Now the best bit, overall common threads. This is my sort of favorite part of exercise, nutrition, um, and everything that kind of goes with health and fitness because there is only one body. There are only so many foods.
So if we can understand the body and we know the foods that are out there, what we basically find is always the same thing. So despite all these different narratives, so the cultural narrative, the ancestral narrative, the biochemical narrative, and the microbiome narrative, what we basically find, and this is what I would describe as nutritional principles. So it doesn't really matter what diet you're following, as long as it fits these nutritional principles, you're 99% of the way there.
There may be certain um differences depending on a specific condition that you have, but if we're just talking about healthy nutrition, then we're basically talking about the same thing. The first thing is eating foods as close to its natural state as possible. So, as I mentioned before, if there is a processed food that says broccoli, potato, chickpea, then we're moving in the right direction.
It's still the foods, but yes, it has been processed. Obviously, if you're eating a broccoli, if you're eating a potato, and if you're eating chickpeas, or if you're eating an egg, then you know that's essentially the natural state of the food. If you if you go to a tree and pick an apple of it, then you've got the food as close to its natural state as possible.
So, it's got the most nutrient content because as soon as you pick something, it starts to to de to devalue and essentially the rotting process begins. So, the quicker you can eat it, the more nutrients you'll get. The second thing is prioritizing of, and this is going to sound controversial, but let me finish the sentence.
It's prioritizing plant-based foods and high-fiber foods. Now, that doesn't mean that you that I'm talking about a vegan diet. That means prioritizing fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds.
Yes, have meat. Even the alkaline diet, if you read certain um authors on the alkaline diet, they will say um fish, certain fish are better than others. So again, that would be considered a a meat, let's call it.
Um but again, in the right proportions, any animal food will be absolutely fine. As I mentioned with um with sugar, if you put one gram of sugar in in your mouth once a day, it's not going to cause too much of a problem. Your body will process it.
it won't be a problem. So of with all the scaremongering that's out there with reg even with regards to red meat, it's all dose specific. So dose specific also depends on the size of the human as well because one person's small portion is another person's big portion.
So again, we have to put that into context which is why I'm saying and adding to that statement. But essentially, all diets will say fruits, vegetables, healthy oils, and they'll also have plant-based protein sources in it. That doesn't mean you shouldn't have animal-based um protein sources and fat sources as well.
I just want to make that clear. The third thing is water is the um the highest priority beverage, let's say. So, you've got all of the different beverages that are out there.
I know coffee is getting a big thing at the moment, but again, if you if you look at certain aspects of coffee, that gives you a positive health benefit. If you look at other parts of coffee, that gives you a negative health benefit, if that makes sense. So, you've got these checks and balances, whereas water is pretty much a universal solvent.
The next thing is minimizing ultrarocessed foods. The final thing is including exercise, activity and um uh lifestyle choices within it as well. So those are essentially the nutritional principles that that one needs to follow.
If you're following that, you're doing most of it right. If you've got certain um uh conditions, then there may be some adaptations to what I've just said. But for essentially healthy individuals, those are the essential uh nutritional principles that I would that I would uh talk about.
The overlap suggests that dietary success may depend on the quality of food rather than the ideology. So, as we've just gone through those five bullet points, they're talking about the quality of food rather than um the cultural aspect, the biochemistry, the microbiome, that sort of thing. These shared principles align with longstanding nutritional guidelines.
And before you jump on, I'm not talking about the food pyramid. The food pyramid is highly influenced by food companies. prior to the food pyramid coming out, which if you I don't think you can see it here, but there's a book back here called food politics, which is all about the business of food and the politics of food.
If you go before the food pyramid, I think it was meant to come out in ' 91. It came out in 93, I think. Um, they had nutritional principles, but when the food companies saw them, they said, "You can't release that.
You have to change and they made about 200 changes two years later released it and we get what we're given today. So I'm not talking about the food pyramid. There are better food guidelines that that have come out before that um that food companies didn't interfere with.
Those are the ones that I'm talking about, not the modern food pyramid that we know today that has just as of this video has just been changed in America or is being changed in America. Um, the popularity of these diets reflect broader cultural responses to rising chronic diseases, uh, confusion caused by conflicting nutritional advice. Um, and ultimately, these diets offer different explanations for essentially the same thing.
um reinforcing that diverse frameworks um often lead to the same healthy eating patterns which are those four or five different um bullet points that I talked about at the start. So that's what we have to focus on, not the individual diets that people are trying to sell us. What we have to focus on are those nutritional principles.
Eat as close to the natural form as you can. If you can get organic, even better. Focus on the plants, but eat animal foods as well.
Drnk a lot of water, minimize ultrarocessed food, and do plenty of exercise, activity, and have a essentially an active lifestyle as well. And you'll be doing 99% of it. Um, so thank you for watching.
My name is Chris from Chrisole Training. Again, if you want to learn more about this, click the link below, get the free newsletter, like, subscribe, comment, ask questions. I'd be happy to answer them.
