Purely Nourished

Doesn’t nutri­tion some­times com­pletely over­whelm you? One day you’re being told to limit your fat, the next day to eat your healthy fats. You’re con­vinced to con­sume dairy prod­ucts to lose weight and just after you stock your fridge full with all the dairy prod­ucts you can find, new research tells you to limit your intake of dairy. How aggra­vat­ing!  The sci­ence of nutri­tion can be quite con­fus­ing and even intim­i­dat­ing at times. You get so moti­vated to get healthy and increase your energy level, you stock up on the lat­est mag­a­zines, books, and jour­nal arti­cles. And of course all the mate­ri­als are inter­est­ing and insight­ful but then you real­ize you’ve been locked into the roller coaster of ever chang­ing advice and the thrill is no where to be found. You get to the point where you are ready to give up, throw in the towel. I mean who isn’t. We have all reached that break­ing point. And sadly isn’t it usu­ally the moment where we decide to dis­re­gard all the healthy advice we have ever learned and reach for the unhealth­i­est piece of sug­ary fat we can find? We end up feel­ing like we’ve hit rock bot­tom and just don’t know where to turn. I’m with you. I’ve rid­den the roller coaster numer­ous times. Luck­ily,  I have learned how to beat the sys­tem and I have dis­cov­ered who and what to trust and when to ignore the lat­est fads and stick to what I know works. I’m here to share with you my tools for the suc­cess­ful nav­i­ga­tion of the sci­ence of nutrition.

Ques­tions to ask your­self before trust­ing new advice:

Who is mak­ing a claim? Are they a rep­utable source? And when I say that I don’t nec­es­sar­ily mean their cre­den­tials I mean does the other infor­ma­tion they pro­vide make sense.

Has the advice been around for numer­ous years?

Does the advice seem real­is­tic? Obvi­ously an apple is good for you, but does the source claim that some sort of sug­ary coated processed fruit snack will change your life. Use your com­mon sense.

Where is the food pro­duced? Does it come straight from the earth? Is it in it’s most pure form?; Picked and handed to you and your belly. If it is, It’s more likely to be a good choice.

Stick to the foods that make your body feel best. Unfor­tu­nately, I can’t deter­mine all of those foods for you. I can only point you in the right direc­tion. There are the obvi­ous healthy options. Still, take the time to make sure they truly work for you. Ex. Straw­ber­ries are an amaz­ing source of vit­a­min C and potas­sium. They are amaz­ing for the peo­ple who can tol­er­ate them, not so much for the peo­ple who are aller­gic to them.

Find­ing the foods that work best for your body is a process. It takes effort but once you’ve deter­mined what works and what doesn’t you will be that much closer to a health­ier, hap­pier, less over­whelmed you. You will come to the real­iza­tion that some of  the foods you thought you enjoyed actu­ally give you dis­com­fort. Over time you wont give a sec­ond thought to avoid­ing those trig­ger foods and slowly learn to stick with only the choices that make you feel your best.

I hope that this post has helped you make a step in the right direc­tion. Look for­ward to fur­ther posts that dis­cuss this area of impor­tance in more depth.

Good luck.