Complete Nutrition - Express Timeframe
These days, it seems like everyone is looking for better health, and some people have realized that better health starts with complete nutrition.
At the same time, the global economy is causing a huge time crunch, as everyone has realized they need to start working more to keep up with their lower spending power.
So how do you get complete nutrition in an express timeframe? Plan Ahead The key is in preparation.
The 'nutrition express' starts with meal planning.
Yes, we'd all like to be spontaneous about what we eat when, but the fact is, if you're getting everything you need every day -- what we call 'complete nutrition' -- then you shouldn't be having any significant burning desires for a specific food, which means you shouldn't have a problem eating according to your own meal plan.
So, how to start such a plan? Well, it starts at the beginning -- with your grocery store(s).
You need to know what is actually available in your area, and what, in general, each grocery store has low prices on.
Once you know what you can get, you can start plotting out each meal for maximum savings, maximum nutrition, and minimum prep time.
Elements of a Complete Nutrition Express meal Complete Nutrition; Express Timeframe requires your meal to achieve a balance of two elements, obviously -- complete nutrition and rapid preparation time.
Your meals should be planned so that they either cook while you are busy doing something else (Crock Pot meals or baked meals are great that way), or they can be literally pre-pared (meaning 'sliced ahead of time') like stir-fry or fajitas.
By slicing peppers and onions, grating some cheese, and marinating some meat on the weekend, you can toss it all in a pan and get some fast-cooking fajitas in 10 minutes or less midweek.
The other, much more complex, aspect of this process is of course the Complete Nutrition part of things.
This is also the much more important part.
The sheer number of nutrients your body needs to function at peak performance is staggering; fortunately, the number of simple rules you need to follow is pretty small: just three.
First: don't overcook anything.
You should eat all of your food as close to raw as you can.
Cooking destroys vitamins, enzymes, cofactors, and other important elements of your food.
This is especially true of red meat, which is absolutely wonderful for your body provided you eat it rare.
Second: eat lots of colors of plants.
Every color of vegetable and fruit has different set of nutrients in it, and you need all of those sets.
Peppers are great because they come in green, yellow, and red, and each provides different nutrients.
Try to get at least three of Yellow, Red, White, Green, and Blue/Purple in every meal.
Third: avoid sugar, flour, and other anti-nutrients.
(Don't know about anti-nutrients? You need to learn!) These all-too-common and all-too-easy "foods" actually remove vital nutrients from your body, and it's impossible to get complete nutrition when you are losing the majority of the nutrients you acquire.
So, prepare colorful, not-cooked-to-death meals that aren't loaded with anti-nutrients, and you'll be sure you're getting everything you need.
Other rules you may read or hear about -- avoiding fat or salt, eating vegetarian, et cetera -- all of them are based on experiments done outside of the human body and without understanding of the actual chemical processes that food causes once you eat it.
At the same time, the global economy is causing a huge time crunch, as everyone has realized they need to start working more to keep up with their lower spending power.
So how do you get complete nutrition in an express timeframe? Plan Ahead The key is in preparation.
The 'nutrition express' starts with meal planning.
Yes, we'd all like to be spontaneous about what we eat when, but the fact is, if you're getting everything you need every day -- what we call 'complete nutrition' -- then you shouldn't be having any significant burning desires for a specific food, which means you shouldn't have a problem eating according to your own meal plan.
So, how to start such a plan? Well, it starts at the beginning -- with your grocery store(s).
You need to know what is actually available in your area, and what, in general, each grocery store has low prices on.
Once you know what you can get, you can start plotting out each meal for maximum savings, maximum nutrition, and minimum prep time.
Elements of a Complete Nutrition Express meal Complete Nutrition; Express Timeframe requires your meal to achieve a balance of two elements, obviously -- complete nutrition and rapid preparation time.
Your meals should be planned so that they either cook while you are busy doing something else (Crock Pot meals or baked meals are great that way), or they can be literally pre-pared (meaning 'sliced ahead of time') like stir-fry or fajitas.
By slicing peppers and onions, grating some cheese, and marinating some meat on the weekend, you can toss it all in a pan and get some fast-cooking fajitas in 10 minutes or less midweek.
The other, much more complex, aspect of this process is of course the Complete Nutrition part of things.
This is also the much more important part.
The sheer number of nutrients your body needs to function at peak performance is staggering; fortunately, the number of simple rules you need to follow is pretty small: just three.
First: don't overcook anything.
You should eat all of your food as close to raw as you can.
Cooking destroys vitamins, enzymes, cofactors, and other important elements of your food.
This is especially true of red meat, which is absolutely wonderful for your body provided you eat it rare.
Second: eat lots of colors of plants.
Every color of vegetable and fruit has different set of nutrients in it, and you need all of those sets.
Peppers are great because they come in green, yellow, and red, and each provides different nutrients.
Try to get at least three of Yellow, Red, White, Green, and Blue/Purple in every meal.
Third: avoid sugar, flour, and other anti-nutrients.
(Don't know about anti-nutrients? You need to learn!) These all-too-common and all-too-easy "foods" actually remove vital nutrients from your body, and it's impossible to get complete nutrition when you are losing the majority of the nutrients you acquire.
So, prepare colorful, not-cooked-to-death meals that aren't loaded with anti-nutrients, and you'll be sure you're getting everything you need.
Other rules you may read or hear about -- avoiding fat or salt, eating vegetarian, et cetera -- all of them are based on experiments done outside of the human body and without understanding of the actual chemical processes that food causes once you eat it.
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