower aging, a younger look and a longer life.

This is not a one-diet-fits-all approach; rather, nutrient-rich healthy eating is a normal and natural way to eat that is designed to meet all of your needs, all the time, including Great Taste!

“This is not just a website—it is a complete healthy eating system that starts delivering the minute you subscribe,” states Mollenhauer, a nutrition education trainer and performance lifestyle coach.

When people enter the site, they are invited to download a very revealing guide called, Wow, I Thought I Was Eating Healthy! Have You Tricked Yourself into ‘Believing’ You’re Eating a Healthy Diet? A must read, as it illuminates the 9 ‘healthier’ diet tactics that are causing us to gain weight, drain our energy and age faster.

After reading this insightful Guide, users are then invited to take a Personal Diet Quality (PDQ) Assessment, which provides them with a Nutrient Rich^® Healthy Eating Score, and recommendations for improvement, as well as a fun icon that inspires users to take the way they eat to a whole new level.

Next they get The Nutrient Rich Healthy Eating Plan, which is available in printed and digital formats including .pdf, and .epub and .noki for Ipad, Nook and Kindle ereaders, etc., and consists of:

Step 1: Switch to Rich—Nutrient Rich^®Healthy Eating
Step 2: Shop, Organize, Prepare & Eat Out The Nutrient Rich^® Way
Step 3: Simple, Quick & Easy^™Nutrient Rich^® Recipes (created by Chef Ramses Bravo)
Step 4: How to Lose Weight the Nutrient Rich^® Way!

The Plan also comes coupled with an extensive Membership Site, which includes online and phone support, a Member Forum, Training and Q&A Calls, with John Allen, and much, much more, as well as a free 300-gram, 30-day supply of Rezealiant "Living Feast" —the great-tasting, whole food, nutrient-rich low-calorie way to fill up, and also speed up body detoxification and natural weight loss!

After many years of being on the path of improving his eating and overall lifestyle, while developing a new worldview on how to live a healthy lifestyle successfully, and be better able to achieve your goals, known as Performance Lifestyle^®, John Allen wanted to establish a new standard of eating. Naturally, he arrived at eating nutrient rich because, as John Allen says, “All paths of dietary practice eventually lead to nutrient-rich healthy eating.”

Mentored early on, by Joel Fuhrman, MD, a leading physician and high-nutrient density nutrition researcher, John Allen became a consummate student on the subject and ultimately launched nutrientrich.com, and was one of the first in the world to begin defining how to eat in a nutrient-rich way.

John’s approach is fresh, modern and to the point. His clear and direct message fully explains what it means to eat "nutrient rich"—the buzz term for healthy eating that we have been hearing so much about these days, which is based on the cornerstone of nutrition called, "nutrient density.”

Mollenhauer says, “When I first caught wind of this idea, I didn’t approach it from a weight loss-only or an "eating healthier" motivation because, as a former body-builder, I had already traveled those paths and knew they didn’t provide sustainable results. Rather, I wanted to find the healthiest and most successful way to eat, and make that ‘The New Normal’ for people who were clearly suffering from hidden lifestyle challenges that were holding them back—the biggest of which, was how they were eating!”

And thanks to his tireless work this healthy eating style is finally being discovered by a whole new generation of people! However, John Allen admits that he did not discover this eating style all on his own and clearly acknowledges that The Nutrient Rich^® Healthy Eating Style and Plan were developed on the shoulders of giants—all of whom cleared the way by heroically doing the long-term studies, clinical work and research on plant-based nutrition and lifestyle intervention, as the way to live disease free. Throughout his career, John Allen has had the leadership and mentoring of many of these leading health and performance professionals, several of whom he now calls close friends, and many of whom are members of The Lifestyle Health and Science Advisory at nutrientrich.com. John simply mined all of the information and ideas he could find, taking the best of the best to create The Complete Nutrient Rich^® Healthy Eating Plan and Lifestyle Support System—the most direct path to success.

Nutrient-Rich eating is The Great-Tasting Healthy Way to Eat that delivers what he has coined as The 7 Success Results Every Body Wants—detoxification, natural weight loss, optimized health and performance, reversal of life-style induced diseases (being overweight, heart disease, and diabetes, etc.), slower aging, looking younger and maximized longevity.

“Eating nutrient rich is not a fad—once you discover it, you can’t go back,” adds Mollenhauer, CEO, Nutrient Rich Life., Inc.

"I can only imagine starting from this place when I began my search for the healthiest and most successful way to eat,” says John Allen, with a smile.

John Allen Mollenhauer invites the public to check out http://nutrientrich.com, where they can take their time in understanding this amazing new eating style, by reading and discovering their own paths to Nutrient Rich^® Healthy Eating!

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Do You Have a Nutrient Rich Body? Here Are 10 Simple Ways to Know If You Don't...

Nutrient Rich — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 19:02:51 +0000

Do You Have a Nutrient-Rich Body?

This article discusses ten simple ways to know if you don't yet have a nutrient-rich, healthy body and what you need to do to develop one.

Many of us do not get all the nutrients the body needs to stay healthy. Our diets can be overwhelmed with calories - protein, carbohydrate and fat, and the wrong sources for all three, which are lacking in the essential vitamins and minerals, fiber and phytochemicals we need for the body to function right.

Yes, you read that right, the body does not function right, if you don't have a body rich with immune system-supporting, detoxifying and hunger-satisfying micro-nutrients, which are not present in any significant amount in animal products and refined foods.

Most of us are consuming foods that have few positive benefits to health and have many negative consequences, even though they may promote rapid growth, and taste satisfaction.

The question is, how do we know if we are getting all the nutrients we need?

These ten circumstances will let you know that your body is nutrient poor and not getting all of it's nutrient needs met -- those nutrients that you are aware of, aren't aware of, and have yet to be discovered, resulting in an overall state of health is low.

An annual visit to the nutritionally-oriented doctor who focuses on natural methods, for an overall health check can also help you determine where on the scale of health you are at.

10 Ways To Know If You DO NOT Have a Nutrient Rich Body

You are hungry all the time, even after you are full.
You are getting headaches and other symptoms when you don't eat, for more than a short period of time, maybe a few hours.
Strong cravings are the reason you are eating.
Unless you are eating animal protein, regularly, you feel weak and foggy.
You are eating more than 10-20% of your calories from animal and refined foods, and only small amounts of produce.
You have to eat 3-5 times per days or else you don't feel good.
If you need to eat breakfast the minute you wake up, due to reasons other than *true hunger, you know don't have a nutrient-rich body.
You are getting sick regularly, with strong, longer-lasting colds, the flu, etc.
You know you don't have a nutrient-rich body, if the minute you eat a carbohydrate, natural or not, you gain weight.
You react with weird faces when you see someone drinking a green smoothie!

* A pleasurable sensation that is experienced in the throat and mouth.

If you are experiencing any of the above, your body is nutrient poor. Period.

What do you need to do to develop a nutrient rich body? It's simple, you need to make the Switch to Rich - nutrient rich healthy eating that is optimized for nutrient density, variety, volume and great taste, free of addictive substances, so that you can eat the right amount of calories for you, when you are hungry; and be so satisfied, you are able escape the diet traps forever!

Building a nutrient-rich body, means the end of the vicious cycle of eating nutrient poor, dieting, weight gain and long-term health issues!

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A Really Good Reason To Eat 10% or Less Animal Products!

Nutrient Rich — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:05:27 +0000

color:#002002">Today, I read an article in the Huffington Post, called, Horse Meat Inspection Ban Lifted In The U.S. (horse meat consumption) and I was shocked.

It is a proven fact that consuming animal protein causes cancer, yet we keep on eating it. And now, to top that off, our government is trying to add yet another cancer-causing protein to people’s menus—horses, which are beloved pets.”

“What’s next—dogs and cats? Warm feelings for pets aside, no one should be eating horse meat!”

The World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated that dietary factors are associated with at least 30% of all cancers in developed countries and up to 20% in developing countries. One of the biggest dietary culprits they uncovered was animal-derived foods [1, 2-7]. In fact, high meat intake has been estimated to increase your overall cancer risk by 17%, while high saturated fat intake increases your cancer risk by 19% [8].

It is a fact that throughout our lives we will all have cancer cells appear in our bodies. However, not everyone develops cancer, and usually this comes down to diet [1]. Animal proteins like meat, dairy, and eggs alter hormone levels in the body, cause inflammation, promote cell growth and tumor development, and make the body more acidic [2, 8-13]. All these changes "feed" the cancer cells and make them stronger. To make matters worse, as meat is cooked at high temperatures, potentially dangerous chemicals are produced. For example, heterocyclic amines (HCAs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) can initiate the cancer process [14-20], while advanced glycation end products (AGEs) play an important role in the development and progression of atherosclerosis, diabetes, aging, and chronic renal failure [21-22].

Although meat is often labeled the major culprit in cancers of the esophagus, lung, pancreas, stomach, colon, breast, and prostate, research has shown that other animal proteins, such as the casein found in milk, can promote cancer development as well. A 2007 study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reported that the consumption of dairy products affects the biological pathways associated with cancer development and spread [23]. After following participants for 65 years, the researchers discovered that a diet rich in dairy products during childhood nearly tripled the risk of colorectal cancer in adulthood.

More than 200 studies have shown that a diet based on fruits, vegetables, beans/legumes, raw nuts and seeds, and whole grains (as well as the countless meals and menus you can derive from these foods) provides significant protection against many different types of cancer. People with the highest consumption of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains have about half the risk of developing cancer as those who eat a more animal-based diet [24-27]. Based on the research of Dr. Campbell in the Cornell UniversityChina Study, the ideal diet should be at least 90% plant-based foods and less than 10% animal-based foods [1].

Dr. Campbell based his initial research on a preliminary study in which two groups of rats (one fed a 5% protein diet and one fed a 20% protein diet) were given cancer-causing aflatoxin. While every single rat in the 20% protein diet group developed liver cancer or pre-cancerous lesions, nothing happened to a single rat in the 5% protein group. Campbell conducted a similar study but used the milk protein casein to determine whether all animal proteins acted as cancer promoters. Like in the previous study, Campbell divided his rats into a 20% casein diet and a 5% casein diet and then exposed the rats to aflatoxin. His results supported the earlier research, and he reported that adjusting an organism’s protein intake could turn cancer promotion on and off like a switch [1]. Proteins derived from plants, however, did not have the same cancer-promoting effects.

Many experts believe that this is due to the nutrient-rich nature of plant-based foods. Fruits and vegetables do not promote inflammation in the body, are rich in antioxidants that can neutralize cancer-causing free radicals, and do not contain bad fats such as saturated fat, trans- fat, or dietary cholesterol, which the body does not need to get from dietary sources. Plant-based foods also contain high amounts of fiber. Fiber acts like a filter in your digestive system, effectively removing cancer-causing substances from your colon. Fiber is also food for bacteria that thrive in your intestine, favoring the ones that reduce the production of cancer-causing acids.

color:black">The health-boosting properties of a nutrient-rich, plant-based diet have also been shown to benefit people who have already developed cancer. A 2006 study showed that, in general, men with prostate cancer who avoided animal products reduced their PSA levels, which meant that their cancer was not advancing and may actually have been diminishing [28]. However, the cancer continued to worsen in the men who made no dietary changes. Such dietary changes were also shown to reduce the recurrence risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women by about 25% [29].

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Plant Based, Nutrient-Rich Healthy Eating vs Vegetarian and other Half-Baked Healthy Diets

Nutrient Rich — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:43:26 +0000

The word really isn't "versus", but "compared to" doesn't make as punctual or distinctive an article title.

27 years ago, I changed my diet from the Standard American Diet "SAD" to a healthier diet and one that would help me lose weight. Was it nutrient-rich? No, not really, but it was most certainly closer to nutrient-rich healthy eating than ever before.

Today, looking back to that time, I would have called myself, a weight loss only "dieter". I really wasn't thinking health, performance or longevity; All that mattered was being as lean as possible as a competitive bodybuilder, and having as little fat on my body. And, I was willing do whatever it took to to lose body fat.

My diet consisted (off season not withstanding) of the typical fitness diet that you learn about in all the muscle and fitness magazines, such as:

Chicken, fish
A complex carbohydrate
Side of vegetables

When not dieting, I would go right back to the SAD.

After a few years of eating that way, I learned about the detrimental effects of eating animal products and became a vegetarian, actually vegan. I had tired of the rigors of being a bodybuilder, and being basically a yo yo "dieter" for that matter, and learned that simple healthy eating combined with an active lifestyle, would enable me to stay lean with much less effort, so I made the switch to a healthier diet.

I didn't really know what healthy eating really meant, but not eating animal products seemed like a great place to start.

Eventually, no longer consuming animal products was not the issue. I was all the healthier for it, but after some very impressive initial results moving to a healthier diet, over time, I began to gain weight. Not because I wasn't eating animal products, but because I was now eating "healthier" foods that weren't genuinely healthy.

In retrospect, I started eating a half baked healthy diet, not quite the standard American diet, but now just a healthier version of it and devoid of dieting. Truth is, pinning my weight gain all on my diet would be misleading. I was also getting older, more focused on work, less on working out, and expending immense amounts of personal energy. By the time I realized that I was gaining weight there were some bigger issues at play, albeit the quality of the food I was eating was a big one.

The food issue was that I was eating too much and eating foods that also contained too much added sodium, sugar, oil and other chemicals that were never supposed to be in my body to begin with.

Too much stress + low personal energy + the overconsumption of "healthy" foods laden with added sugar, salt, oil and chemicals = weight gain, even if you are working out.

Which leads me to the focus of this article.

After years of correcting my course, aligning and improving my lifestyle for balance and health, and having traveled the path from the standard American diet, to weight loss only dieting and then spending years in the realm eating healthier as a vegetarian and vegan, where I was eating many foods that were high in added sodium, oil, sugar, cooked in various ways that did not protect the nutrient quality; I finally realized the difference between plant-based, nutrient rich healthy eating, and the world of half-baked healthy diets.

The difference between half baked healthy diets (which can include the idea of going vegetarian or vegan) that focus in on only one aspect of healthy eating (and at times make more out of it than it needs to be), and nutrient-rich healthy eating is this:

When you are engaged in eating nutrient-rich, you are more a "nutritarian" than a "vegetarian", meaning; you seek out foods that are the most rich in nutrients, do not contain those substances that your body does not need like added sodium, oils and sugar, saturated fats, cholesterol etc, at least 90% of the time or more. You also aim to eat nutrient-rich foods in a way that enable you eat the most volume for the least amount of calories, depending on your needs, and in great tasting ways!

Free from all the problems that are created from half baked healthy diets that are most certainly healthier as compared to weight loss only diets (in most cases), and the standard American diet, but not the healthiest way to eat by a long shot; nutrient rich healthy eating shows how to eat for health.

Healthy eating has many definitions, such as gluten free, low glyemic, vegetarian, vegan, etc... but once you start eating "nutrient rich", healthy eating gets defined and the truth is, you don't even need to be vegan or vegetarian if you don't want to, or want to maintain a near vegan diet where you eat small amount of animal products for any of a variety of reasons.

Eating is not a religion, at least not the way we promote it hear at nutrientrich.com. Although when each of us makes decisions about our eating style, there are many things that get factored in, in addition to the eating style itself, like protecting animals and the environment. Anybody eating today who is not factoring these two issues in, is not helping the planet and we all know it's in a state of crisis. So keep this in mind.

But for the sake of this article, I simply want to point out the that there is a big difference in terms of health, weight and personal performance, when you begin making the switch from your previous usual standard American diet, weight loss only diet, or half baked healthy diet, where you may not be eating animal foods, but are still including vast amounts of salt, refined sugars, and oils, which is not a genuinely healthy diet.

A nutrient rich eating style can be vegan, but not all vegan eating styles are nutrient rich.

I learned this recently while out on the road traveling. I have been traveling to several of my most cherished healthy lifestyle conferences where I have many good friends and associates also promoting healthy eating. Interestingly, these are conferences that are often organized around the concept of eating vegan or vegetarian. Since not eating animal foods leads to many other changes in the diet and is such an impact full decision personally and environmentally, the vegan and vegetarian community is large and the reason why many conferences appeal to people making this change.

I go to these conferences because I love this community, its a big part of where I learned how to eat healthy and the information is fantastic. But one thing I have learned. After a few years away from these conferences, while I was completing a book, a time during which I had made the switch to nutrient rich healthy eating; nutrient rich healthy eating is healthier than simply not eating meat or eating plant based.

Not eating meat may be one aspect of plant based healthy eating style, but there are many more, including how you organize your food pyramid, whether or not you eat predominantly vegetable based or starch based, the added salt, oil and sugar content of the foods you are eating, how the food is prepared, whether or not yea eat when you are hungry and more...

I recently ran a test (something I regularly do to see how my body reacts) by eating foods that were simply vegan and paying less attention to some of the attributes above, just to see what would happen and exercise some some other skills of dietary flexibility which are good to have in social situations and when traveling in a world where you can't often meet your ideal preferences. The result, was weight gain, swollen lips, acute colds, and mild headaches.

Moral of the story?

Once you start eating for health (a genuinely nutrient rich healthy eating diet style) going backwards is not easy or even as pleasure able as you might think. Although I have enjoyed all the foods I've eaten recently, I need no dicipline to clean up my act and get back to the healthiest eating style available: nutrient-rich.

This is not a matter of semantics. It's a matter of mindset and whether or not you are actually eating for healthy, or simply eating healthier. Healthier is good, genuinely healthy is best.

Learn how to eat nutrient-rich in the greatest tasting ways and you will have learned healthy eating for life.

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Forks Over Knives Premier in NYC

Nutrient Rich — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:10:29 +0000

Last night over 500 people descended on the Sunrise Theater in New York City to see the NY Premier of Forks Over Knives, the new movie that is inspiring audiences all over the US and abroad to consider, if not make the switch to a whole foods, plant based, nutrient rich diet. At the Premier, we all mingled for a few hours around some incredible plant based nutrient roods at the Whole Foods in the Bowery section of NYC and most everyone in the room was inspired to learn how to start eating healthy.

No one was disappointed!

FORKS OVER KNIVES examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the so-called “diseases of affluence” that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed (refined) foods. The major storyline in the film traces the personal journeys of a pair of pioneering yet under-appreciated researchers, Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn. Read More...

I should emphasize the under-appreciation for these two research and medical professionals and down right fine people. The reason is simple; what they are saying is true but just not good for the "HUGE inter-connected, money-driven “Med-Pharma-USDA-Academia-Food-Insurance-Media system” which my new friend and associate Jim Hicks, talks about in his new book Healthy Eating, Healthy World. His research indicates that 70 to 80% of our health care dollars ($2 trillion of them) are driven by what we eat — our toxic western diet. (You can read about all of the above in Chapter 8 of his book.)

Personally, I have a great deal of experience with both Dr's having assembled The Top 12 Findings of The China Study with the Campbells (Father and Son) who wrote this hugely successful book revealing the relationship between diet (lifestyle) weight loss and long term health, and having learned from and promoted Dr. Esselstyn's work for years. He is the author of Preventing and Reversing Heart Disease and a long time senior medical officer at The Cleveland Clinic.

These gentleman are major players in the plant based food movement now in the later half of their careers, both of which ironically began promoting or serving the effects of animal based diets. They were major players in their fields even before the switch to plant based nutrient rich foods began and made the switch themselves when they realized that animal based diets also rich in refined and process foods, causes disease.

These days, T Colin Campbell PhD and Caldwell Esselstyn MD have become "very" well known as President Clinton recently mentioned their names in a viral CNN interview with Wolf Blitzer, as he explained his own transition to a plant based diet to finally resolve his own heart disease.

The mass movement to whole foods, plant based, nutrient rich diets, is driven by one simple reality,'calorie rich / nutrient poor foods cause "lifestyle induced" diseases like heart disease and shorten your life plan. That is the main reason why the switch to a diet based predominantly on nutrient rich foods is on for so many people.

While at the event, I met up with Rip Esselstyn, son of Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, who is now becoming quite well known as the author of the Engine 2 Diet, a plant based, or should I say "plant strong" diet, that he put together while working in an Austin, TX fire department that helped his fellow firefighters lose weight, lower their cholesterol, and prevent disease. A former professional IronMan athlete, Rip has been eating a plant based diet for over 25 years now (even while training as an athlete) and had some amazing information to share.

He said "I switched to plant based diet so that I could get an performance edge".

Don't believe the hype when people tell you, you should be running your body on nutrient poor animal protein and saturated fat with a side dish of nutrient rich vegetables anymore, when a true nutrient rich diet is the way to go.

I also caught up with with Dr Pam Popper of The Wellness Forum, in Columbus Ohio; she and Rip Esselstyn were conducting a plant strong Education Immersion at Whole Foods. We talked about having never seen the switch to plant based nutrient rich foods be so strong, and how the movement is happening in an accelerated fashion now in part because of movies like Forks Over Knives. A movie like this is all the more powerful now having decades of amazing data and insights, like those from Dr's Esselstyn and Campbell's work, to convey in the cinema. Gone are the days of passion and principle alone; today, plant based diets are proven with sound science.

Look for a location near you and watch this movie!

Forks Over Knives is rich in incredible insights about healthy eating and it will inspire you when you see how everyday people right off the street are making incredible transformations in their health, weight and outlook because they are no longer eating foods that cause disease and are learning how to make the switch to eating nutrient rich healthy foods.

You too will be shocked and awed by how incredibly tasty nutrient rich foods really are, and wonder why you haven't been eating plant based nutrient Rich, your entire life!

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True Hunger - Are you Eating Less of More or More of Less?

Nutrient Rich — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:38:28 +0000

Warning: this post may be a real mind twister, but hang in there.

When I first launched Nutrient Rich.com in 2005, our motto was "eat better, not less". The idea was simple, the better you eat, the less you need to eat.

That original tag line seemed simple; however, it also opened up many dynamics and raised many questions.

For instance, the biggest question was; can you eat unlimited amounts of plant based, whole, nutrient rich foods?

Well, the answer to that question is NO!

At first maybe, when you first begin your transition from nutrient poor eating to Nutrient Rich, healthy eating it may seem like you can and that you should. But then, something changes. The more you eat nutrient rich, the more your body becomes nutrient rich and then you simply don't need as much food.

The law of quality selection kicks in.

Believe me, that was a difficult lesson for me to learn especially since I was used to eating so much food in my earlier days as a bodybuilder, in the off season that is

Over the years we continued to talk about eating better, not less, a play on "taste great, less filling" slogan from the famed Miller Beer commercials but we have evolved in our thinking as we realized that it's not as simple to just say "eat better, not less". It's probably one reason why we brand Nutrient Rich as the next level in healthy eating, because there are so many concepts to learn when it comes to Nutrient Rich versus the "better" but often still nutrient poor way of eating that most people do.

So in this post I'm going to share a few more thoughts on the subject.

Are you eating less of more, or more of less?

If you find yourself eating less of more, you are eating a Nutrient Rich diet. If you find yourself eating more of less, you are are eating a nutrient poor diet or a diet that is nutrient barren.You can learn more about The Food Class System here.

Eating "Less" is only possible when you are eating nutrient rich food.

Eating "More" is driven by taking in less nutrients, nutrient poor foods, and needing to eat more to get more nutrients; unless you are merely eating for stress or recreation which is a different subject.

conversely,

More nutrients equals nutrient rich foods, and less nutrient equals nutrient poor foods.

So you can see, depending on what "more or less" is attached to, it creates a converse dynamic.

The more nutrient rich foods you eat, the less you need to eat. You don't have focus on eating less, it will happen naturally. This is not possible when you eat a nutrient poor diet, unless you require that chronic feeling of hunger that let's people know they are dieting. Those people only feel like they are doing something when they feel hungry all the time.

When you are eating a nutrient rich diet you don't have a chronic feeling of hunger - you just aren't hungry in the same way. I found that I only experience true hunger, a term that Dr. Fuhrman sourced, after I haven't eaten for a while, or after prolonged physical activity where my immediately accessible nutrient reserves are depleted.

The less I ate, "naturally", not "proactively", the more I could experience true hunger.

The more I ate of less, (nutrient poor) or for the wrong reasons, the less I could experience true hunger.

Here are two reasons:

Nutrient poor foods bring with them a withdrawal factor, headaches etc. that are often confused as "true hunger". This is because nutrient poor foods are not just nutrient poor from what they don't contain. They are nutrient poor because of what they do contain that the body does not need.
Living in a chronically anabolic state (meaning you are always eating and keeping the bodies energy in a position where it can rarely focus on digestion, assimilation and utilization) is not a good thing.It's also probably the biggest detractor from slower aging and longevity. Just ask the Calorie Restriction advocates.
- Note: as you may have noticed, I'm not a fan of calorie restriction. I believe that proactive restriction of calories leads to the wrong mindset and I have seen many a CR (calorie restriction) advocates take it way to far. This is one case where more can be less in the wrong kind of way.

You can over eat with more of less and when you eat more of more nutrient rich foods for the wrong reasons and over "nutrify" the body that only ends up leading to excess FAT!

It's very important for you to understand true hunger. Once you do, you will start making the right decisions that are best for your PerformanceLifestyle.

I told you this post might be a mind twister.

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