Yes, that's right, you heard me say it. I'm not suggesting you eat "healthier," as a general rule.

What? Don't eat healthier? Yep, you heard it here.

In a world that serves mostly nutrient-poor foods for economic gain, and easier distribution (a story of its own), eating "healthier" opens you up to so many rationalizations around what you eat, and when you eat it, that your head would spin if I listed them ALL.

For instance...

• Moving away from the SAD Standard American Diet, to eating less of those same nutrient-poor foods we so commonly eat, is "healthier," but not healthy.
• Lowering the refined sugar or harmful fat content you are consuming is "healthier," but not healthy, if you are still eating nutrient-poor foods.
• Taking in less added and refined salt is "healthier," but you are still not eating healthy, if you are eating unsalted nutrient-poor foods, otherwise known as "bland."
• Lowering the glycemic index of your dietwill have some positive impact, like all "healthier" diet tactics do, at first, but if you are still eating nutrient poor, you are still not eating healthy!To learn more read, "Wow, I Thought I Was Eating Healthy" - The 9 Healthier Diet Tactics That Are Actually Causing You to Drain Your Energy, Gain Weight and Age Faster!
• In the name of eating "healthier, some people think the answer is found by going back to the way we supposedly ate 10,000 years ago--eating a Paleolithic (Paleo) style diet of predominantly animal foods, with sides of green vegetables and fruit. I have news for you, eating the typical Paleo diet, albeit a potentially "healthier" eating style, as compared to the SAD, is still nutrient poor and unhealthy.Those who do follow it (not all), have a warped understanding of what a nutrient-rich food is, and they too, end up eating a "healthier" version of the SAD Standard American Diet.
• How about giving up meat? While going Vegetarian or Vegan is a great dietary improvement because virtually all nutrients come from plants, and many nutrient-rich healthy eaters (not all) are Vegan or near-Vegan--you have to really know what you are doing to do it right--as many Vegans and Vegetarians aren't actually eating healthy at all. Often, they too are often eating a "healthier" version of the Standard American Diet, which is loaded with refined foods.

I could keep going. Even a potentially "healthy" raw food diet has its pitfalls, if you don't understand what it means to eat nutrient rich. For example, I personally eat in a way that could be called "High Raw," as I eat raw food about 50-75% or more of the time. But doing so does not actually mean that I'm on a raw food diet or that I am limited only to eating raw food only because I am a nutrient-rich eater, who likes some of my food raw. Eating High Raw, like being Vegan or Vegetarian, may very well work for many people, but again, if they aren't eating in a nutrient-rich way when doing so, even eating a raw food diet may be "healthier," and still not be sustainable.

You see, eating "healthier" is a term that only applies when you already have a nutrient-rich healthy eating style or one that you are majorly improving. So, if you are leaning toward eating more raw food, and/or going Vegan, you must be optimizing in the way you will learn about in The Nutrient Rich® Healthy Eating Plan in order to truly be eating healthy! In this context, eating "healthier" makes sense because you are eating the nutrient-rich way that we teach in the Plan--and are optimizing the way you eat for nutrient density, volume and great-taste, free of addictive substances, resulting in your eating the right amount of calories for you--of course only when you are truly hungry, and given your unique lifestyle requirements.

That doesn't sound so radical does it?

Before you've made the Switch to nutrient-rich, healthy eating, the objective is NOT to eat "healthier," even if you are always improving here and there, and aren't eating perfectly (which no one ever does). Rather, you want to:

1. Make the Switch to a nutrient rich healthy eating style,
2. Eat even healthier as time goes on.

Make the Switch to Rich, and get on the path to healthy eating and lifestyle success. When you do, you will eat healthier all the time, only now you are doing so correctly--eating nutrient rich!

So, don't eat just "healthier," learn how to eat in a great-tasting nutrient-rich healthy eating style.

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There are reasons why Nutrient Rich.com is aligned with Dr. Fuhrman's nutritional guidelines which we have coined "The Gold Standard".

First, I discovered Dr Fuhrman 20 years ago before the world knew who he was, in the most unlikely of places, at a most unlikely time. As a 245 pound body builder who was eating 30 eggs a day and at least one chicken, along with white rice and a token veggie on the side (nutrient poor)... in a world that was as foreign to "good health" as one could be.

I was in my gym (I owned a gym called Olympia at the time) and learned of an organization called the American Natural Hygiene Society. Now called the National Health Association.I'll tell that story in greater detail in another post.

A rag mag about health found it's way into my gym (strangely) and it just blew me a way. It made sense! Mind boggled by a sense of clarity about healthy eating like I had never experienced before, I took a trip to an event to learn more. It was then and there that I was introduced to a whole new world of health information and one of the guys leading the charge was Dr. Fuhrman. Needless to say, I did not feel healthy, living and eating the way I was, so I opened my mind and the rest was history.

Within 1 year, I lost 75 pounds and literally rebuilt my body. Only this time with a healthy eating plan, I build my body healthy! I don't recall exactly what Dr Fuhrman was talking about when I first met him, but it (the knowledge) was very convincing, and surely what he said was a precursor to the kind of wisdom you'll learn from Dr Fuhrman yourself starting now with this video above on nutrient density.

When it comes to a healthy eating plan, focusing on the nutrient density of your diet is the key to good health. The nutrient density of your food is not the only reason that determines what you eat or why, but from a standpoint of knowing you have a healthy eating plan, it starts which understanding nutrient density and Dr. Fuhrman is the expert many experts like me, learn from.

Today, that's why nutrientrich.com, is all about this new trend in eating for health, performance and natural weight loss. Nutrient density is the most fundamental concept of nutrition and Dr. Fuhrman's nutritional education and guidance on the subject is second to no one. He is the leader in the nutrient rich revolution.

Nutrient Density is the concept you want to learn. It IS the key to good health.
Have a listen and come to your own conclusions.

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