Nutrition & Diet

 

EAT RIGHT FEEL LIGHT

The best diets are those that work well for an individual's body. We are all wonderfully unique in tastes and preferences, but there are some key elements to follow when considering the best foods for our body. Our body type defines our metabolism. The exercises we perform, can both sustain health, as well as alter genetical body shape. Our focus on which foods to choose or avoid, – those with good fats, anti-inflammatory benefits and those for ensuring digestive health, – this knowledge will greatly improve chances of staying healthy, increasing fitness levels as well as for optimising performance with defining muscle type, tone and size.

Diets For Body Type

Paleo (AKA caveman) diet and high-fat Keto diet (or similarly Atkins), have brought many people positive results when maintaining body weight, in reducing body fat, when recovering from allergies, ailments, chronic diseases and for experiencing overall improvements in body/mind performance. 

Blood type can determine the personality and food preferences of the individual. Ancient practices for managing foods fit for body type, have been passed down over the millennia. Ayervedic and Chinese principles, centre on the elemental and seasonal properties for determining personality (via free online testing), identifying which foods retain balance to the body, improve energy and which foods can create imbalance and depleted energy.

Complimentary to diets are the practices of fasting. Water fasts can be the best way to purify the syestem and the benefits can be felt in the body as organs purge toxins and the digestive system repairs itself – ranging from one day, ten day or 21 day challenges. Lymph system drainage is another powerful diet called The Mucusless diet, which can be centred around herbal teas for digestion purges and additional green vegetable cold press juices, with coffee enemas to really clean the liver and lower colon also. Alternative intermittent fasting can also help regulate hunger cravings, improve self-discipline 

Sustainable Farming

Modern agriculture techniques, optimised to feed the world's burdening demands, are continually evolving through research & development programs to discover better ways of increasing yield. Pest control & weather management measures to improve crop resilience, has scientifically advanced to such an extent, that some crops are expected to see a ten-fold increase in yield through gene & protein modifications. Faster growth harvests, denser plantations, longer artificial seasons and shorter crop-rotation turnaround periods, means we have an abundance of low-cost readily-available foods all year round. Like all things rushed, corner-cutting with nature, usually implies a pay-off.

Genetically Modified Food

Many studies carried out on GMO foods appear to indicate some correlations between GMO and cancer, but the data isn't sufficient to show direct causality to GMO foods. However, it's clear that the ingredients used in pesticides, and herbicides and spliced directly into the genetics of the crop – can themselves, cause DNA altering affects in the body. 

Controlled laboratory tests on animals are not an accurate measure to determine pathogenic causes of illness in humans and the argument that so many people would be dropping dead after a generation of GMO foods being widely used in America, is also not an indicator of the health implications. America has predominantly adopted GMO food for the production of Soya beans, Potatoes, corn and tomatoes. The ongoing battle for labelling foods, and giving people's right to know which foods are GM-free, currently rages on. 

As the many documentaries on foods indicate, the corrupt foods industry regulators and the observable hazards of ingesting GMOs clearly appear to show, that foods can be a panacea or a poison.

Due to the many environmental toxins, it's proven difficult to sway regulators against restrictions on GMO foods – especially when they seem to offer a solution to sustainable population growth. Choosing organic produce, is said to be a far better option, as the pesticides used, do not contain the secret ingredients – those suspected to cause learning problems, such as glyphosphate.

Herbicides & Pesticides

Vegetables and fruit sprayed with organophosphorus compound pesticides containing Acetylcholine, are known as toxins which cause illness. Monsanto – a company infamous for creating DTT & Dioxine agent orange, now owned by Bayer since 2018 – has been at the forefront of designing genetically modified seeds, technology and chemicals for increasing crop yields.

The dozen foods most prone to absorbing harmful chemicals, such as those found in herbicides & pesticides, are also some of the staples found in our shopping baskets – such as apples, tomatoes, potatoes and spinach. 

Enzymes & Anti-oxidants
Aside from claims that organic foods contain higher levels of healthy nutrients, organic foods are also claimed to be richer in anti-oxidants such as glutathione. Fresh, uncooked fruit and vegetables contain digestive enzymes, plus enzymes we need for enhancing vitality and for ensuring immune responses and clean-up systems are properly equipped to remove any free radicals and harmful toxins. 

Wholesale Foods

For the freshest produce and most ethical suppliers of high-grade meats, fruit and vegetables, sourcing from accredited farms is one way to assure the quality of our foods, but for purchases made at high street grocers, trusting the farms is something we leave to our grocer.  Many products are bought wholesale, with price determining the sale, not the source of the produce. Not knowing the source of the third party supplier, created a market of deception, creating the horsemeat, Pangas and Tilapia scandals in Europe. 

Farmed fish are claimed to contain higher levels of toxins (absorbed in the fat), plus infected with parasites and diseases caused by cramped conditions and contaminated water. Generally, the cooperative supermarkets, local fishmongers, butchers, fruit and vegetable supplies, can be a better and sometimes more cost-effective source for buying food – over trusting share-price focussed high street supermarkets.

Bio-Organic Farming is a farming technique based on esoteric principles, lunar cycles, soil regenerative rotations and non-synthetic chemicals being used in the soil. The bio-organic movement of sustainable farming is steadily gaining interest globally. Coupled with permaculture practices, desire for inner-city farms and home hydroponic systems is paving the way for more folks to manage and grow their own fresh produce. 

Original link to FFC blog post here.