Nutrition is one of the most important factors for good health and wellbeing. With just a few simple adjustments you can significantly improve your diet and your health, leading to more energy, easy weight loss, improved cognitive function, clearer skin and so much more.
So let me share with you 101 simple nutritional tips
1. Eat whole, fresh unprocessed. In other words real food
2. Don’t eat any ingredient you cannot pronounce
3. Don’t eliminate carbohydrates from your diet, just focus on better sources of carbohydrates (think veggies)
4. Eat when you’re hungry, but make sure you are actually hungry and not just thirsty!
5. Eat a wide variety of foods, a great way to do this is by using a rotation system
6. Try and eat organically, conventional food is full of toxic chemicals that will toxify your body
7. Eat the yolk in eggs, it’s there for a reason
8. Every once in a while track the foods you’re eating to see what you need to eat more/less of
9. Eat more butter
10. Eat liver at least once a week, its nature’s super food
11. Take a light walk 30 minutes after you eat, it will aid circulation and assist with your digestion
12. Don’t eat too much food or until you’re stuffed
13. Never buy anything low fat, it will be more processed and have higher amounts of sugar to give it flavour
14. Enjoy sea salt but avoid table salt at all costs
15. Stop looking for convenience and start to enjoy the process of cooking. I think creating a meal is like creating a piece of art.
16. It is nearly impossible to get optimal levels of vitamins and minerals through food alone. This is due to poor soil quality. Take a great multivitamin to boost your levels
17. Chew your food
18. Use cold pressed extra virgin olive oil to dress salads but don’t cook with it
19. Eat more broccoli, it has cancer fighting properties
20. Drink more water, it keeps you hydrated and helps with detoxification
21. Try intermittent fasting
22. Avoid the 4 white devils. Sugar, table salt, flour and conventional dairy
23. Shop at the farmers market. Food sold will be in season therefore more nutrient dense and it’s great for the local community
24. Don’t cook with Teflon pans, they leach chemicals
25. Invest in good cookware such as Le Creuset. Anything cast iron is great
26. Eat a protein rich breakfast. Steak is a great choice 🙂
27. Green leafy vegetables are VERY nutrient dense
28. Have a shot of apple cider vinegar before you eat, it will help breakdown the food and assist with digestion
29. Avoid gluten
30. Don’t shop when you’re hungry
31. When you do shop stick to the peripherals of the supermarket, it’s where the real food is
32. Cinnamon is great for insulin regulation
33. If you’re still hungry after a meal, wait 20 minutes to digest before you dive into a second helping
34. Eat the skin on chicken, it’s where the good fats will be found that make your hormones happy
35. Have warm water and lemon first thing in the morning. It will alkalise your body
36. Eat a small handful of Brazil nuts in the evening to increase testosterone
37. Fermented food is full of healthy gut bacteria, enjoy sauerkraut, kimchi, kefir amongst others
38. Turmeric is amazing as an antiinflammatory
39. Go easy on the caffeine and avoid it after 3pm as it will affect your sleep
40. Tomatoes are great for protecting you against prostate cancer
41. Take a Eat Right For Your Type test to determine if you’re a protein, carbohydrate or mixed type
42. Enjoy a treat every now and again but eat treats that still have nutrition. Foods such as dark chocolate and red wine have high levels of antioxidants and improve mood and pleasure
43. Coffee is the highest sprayed crop, buy organic
44. Never smoke after eating, in fact just never smoke
45. Eat a rainbow of vegetables to keep your immune system functioning optimally
46. If you’re unwell, eat garlic and ginger. They’re great at killing off bad bacteria
47. Try and eat oily fish twice a week. Salmon and sardines are rich in omega 3’s
48. Bone broth is full of wonderful goodness
49. Soak grains to remove antinutrients
50. Using microwaves will leave your food nutritionally redundant
51. A frozen banana makes for damn good ice cream
52. Eat by the food pyramid; look like the food pyramid
53. Don’t think ‘because they’re kids they will just burn it off’,’ kids are even more sensitive to what you feed them.
54. Check out this tasty and easy recipe for a Raw Chocolate Brownie
55. Eat kelp to enhance thyroid function
56. Eat lettuce if you have a sleep issue
57. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper
58. Don’t eat anything your grandmother wouldn’t recognise as food
59. Cook with coconut oil, it’s stable at high temperature and protects your heart
60. Some people do better eating 3 square meals others little and often. Figure out what works for you
61. Don’t go on a calorie restricted diet. 95% of people put the weight back on and more after the first year
62. Avoid artificial sweeteners, they will trick your brain into thinking you’re getting nutrition. When this doesn’t happen you will be left more hungry
63. Eat plenty of fiber rich foods, green leafy vegetables anyone?
64. Milk does contain calcium but it’s not in a very useable form for the human body. For calcium eat ….more green leafy vegetables
65. Supplement with cod liver oil, its high in vitamin A and D. Blue Ice is my favourite
66. Your gut is your second brain, that’s why you have gut feelings
67. If your goal is to heal your gut read The Gaps Diet by Natasha Campbell McBride
68. Keep your fruit consumption in check.
69. Don’t make a juice with 2 apples, 1 banana and a handful of berries….when would you ever eat that in one serving? Never!
70. Eggs are a great source of protein and good fats but make sure you buy free range (preferably organic) eggs as caged eggs have a very different omega profiling
71. For vitamin C eat red capsicums
72. Beware of skipping meals, for some it can significantly increase cortisol, your stress hormone which leads to fat storage
73. Resist restaurant temptations. Ask the waiter to hold the bread.
74. Try a lettuce wrapped burger
75. To determine portion size use the palm method. Your plate should have a palm size of protein, a palm size of carbohydrates (think veggies) and two fingers of healthy fats
76. Green tea or chilli peppers have shown to be effective at boosting your metabolism
77. Identify emotional triggers that lead you to seek unhealthy comfort foods
78. Try cauliflower rice or mash for a lower calorie nutrient dense option
79. Never eat when you are angry. Your body wants to be in a parasympathetic state while eating meaning you will be in the rest and digest mode.When you are angry you will be in a sympathetic state.
80. Make a soup, they can be both filling and comforting
81. Beware of drinking out of plastic bottles. Plastic can leach xenoestrogens ultimately playing havoc with your hormones
82. As a quick healthy snack try almond butter on celery
83. Focus on building good habits, try eating vegetables for breakfast for the next week
84. Fancy chippies, then make Kale chips as a nutritious alternative
85. If it’s in the cupboard/pantry at some point you will eat it. If you know it’s not good for you then clear it out
86. Use fresh herbs and spices to give your food a kick
87. Use pumpkin seeds on salads, they are rich in magnesium which has shown to reduce blood pressure
88. Try coconut yoghurt as an alternate for dairy. Coyo is my favourite
89. Eat walnuts to lift your mood
90. Start a vegetable garden, there is something incredibly rewarding about watching your own veggies grow
91. If you have a cold, then an olive leaf from the olive tree is a great immune booster. Add it to hot water and drink
92. Suck on bones and get the marrow out, its has glucosamine which is great for joints
93. If you’re going to eat bread, then choose a sourdough as it goes through a fermentation process meaning more nutrients
94. If your doctor puts you on a course of antibiotics, then make sure you have a course of probiotics to follow
95. Drink filtered, non fluoridated water
96. Add a pinch of sea salt to your water to help the body absorb and hydrate
97. Having friends over for breakfast/brunch and fancy making waffles, check this yummy healthy recipe out
98. Avoid or limit deep sea fish such as tuna and shark as they have high levels of mercury in
99. If you add lemon or lime to your meal it can lower the glycemic index by about 30%
100. Eat immediately after exercise. During exercise your cortisol (stress hormone) begins to rise putting your body in a catabolic (breakdown) state. Eating will put your body back into an anabolic state (build up)
101. One of the major keys to effective weight loss is getting your hormones balanced. Unbalanced hormones will inevitably leave you struggling to lose weight, tired and with foggy thinking. Test your hormones here at hormone testing NZ for a comprehensive analysis and protocol to rebalance hormones
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