The Myth of The Balanced Diet

You hear it every day: eat 5 servings of vegetables and fruits! Less carbohydrates! More protein! Gluten-free! It’s a wonder we actually find ANYTHING to eat in all that confusion of conflicting opinions and ‘data’.

My advice? Firstly, don’t rely on ‘official’ measures of what’s healthy what’s not – like the 5 a day or R.D.A (recommended daily allowance of nutrients). Based on inaccurate data, RDA goes as far back as the 1940s and assumes you are already healthy and just need a little top-up from your high-quality unadulterated diet.

Is your diet high -quality and unadulterated? It can’t be.

Partly because of the lethal cocktail of toxins in our environment (air, water, food) that have accumulated over the past 100 years. ?But also the additional challenges of transportation, storage and processing of foods, our inability to deal with chronic stress in healthy ways, over-medication and lack of movement.

These all contribute to struggling immunity, and dis-ease.

Solution?

I wouldn't be doing a good job if I didn't encourage you to increase your intake of organic, fresh fruit, vegetables and nutrient-rich unprocessed foods.

To about 25 or 30 DAILY servings.

Yes, you read that right.?And it’s obviously quite impossible.

This is why so many use a plethora of high-quality supplements, knowing food no longer provides ALL the nutrients required for health – however amazing one’s ‘diet’ is.

The ‘missing link’, however, is the fact that without a healthy gut, you won’t absorb sufficient amounts of nutrients (from food or supplements) and will most definitely be “..wasting your money on vitamin and mineral supplements” (John. Hopkins University School of Medicine, 2019).

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