Simplifying Nutrition - The Wellness Way
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Simplifying Nutrition - The Wellness Way
Executive Summary About Simplifying Nutrition by Colleen Rombley
The Wellness Formula states that optimal health and function are created as a result of consistently making pure and sufficient lifestyle choices over time, while simultaneously reducing toxic and deficient choices.
“Sufficient” choices give us enough of the requirements to meet our needs, while “deficient” choices fail to meet our innate requirements for health.
All these choices play out on a dynamic sliding scale of health. On one end of the scale is optimal health & function. When we make toxic and deficient choices we move away from optimal health.
1) Eat real food.
2) Eat food in its whole form, closest to its naturally occurring state.
3) Eat food that is pure, clean and untainted.
4) Eat foods that are fresh, seasonal and local.
My kids call it “God-made” food. Real food meets our requirements for sufficiency.This moves us away from health.For example, cows naturally eat grass, not fatty grains. Foods in their naturally occurring state help meet our requirements for sufficiency.
Eating pure and clean foods means, whenever possible, choosing foods without toxic chemicals like pesticides, herbicides, steroids, hormones, antibiotics, radiation and so on. Choosing organic foods makes good health sense when you consider that toxic choices move us away from health on the sliding scale. To further simplify food choices, I refer to the “Circle of Health”. What goes in the circle are the foods we know for certain create health. Inside the Circle of Health are:
1) protein - meat/poultry, eggs, fish, seafood, nuts & seeds, sprouts, etc.
2) fats & oils - nature-made (butter, coconut oil, olive oil, etc.) vs. synthetic, man made (processed vegetable oils); nuts & seeds
3) vegetables
4) fruit
5) water
6) grains
7) dairy
As far as the other foods in the Circle of Health, remember to follow the Golden Rules: choose whole foods in their naturally occurring state; choose as pure and clean as possible; and select fresh, seasonal and local foods whenever you can.
Foods outside the circle that do the most damage and move us the furthest from health are the synthetic, man made, factory foods. Stick to the Circle of Health as much as possible. Begin by adding more real foods, whole foods and fresh foods to your day. Then, choose the cleanest foods when you can. Start by adding pure and sufficient food choices each day and enjoy your new levels of health and vitality!