Why Nutrient Rich
In recent decades, there has been a steady decline in the quality of food we consume. We are eating predominantly nutrient poor, calorically rich foods and the results have been obvious; overweight, obesity and disease complications.
The more we eat these foods, the earlier in life and the greater the extent we experience disease.
It does not need to be this way for you or your family. People are waking up!
The Obesity Trend
To see how overweight we’ve become, check out this recent online PowerPoint from the CDC, it says it all http://www.nutrientrich.com/obesity-trends.html
If you are one of the people attempting to lose weight through low cal, low fat, low carb and other popular dieting methods, it’s not a guarantee, but pretty likely that you are on the fast-track to getting overweight again, or suffering some form of metabolic or chronic illness at some point in your future.
Lifestyle-induced diseases from being overweight to obesity, hypertension to heart disease, diabetes and most forms of cancer are avoidable.
Here’s what Cornell Professor (Emeritus, Nutritional Biochemistry) and Nutrient Rich Advisor T. Colin Campbell PhD has to say in his new book, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted.
“The problem is not a lack of money. In 1999, medical care costs relating to obesity alone were estimated at to be $70 billion. In 2002, a mere 3 years later, the American Obesity Association listed these costs to be at $100 billion. This is not all; add another $30-40 billion out of pocket money that we spend trying to keep off the weight in the first place.
“Going on special weight loss diet plans and popping pills to cut our appetites or rearrange our metabolisms have become a national pastime.”
“This is an economic black hole that sucks our money away without offering anything in return. Imagine paying $40 to a service man to fix your leaky kitchen sink, and then two weeks later, the sink pipes explode and flood the kitchen and it costs $500 to repair. I bet you wouldn’t ask that guy to fix your sink again! So then why do we endlessly try those weight loss plans, drinks, junky energy bars and assorted gimmicks when they don’t deliver as promised?”
“We are drowning in an ocean of very bad information; too much of it intended to put money in someone else’s pockets. What we really need is a new solution comprised of good information for individual people to use at a price that they can afford.”
Notice, Dr Campbell was talking only of the cost in dollars (not quality of life costs) related to obesity, poor health and performance. You don’t even need to be overweight or obese to be suffering the consequence of a nutrient poor diet, a diet that is made so easy to eat, and causes a life of hardship…
Disease Complications
• Shorter life
• Weaker bones
• Faster aging
• Impotence
• Lower energy
• Infertility
• Overweight
• Stroke
• High blood cholesterol
• Kidney stones
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• Heart disease
• Diseased Children
• Prostate, breast and other cancers
• Constipation
• Poor eyesight
• Drug expenses
• Diabetes
• High blood pressure
• Resulting surgeries
• Alzheimer's... |
This is the short list of what happens, when you eat a nutrient poor diet. You may save a little time up front eating nutrient poor foods but it basically costs you your life time. Chances are very good you know someone intimately well, who is suffering from one or more of these or some other disease; what we’ve been trained to believe is genetics or the inevitable result of aging. They’re not!
Diet Trapped!
There are dozens, maybe hundreds of reasons why we are faced with the epidemic, actually pandemic problem of progressive weight gain, health complications and increased chronic illness, not the least of which are various commercial interests who have a “vested” interest in making sure you never really solve your problem.
The whole concept of eating one way and solving the problems it creates with another is foolish. When you get overweight, you’re not only storing excess energy you didn’t use, your body is full of toxic junk that compromises your health and your ability to perform well.
If you are not actively dieting, consider this, over 220 million people in America alone are “diet trapped”, including your kids, eating predominantly nutrient poor foods.
According to Joel Fuhrman MD, author of Disease Proof Your Child, “fruits and vegetables make up only about 4 percent of the diet of an American child, and half of America's children have french fries as their only vegetable.”
Is this your child?
We were all once kids too, so it is not surprising that the average adult is not eating any better; diet habits are naturally formed when we are children.
There is a revolution taking place and it’s called Nutrient Rich. It’s the new trend towards eating better food for better health and natural weight loss; the only sane way to get free from diet traps and harmful foods. It’s the shift to eating better, not less, from nutrient poor to Nutrient Rich foods that promote your health and success.
The Nutrient Rich Revolution is happening for three primary reasons:
- Individuals and Businesses can’t afford health insurance anymore because of rising health care costs due to excess weight and sickness.
- Consumers like you are demanding access to better quality foods. This is a big deal; it is creating demand for better quality Nutrient Rich foods. Now naturally Nutrient Rich foods, meals and menus are popping up all over the country and around the world; there’s even a new beer that’s Nutrient Rich!
- Entrepreneurs are serving this need for better quality foods with hundreds of new natural products closely derived from whole foods sources, that are as convenient as the original fast foods themselves; Nutrient Rich whole foods in their natural state.
But what does it mean to eat better? Eat your veggies? More fruit? Less Meat? If it was that easy people would be more successful; there’s way more to it. It is simple, but not always easy when you don’t have the inspiration, knowledge or support to revolutionize the way you eat.
Learning how to eat Nutrient Rich, in a world that is serving you predominantly nutrient poor foods, presents some challenges; for example:
- What foods are Nutrient Rich and which ones are nutrient poor?
- How do you quickly cut through the propaganda around which foods are healthy and which ones are merely promoted that way?
- How do you shop, prepare and eat out?
- How do you feed your kids?
- How do you lose weight the Nutrient Rich Way?
Once you know the answers to the questions above, and you focus on improving your diet and lifestyle, you’ll get free of dieting and dramatically improve your health.
Nutrient Rich is a concept that builds on the well established cornerstone of nutrition—nutrient density — in a more meaningful, relevant, and actionable way.
“Nutrient density has been a central, but underutilized, pillar of nutrition for many years. In light of the obesity epidemic in the United States, renewed attention has been given to this concept in an effort to find ways to educate consumers to make better choices to get the most nutrition from their foods and make their calories count more.” - Putting More Power on American Plates – Kathleen Zelman MS. RD, Eileen Kennedy DSC, RD Naturally Nutrient Rich…
"The American diet is said to be increasingly energy-rich but nutrient-poor. To help improve the nutrient-to-energy ratio, the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend that consumers replace some foods in their diets with more nutrient-dense options. Such dietary guidance presupposes the existence of a nutrient density standard. However, a review of the literature shows that the concept of a nutritious food is not based on any consistent standards or criteria," a researcher in the United States reports. – “Nutrient Density Score Helps Develop Health Diet.” Adam Drewnowski at the University of Washington in Seattle
Even a Naturally Nutrient Rich Coalition comprised of 13 food commodity groups – supports the overall theme of the new guidelines, including the emphasis on selecting a variety of nutrient-rich foods…
Many consumers already embrace the concept of enjoying naturally nutrient-rich foods. According to a nationally representative survey of adults, more than 80 percent of respondents said they would be willing to change their diet based on a recommendation to eat naturally nutrient-rich foods first (IPSOS-Public Affairs, March 2004).
Eating Better
We’ve been told to eat better since we were kids, but most of us are not successful at doing it. Remember 265 million Americans are eating nutrient poor right now because they don’t know any different. Once you make the decision to shift from predominantly nutrient poor to Nutrient Rich foods, meals and menus, eating better makes a lot more sense.
Are you ready to eat successfully and get free of extra weight and long term health issues? You’ll be successful in a Nutrient Rich Lifestyle!
We created the Nutrient Rich.com because there is no such thing as going on a Nutrient Rich Diet. Eating Nutrient Rich is different for everyone, but for many it’s driven first and foremost by a desire to lose weight and get healthy at the same time.
When you eat Nutrient Rich successfully, you will:
• Live longer with better quality of life
• Look and feel younger
• Increase your energy
• Lose weight naturally, not the result
• Lower your blood cholesterol of heroic
efforts of dieting or exercise
• Prevent and even reverse heart disease
• Lower you risk of prostate breast and
• Preserve your eyesight in later years
other cancers
• Prevent and treat diabetes
• Avoid surgery in many instances
• Vastly decrease the need for
pharmaceutical drugs
• Keep your bones strong
• Avoid Stroke
• Avoid impotence
• Prevent Kidney stones
• Avoid infertility
• Alleviate constipation
• Keep your baby from getting
• Avoid Alzheimer's
Type I & Type II Diabetes
• Lower your blood pressure
• And more ...
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While eating Nutrient Rich your goal is to actually solve your problem and get on with your life free of extra weight and long term health issues. With the help of a world class lifestyle health and science advisory team, and data from the most comprehensive study of nutrition ever conducted, along with sound and collaborative science, and the most practical approach to eating better food for better health and natural weight loss, you have the opportunity right now to live a better life.
The Nutrient Rich Revolution has really just begun, don’t wait around anymore for some high tech solution, some pill, powder or potion to solve your problem; real health comes from living a healthy, abundant lifestyle.
- It’s time to Get Rich, Nutrient Rich!
- Enjoy irresistible foods and watch unwanted pounds melt away!
- No longer worry about “right” portions of carbohydrates, protein or fats!
- Understand the difference between calorie-rich and nutrient-rich.
- Eat delicious desserts that will make your mouth water and improve your health.
- Promote healthy muscular development.
- Experience more energy.
- Eat whenever you are hungry – and still lose weight!
- Say “yes” to Nutrient Rich pizzas and ice cream – guilt free!
- Always feel satisfied and fulfilled.
- Actually say “no!” to dieting forever!
Click here to learn more about The Nutrient Rich Lifestyle
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