Your Nutrition
Optimal nutrition requires integrating the well-documented fundamentals of nutrition and good health into one powerful, unified program. Adoption of a lifestyle program can enhance performance, optimize body fat, reduce stress, lower blood pressure, blood sugar, insulin levels, cholesterol and triglycerides.
In the 2004 film, Super Size Me, Morgan Spurlock embarks upon a month-long descent into fast food Armageddon. Spurlock, a 30-something, 6 ft 2, 185-pound man, decided to begin a one-month, three-meal-a-day “MacDiet” (McDonalds food only). Prior to the experiment, Spurlock was healthy, physically active and consumed a reasonable 2500 calories a day. Thirty days later, he was eating more than 5,000 calories a day and suffering from depression, rapid mood swings, high blood pressure, low sex drive, and symptoms of addiction. He had gained 24.5 pounds, his
cholesterol had shot up 65 points, and his body fat average had jumped from 11 to 18%. After just two weeks on the diet, all three of the physicians with whom Spurlock consulted encouraged him to abandon the diet, as he was showing signs of having seriously compromised his liver. Credible doctors all, these physicians were astonished to discover that a fast food diet could wreak so much havoc on the body. Although his was an extreme experiment, Spurlock’s culinary adventure illustrated well the dangers of a high-fat, high calorie, high oxidative stress diet exacerbated by processed, dead foods and lack of exercise.
Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia report that in 2000, 56% were overweight, nearly 20% of American adults were obese, 7.3% had diabetes, and about 3% suffered from both conditions.1
Although greater numbers of people are seeking new ways to optimize their health and minimize their susceptibility to disease, never has nutritional awareness and education been a more pressing concern. Millions of Americans are becoming casualties of one degenerative disease after another. Environmental toxins are certainly part of the problem, but the bigger culprit is our ignorance and disregard of the fundamental principles of good health.
- JAMA, September 12, 2001;286:1195-1200.
