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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But, that’s not all there is to losing weight—losing weight is also mental AND a physical process—you have to decide that you are ready to let go of your addictions to nutrient poor food even if that takes time, and transition the way you eat, so that 90% or More of the foods you eat are nutrient-Rich! A nutrient-rich healthy eating style is not about eating unhealthy nutrient poor foods in moderation, or simply eating less of the SAD Standard American Diet; it's about eating predominantly nutrient-rich foods— the beans, legumes, fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds and whole grains 90% or More of the time, in an optimized way so that your energy and metabolism are optimized for great results. Of course, always eating in a great tasting way! You have to decide to make the switch and then engage in a nutrition transition to be become that slimmer, trimmer, healthier you and THAT requires you get a "nutrient rich" nutritional education.

There is a reason why so many people hop from diet to diet and accept such low standards of results, most of which they have to struggle to maintain. They don't know what to believe or what works because they have limited knowledge, insufficient evidence and doubt, preventing them from being able to understand what's happening when it's happening. They misinterpret results and this keeps them eating in a disease promoting way. And given the subjective often emotional nature of diet and lifestyle change, you can be sure must of what you learn is wrong from so called "experts" who too are diet-trapped just like you. Learning the nutrient-rich healthy eating style along with improving your lifestyle as a whole, including a reasonable exercise routine will deliver a happier, healthier and slimmer you. You can be sure of that. But what will motivate you to make the Switch to Rich? It's knowledge of all the benefits a nutrient-rich healthy eating style that such as detoxification, disease reversal, optimized health, natural weight loss, a slower aging process, a younger look, and maximized longevity that will help you overcome all the barriers to change!

This is where you want to start if you want to develop a "richer life" free of weight issues and healthy complication here you are fulfilled and can focus on your goals.

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Instead of depriving yourself and only eating small portions of high-calorie foods that aren’t going to give you the nutrients that you need , and will leave you feeling hungry, eating nutrient-dense, appropriate-calorie foods will keep you satisfied at a much lower calorie count. Believe it or not, you’ll be able to feel satisfied on anywhere from 1000 to 2000 calories per day, as opposed to the usual 1600 to 3000.

What’s the trick?

Well, there’s no big mystery to the equation. You’ll be receiving many more nutrients for each calorie that you intake, so what you eat will actually count and fill you up. The Chinese population eats more calories than Americans do, but they’re actually 25% thinner. This is simply due to the fact that the average American diet is made up of at least 37% of calories that come from fat, as well as excess amounts of refined sugar and carbohydrates.

High fat and high sugar can totally destroy your metabolism, leading to long-term weight gain… no matter how many calories you’re eating. Yikes!

Or maybe you’re one of those people who has tried diet after diet, hoping to lose those last 20 pounds, without any visible results. All hope is not lost for you, my friend. You can tweak your taste buds with nutrient-rich healthy eating and learn how to be satisfied with fewer calories, on a permanent basis.

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health have set dietary guidelines for those hoping to reach their goal weight. These guidelines state that women should eat less than 1200 calories per day, and men should eat less than 1600.

After studying a number of top diets in-depth, it has been found that nutrient-rich healthy eating is the only way to meet these National Institutes of Health calorie requirements, while still getting the proper fiber and nutrients that you need each and every day. Even some of the sample menus published by the National Institutes of Health for 1200 and 1600 calorie plans don’t meet the recommended daily values set in place by the government.

Why is that? The sample diet plans simply aren’t nutrient-rich enough. Most of the food choices on the diet plans are surprisingly low in important nutrients, like vitamin K, chromium, folate, and magnesium, which can be found in a 90% plant-based diet.

But there’s no need to worry about your calorie count when you’re eating nutrient rich. Eating your way up to 90% or more plant-based nutrient-rich foods doesn’t mean that you’re on a diet. And, you don’t even have to become a vegan or vegetarian, since a vegetarian diet doesn’t necessarily guarantee good health.

People who don’t eat animal products, but continue to gorge on pasta, bread, bagels, and other refined carbohydrates may be eating low-fat, but they’re definitely not getting enough vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals to protect their health. Refined grains are dramatically low in fiber, so they also won’t help you to feel full after eating them. This again leads us back to the cycle of constant overeating due to a lack of nutrient-dense foods that are low in calories, causing your body to naturally feel full after a meal.

To spell it out for you, eating a strict vegan or vegetarian diet is not always the same as eating a 90% or more plant-based nutrient-rich diet. A vegetarian may eat a diet made up primarily of refined grains and processed health food products, yet they may still be missing out on valuable fruits, vegetables, and beans to balance their nutrition. But let’s not forget about the fact that vegetarians in the US have significantly lower cholesterol rates because they are not eating animal products. This reduces the risk of cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and obesity, causing them to live longer. So, whether or not you are a vegetarian, you can receive many of the same benefits by eating 90% or more plant-based nutrient-rich and cutting back dramatically on the animal products that you eat.

By the way, with all the talk on global warming – imagine losing weight the nutrient-rich way, and reducing the environmental impact of the foods you eat. According to http://www.farmusa.org/,

a diet full of animal products is not only responsible for disease, but it requires 10 to 20 times as much land as a plant-based diet. More than half of the soybeans and grains in the world are fed to animals, resulting in a serious food waste. To give you a better idea, if meat consumption in the US dropped by even 10%, it would free up enough food sources to feed millions of starving populations in the world.

Animal agriculture has also caused mass devastation by cutting down forests for cattle pastures. Animal feed crops have a constant need for irrigation, using up 80% of all water available for human consumption and causing serious water shortages all over the world.

Eat the nutrient-rich way – it is good for you and for the planet!

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It's people like you (if you are reading this) who inspire me to strive for eating the best I can throughout the year, whether it's a holiday or not. People like us are not necessarily healthy nuts, we just want to eat in the healthiest and most successful way, without having to be perfect or sacrifice great taste.

Well, there is no other holiday that currently supports you in healthy eating like Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving is already the most nutrient-rich holiday there is, with all the vegetables and fruits and the down-to-earth feeling you get on Thanksgiving day... where it's all about being truly grateful for all that we have in our lives. After all, we are the luckiest people who have ever been born to date, throughout all of history, who have access to so many technologies and healthy food, sanitation and for the most part freedom from fears associated with mere survival. It's an amazing time to be alive, particularly if you don't get caught up with a lot of modern pitfalls.

One such pitfall, as you know, is eating nutrient-poor food, especially when it's so simple to make the switch to nutrient-rich and get all the benefits of healthy eating, without having to be perfect or sacrifice great taste. This is a far cry from what healthy eating used to be. 

Well, Thanksgiving is a holiday already rich with nutrient-rich foods; but did you know you could actually go through this holiday and eat up to 90% or more plant nutrient rich foods, in the greatest tasting ways and wake up the next day feeling great without the ensuing cold that will befell so many people because they basically ate a heart attack on a plate and all the junk food they could to overwhelm their bodies?

In the past, Thanksgiving has been some sort of license, not only to overeat, but to also overwhelm your body with nutrient-poor foods too, like cake and pie etc, as if it is OK, just because it's a holiday. I mean, you can eat whatever you want, but you know you can't eat whatever, whenever and get the results you want. So if you want to have a great Thanksgiving, which may include eating more than you usually do (after all it is a feast), and feel good afterwards, then make this a nutrient-rich Thanksgiving!

Instead of eating meals heavy with calorie-rich, nutrient-poor animal products and ultra refined food stuffs, eat smaller amounts of Turkey and other animal products and discover the dozens, actually unlimited number of ways to eat plant based, nutrient rich menus.

Here's are two nutrient-rich recipes for Thanksgiving

Porcini Mushroom Gravy.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup dried porcini mushrooms
• 1 medium onion, thinly sliced
• 6 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 cup mushrooms sliced (your choice)
• 3 tablespoons whole wheat flour (get 365 from whole foods)
• 2 tablespoons nutritional yeast
• 1 tablespoon Bragg Liguid Aminos
• 1 Tablespoon Dr.Fuhrman's Vegizest
• 1 cup water
• 1/2 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
• 1/8 teaspoon dried sage
• 1/8 teaspoon black pepper.

Cauliflower with an Attitude (the healthiest mash potato like dish you will ever eat!)

Ingredients:

• 6 Cups cauliflower florets, fresh or frozen
• 6 cloves garlic, roasted
• 10 ounces fresh spinach
• 1/2 cup raw cashew butter (soy, hemp, or almond milk if needed to thin)
• 2 tablespoons Dr. Fuhrman's VegiZest
• 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg.

* Keep in mind the nutrient density of cauliflower is stratospherically higher than white potatoes or even sweet potatoes for that matter. It is a cruciferous vegetable with incredible anti-cancer properties according to Dr. Fuhrman. So why not explore a great-tasting mashed potatoes-like dish that provides incredible health benefits at the same time? Enjoy.

Some Nutrient-Rich Holiday Tips

1) Instead of ice cream, eat vice cream – real food ice creams that are made from cashews, water, maple syrup and vanilla, for example. 

2) Rather than seasoning the sweet potatoes with butter or margarine, add orange, pineapple, apples, pecans, cinnamon, nutmeg, date sugar, maple syrup, lemon, and/or lime, to add even more flavor.

3) Enjoy freshly-baked bread by itself – there is no need to spread on the artery-clogging butter when whole grain breads and healthy spreads are all around us. You can use raw nut butters, apple butter spreads and others.

If you choose to leave some of your old food favorites as is, eating smaller portions will likely not happen. So, make the majority of your meals with Nutrient-Rich Recipes, and you won’t have to eat as much to get full. You’ll get fulfilled faster eating nutrient-rich foods when hunger shuts off. You also won’t have to deprive yourself of the great tasting foods that are important to you and the holiday spirit as you make nutrient-rich versions.

Don’t worry, during this holiday you will likely overeat and gain a few pounds no matter what you eat because everything centers on food. Bu,t go through the holidays eating nutrient-rich, and you'll come through in January feeling like a champ. 

You can then lose weight the Nutrient-Rich Way, without the addictive withdrawal people suffer from that prevents them from eating healthy, with simple adjustments, and there is no dieting required!

Achieving a slimmer healtheir body in after the holidays will be allot easier when you have nutrient-rich holidays. You don't have to be perfect and you never have to sacrifice great tasting foods.

Make only one commitment his holiday season, which kicks off with Thanksgiving. Raise your standard and eat up to 90% or more plant based nutrient-rich foods, not the nutrient poor foods so many of us are used to, that wreak havoc on your body. 

Start the New Year with the confidence and knowing you celebrated well.

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Ref: The Food Class System

1. We eat the standard American diet (SAD) - including limited amounts of 1st class nutrient rich foods.
Basically 80-90% 2nd and 3rd class foods which are nutrient poor, overly concentrated, and overly stimulating, leave us over fed, yet chronically undernourished, driving us to over consume.

2. We then eat less of the SAD otherwise known as "dieting" and this means less of the nutrient poor foods that are not serving us to begin with, or promoting our health as a whole, and this makes you feel like you're starving, reinforces craving  and overeating. You are merely riding the fence, trying to eat better, yet predominantly nutrient poor at the same time. This is a weight gain diet, posing as a weight loss diet.

3. We get so frustrated and go back to one, because we want the freedom of "just eating" what's there and as much as we want. S0, we head back for pleasure. Problem is we're headed back to nutrient poor foods as the basis of our diet which undermines our health, happiness and personal performance.

4. You may go through this process (1-3) a few times. This makes sense given the strategy up until this point, doesn’t work and really can't work for anyone.

5.  Eventually, we start to "get" that we need to being eating predominantly first class, nutrient rich foods with small amounts of second class foods if you eat them, and very small amounts of third class foods if you eat them at all; but instead of eventually going 90% of the way, or more, you sit on the fence, doing the same you've always done eating long shelf life animal based products, and economical, highly refined over stimulating foods because you are used to them and know them better. While eating a little bit healthier it's not enough change to give the shift any momentum. This is the "wash your pastry down with some veggies", "take your vitamins", "eat healthy when I'm sick", and the "token vegetable on the side" strategy. It always fails because while eating a little bit better is good, eating healthy is what works!

6.  We may again go back to #1.

7.  Then we get smarter and realize that we have to a) go beyond eating "plain vegetables" at a time when our taste buds are geared for sugar cereals, bagels and butter, pretzels, steak, pasta, cake... and b) let our taste buds adjust as we focusing on how to shop, organize, prepare and eating out the nutrient rich way; discovering the full breadth and depth of eating a great tasting nutrient rich diet style, and c) get into a more successful lifestyle - no wonder we get the wrong impression when it comes to eating healthy. (BTW, when it comes to eating Nutrient Rich, "boring" is a word that just does not apply).

8.  The taste bud adjustment period is the only tough time you'll have, not because the foods you're now choosing to eat aren't great tasting, but because you'll experience some withdrawal symptoms from 2nd and particularly 3rd class foods which are low in nutrients or have all the nutrients stripped out and only the pleasure inducing chemicals left in. So, while perhaps less intensive, it's a little like getting off drugs! We have to be careful not to associate the pain of withdrawal from the lower class foods, to the emerging pleasure of health promoting, Nutrient Rich foods, which frankly taste better.

You decide to go to the next level in healthy eating!

9. Then you realize "hey there are more great tasting foods to eat, that are Simple, Quick & Easy to eat than there are days in the year! You feel good while you're eating and even better after, and you can avoid all the dieting "traps" behind. You can just live and be free and enjoy all the discovery of nutrient rich foods, from fast to gourmet made from predominantly, if not all, first class foods - vegetables, fruits, legumes/beans, raw nuts and seeds, whole unrefined grains and natural seasonings, sauces and gravies that make already great tasting foods taste even better!!

10. You may again go back to testing the old foods, but this is only normal! Just do it, get the experience and press on towards eating first class Nutrient Rich foods anyway.

11.  After a while your taste buds shift and you realize you are achieving weight loss in the process of getting incredibly healthy. And there is no reason to turn back to foods that make you overweight and sick, despite the fact that they are designed to stimulate your taste buds and they still will. But eventually you resolve to say that the secondary effects of these food stuffs, beyond the initial pleasure-inducing chemical "hits", can not be tolerated by your body, so you go after more of a good thing! More great tasting health promoting nutrient rich foods that give you optimal health and the foundation for high performance.

12.        You realize that weight loss is just one of the many benefits of something bigger and more important - health and high performance. During this phase you can lose a lot of weight as your body starts getting healthy food consistently for maybe the first time in your life. There are many dynamics going on during this phase but the biggest is that your body begins a major transition towards health and literally rebuilds itself using better quality foods.This is a very fun period!

13.        High performance is now possible because your body IS nutrient rich always satiated and full. Combined with the other aspects of a PerformanceLifestyle - you start getting a real handle on your lifestyle and   become very passionate.

14.       You start setting goals that are not food based, but life based and you begin to realize that the better you eat, the better you are able to function and perform. You leave the obsession with dieting in the past and continue to learn and make new distinctions about how you are eating, thinking and living.

15.        You start living your life at the next level, no longer mired in diet traps, and low level concepts that keep you stuck, you get it and get on with your life focused on bigger and better things.

Again, there are lots of little steps and dynamics that go on in this process, but these are the basic steps a person goes through when they are transitioning to a nutrient rich diet.

Read them again and again.

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By Dina Kimmel, with John Allen Mollenhauer

As you can imagine, as a registered dietitian I often hear the question "How much should I weigh?" from not only clients, but friends, family, and total strangers who I happen to strike up a conversation with while food shopping. In the dietetic community, we are taught to use formulas to calculate someone's "ideal body weight". In the doctor's office, you may already be familiar with the BMI chart, which is just another way to tell you if you are at or above your "ideal body weight." Don't get me wrong, both do have their uses. But they are not the be all, end all.

In today's society, we eat too many nutrient poor foods, and we eat too much of these nutrient poor foods. Then we jump from one fad diet to the next, hoping to find that "magic bullet" to cure us of our weight problem, which many times, becomes a lifelong battle. Here at Nutrient Rich.com, we hope to help you break through those diet traps once and for all.

I'll let you in on a little secret-- I really don't like the term "ideal body weight." Why? Because it perpetuates the obsession that is running rampant in society about reaching that "ideal number". People are absolutely obsessed about that pesky "number on the scale." I see it and hear it all the time. Instead of obsessing about "that dreaded number" which probably keeps you up at night, wouldn't you rather turn your brain power and energy into something more productive to move forward with your life?

I'd like to help you with that.

I'm not saying that you shouldn't be concerned with your weight. Au contraire! I'm just saying that you would have a healthier mindset if you think more along the lines of "natural weight". Dr. Fuhrman explains in his newly updated book Eat to Live - The Amazing Nutrient Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss that "all formulas that approximate ideal weights are only rough guides, since we all have different body types and bone structure." Dr. Fuhrman also uses a different formula than what is traditionally used.

He also explains, "once you start eating healthfully...most people lose weight until they reach their ideal weight and then try stop losing weight." He goes on to say, "Once the fat is off your body, your weight will stabilize. Stabilization at a thin, muscular weight occurs because your body gives you strong signals to eat, signals that I call "true hunger." (We'll explain more about true hunger separately).

Basically, if you follow a Nutrient Rich way of eating, then you will lose weight and your body will NATURALLY reach its ideal body weight, which will then stabilize. It's that simple! You really don't even have to think about it, other than the fact that you do need to use what you consume (activity) and of course, the rest of your lifestyle better be working for you, else you'll end up eating due to stress and other reasons that have nothing to do for nutrition.

With all this talk about weight, don't forget to make sure it does not become your primary focus. Remember to see the forest from the trees--we want to help you learn how to eat Nutrient Rich in order to get into the healthiest lifestyle possible reach your life's goals!

We still talk about living at or near, your ideal body weight, but what we are really referring to is your natural weight when you're diet and lifestyle are healthy.

Your Ideal Weight will soon become your natural weight.

Doesn't that all sound so freeing?

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