CONTROLLING YOUR DIET IN THE NEW YEAR

BY: FITZ-GEORGE RATTRAY

Controlling your diet, weight, fitness and health in the New Year.

Another new inspiring year, but the same old uninspired body; that is the reality for many of us here in the beginning of the New Year. Fortunately as always there are two possible paths ahead:

CHOOSE THE RIGHT PATH

1. Controlling your diet, body weight, fitness levels can drastically increase your chances of being healthy for many years to come
2. Continue to imagine change as a struggle, something you “must do”,  but perpetually fail at, or something you hope to hasten, sprint through, hoping that rapid changes in the scale will give you the motivation to push through the challenges. Or, perhaps, you will continue to imagine that:
3. all is well
4. you eat “well enough”
5. you are not that heavy
6. your last checkup was okay
7. the worst cannot happen to you

Sadly, statically a few of you reading this article, or someone you know will not see the New Year in good health, or at all.

FIVE STEPS TO HEALTH AND WELLNESS

The goals seem simple, do not eat more calories than you expend, exercise more, eat less processed foods and more vegetables and fruits.  Unfortunately as simple as some people would gloat and announce that it is, there is more to wellness. Researchers have found that:

1. For best health a daily intake of 12 different plant sources is essential
2. Prebiotics are more effective in maintaining a healthy gut than probiotics
3. A poor gut microbiome can result in several illnesses including depression
4. Weight resistance training is more important for fat loss than cardio
5. As important as fruits are more than two servings of fruit (>25 grams of sugar worth) can be detrimental to your health  …  and there is so much more.

Knowledge acted upon is power. The reality is, without acting on facts like these, an increasing number of young people are dying from nutritionally related causes each year, as well as an escalating shocking number of adults.  Chances are you already know someone who was too young, too vital to have died from cancer, stroke or cardiovascular disease. 

MAKE THE CHANGE FOR YOU

This year, make the change, stop following common “knowledge”, documentary, fad or guru based choices. Put in the effort to learn the tried and proven, updated, peer reviewed science based facts.  Get help if you need it, and this year, save a life, save your future. This year, next year, the next ten years, this effort will save you. No more surrendering to marketing, custom, habits and addictions. Control your diet, your weight, your fitness and your health.