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Maintain Your Body’s Nutrient Reservoirs
Health Habit # 3 is to maintain the nutrient levels in your body.
 Cars need fuel, oil, air and replacement parts as parts wear out.
Likewise, your body needs fuel, lubricants, catalysts and thousands of nutrients from foods which provide fuel, lubricants and the raw materials from which the body makes its own replacement parts.
Note, this discussion is not primarily about fuel, (which is an extremely important topic by itself), but is about the nutrients your body needs in order to maintain itself.
The nutrients your body needs come in this order of importance:
- minerals
- enzymes
- vitamins
- protein
- all other nutrients
Nutrients are needed as spare parts for repair of cellular tissues and as catalysts or enablers of cellular operations.
When your nutrient levels are low for a particular nutrient that your body needs, it starts to misfunction in that cellular repair can’t be done right, certain processes in the body no longer occur just right and free radicals can’t be neutralized. As more and more things go wrong, cellular deterioration escalates... and although it takes many years to irreparably damage the trillions of cells in your body... eventually you will stop running — because your body’s cells are incapable of carrying on life.
There are two important concepts to remember in regard to nourishing your body. These concepts are:
- Variety of Food
- Nutrient Denseness of Food
Variety of Food
No single food contains all the nutrients the body needs. Hence, if a person gets in a habit of eating only a few foods that he or she likes, it is virtually guaranteed that this person will run low in the nutrients that missing (or low) in those particular foods. So, mix up your diet, try new foods, and always do a winter, spring, summer and fall rotation in the foods you eat. One particularly good way to do this IS TO EAT WHAT IS IN SEASON.
Nutrient-Dense Food
You should eat only foods that contribute to your health and happiness; and you should have the discipline to not eat foods that undermine your health and don’t add to your happiness.
Nutrient-empty foods aren’t worth eating unless they taste so good to you that your happiness is very positively affected... and even then, unless you really are willing to throw away many of your tomorrows for the pleasures these foods bring to the moment, you ought to save these celebration foods for “rare occasions”:
Toxic foods are discussed elsewhere and are never worth eating.
We are going to rate nontoxic foods in terms of Celebration Only, No More Than Once A Day and Staple Foods.
These are Celebration Foods and should not be eaten except rarely to celebrate:
- Processed grain products, white flour products (cakes, pastries, noodles), white-rice, etc.
- Sugary foods such as ice cream, soda pop, syrups, etc.
- Skinned vegetables such as skinned carrots, skinned potatoes, etc.
These are No More Than Once A Day Foods. They are nutritious, but provide more calories for the amount of nutrients provided than is healthy, so should be restricted to only once per day:
- Most Fruits
- Grains (whole grain bread, whole grain rice, etc.)
These are your Staple Foods and should be eaten daily as your primary foods:
- Seeds
- Vegetables
- Nuts
- Fish
- Some Foods such as Avocados and Tomatoes
- Uncooked oil extracts of all the foregoing
- Organ meats
- Eggs
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We Are What We Eat
 Hippocrates, who is considered to be the founder of modern medicine, said fifteen hundred years ago, “Let food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food. Only nature heals, provided it is given the opportunity.”
 Dr. William R. Kellas, nutritional biochemist and cofounder of the Center for Advanced Medicine, recently said, “It wasn’t until I focused on food that my health began to improve!”
Vacuum Foods
Nutritionally empty or extremely calorie rich foods are vacuum foods. We call them vacuum foods because they suck the nutrients out of whomever eats such foods. They do this because it takes more expenditure of stored body nutrients to digest, assimilate and convert foods into energy and cellular repair nutrient tools than the foods provide.
Nutrient Gain/Loss Principle:
Processing foods into energy and nutrient tools destroys existing nutrients and energy within the body. If a food provides less nutrient tools than it destroys, then that food is ‘rapidly lowering our nutrient levels’.
So, if, for example, the process of digesting and assimilating a food destroys 10 units of nutrients while supplying only 5 units of nutrients, then that food has caused a net loss of nutrients (-10 + 5 = -5).
The formula for how valuable is a particular food is:
Nutrients divided by carbs = NUTRIENT VALUE!
Sugar and Carbohydrates are Damaging to Health and Longevity
The human body functions best when it burns fat for energy instead of sugar. In order for the body to function in this “most efficient” mode, the blood stream needs to predominantly have a low amount of sugar in it. This simply means we need to eat high fat, medium protein and low carbohydrate diet. This is the new scientifically proven way of eating for optimum health and long life.
Seven Essentials, RiSoTriene, Kona Minerals, Fruit and Veggie Caps, Small Molecule Protein, etc. are especially worth eating because they furnish a lot of nutrients with very little calories.
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