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The Vital Difference Between a DIET and a NUTRITIONAL SYSTEM
What You Really Need to Know to Achieve Optimal Health and Fitness
Before I directly answer this question, a distinction between diet
and nutrition must be made. Dietetics, the study of diet, concerns
itself with only what is consumed whereas nutrition science focuses
upon exactly what is obtained from the foods eaten and furthermore
what is excreted unused.
While "dietitians" are busily recommending generically and
statistically "well-rounded" average diets to people with no real
gauge of how people are truly affected, nutritionists are concerned
with the presence of nutrients in the diet food and precisely how
well the body absorbs, retains, and utilizes these nutrients.
Obviously, applied nutrition has many more variables and controlling
factors than applied dietetics.
These variables include:
1-- individual genetic and metabolic characteristics;
2-- nutrient bio-availability in food;
3-- toxic accumulation in the body, food, and environment;
4-- neurological and endocrine activity;
5-- specific dynamic action of food;
6-- gastro-intestinal absorption efficiency;
7-- nutrient utilization by cells;
8-- enzymatic patterns and blocks;
9-- antagonism and synergism between nutrients and toxins;
10-- stress;
11-- disease states;
12-- exercise profiles;
13-- chronological and biochemical age;
14-- drug usage.
Dietetics derives information about what to eat from certain
statistical norms and theories about which foods are generally best
for the "average" individual or for those with specific diseases like
diabetes or special needs such as weight loss. An applied diet should
take into consideration current governmental recommendations and
standards regarding nutrients for both generic and special needs
relative to certain denominators of age and gender. This was why the
MDRs, RDAs, etc. were created in the first place.
The latest diet rage has been the incorporation of "zones", "blood
type", and "ketogenic diets" which superimpose certain food choices
over standard "governmentally correct" diets to achieve a healthier
metabolic balance and/or weight loss.
Metabolism, simply stated, is the biochemical conversion of food,
water, and air into body usable nutrient forms and their use for
energy production and all other bodily processes. In other words, the
total profile of all biochemical activity required to support life
equals metabolism. Balance is achieved when these relationships and
activities are sustained at peak efficiency.
An ideal metabolic balance correlates with maximum wellness given
whatever genetic blueprints are present and is the goal of both
dietetics and nutrition. In effect, the government, Dr. Sears, Dr.
D'Adamo, and Dr. Atkins (and others) would have you believe that
their diet criteria is all that is necessary for diet-instigated
perfect wellness and leanness.
This could not be further from the truth!
Why? A true nutritionist immediately knows this answer. A dietitian
and the rest of us probably don't have a clue.
Actually, there are five answers:
First, all of the above diets are based on pure theory ö not on the
scientific truth about what a given individual exactly requires from
food for optimum metabolic balance. If these were scientific, the 14
applied nutrition variables taken from the first paragraph would be
precisely measured for each person.
Second, the generic dietary suggestions given are of a one-size-fits
all nature, (with some minor theoretical personalized adjustments),
which is invalid when you consider the scientific fact that no two
people are exactly alike. From genes to biochemistry to metabolism to
life's manifestation - we are each unique with many differing needs!
Third, without the 14 applied nutrition variables taken into account,
there is no surefire way to know how well a diet is working over time
because there is no valid standard measurement of outcomes at the
biochemical level for before and after comparisons. A few pounds lost
or maybe an improved cholesterol test or self-- perceived symptomatic
reduction (placebo effect?) is all most people have to go by which is
not nearly enough to stake your well-being on.
Fourth, even the few nutritional variables derived from human
research used as guidelines to configure current diet plans are
wholly inadequate when attempting to formulate across-the-board diet
theory because of their dramatically limited scope!
Fifth, it's simply not working! More people, when nutritionally
tested exhibit more deficiencies, excesses, imbalances,
sensitivities, and diet-related disease than ever before - even those
on special diet and supplement regimens!
Actually, thereās a full-blown epidemic of degenerative
nutrition-related diseases (223 in all) smothering our society! From
fat-loss to fatigue to fibromyalgia -- current diet one-size-fits-all
diet theory doesn't work.
What does this all add up to? Simply, a diet is pure theory with no
direct body specific relevance.
A nutrition plan is by definition based upon many more direct body
specific nutrition variables than a diet plan. A real nutrition plan
or system (I prefer system over plan because it infers a more
advanced technology than plan alone) is not based on theory. Rather,
it's based upon the scientific truth of what each individual truly
requires from food at this moment and all moments to precisely feed
metabolism and genes.
Furthermore, an applied nutrition system defines our uniqueness as
individuals with few, if any, one-size-fits-all ramifications. It
also provides a scientifically valid sure fire way to measure
nutritional changes within the your body only.
What does an applied nutrition system do for me, or you, or anybody?
It accomplishes three things on the most personalized level:
First, it accounts for every mineral, vitamin, amino, fatty acid,
allergy, sensitivity, toxin, metabolic and enzymatic weakness, and
genetic requirement which defines your constitution.
Second, it provides a way to apply a completely customized,
individualized, and clinically proven nutritional program to repair
all imbalances detected.
Third, retests demonstrate exactly how your body is responding at the
deepest molecular levels.
The world of diet and nutrition has reached its final frontier. This
is the frontier of personalized nutrition where guessing about
nutritional and diet needs is completely obsolete.
There is no longer a reason to guess about what you should eat.
There is no longer a reason to subscribe to the one-size-fits-all
philosophy and highly incomplete diet theories.
There is no reason to ever shotgun, piecemeal, nor fail ever again at
attaining the greatest diet-related wellness possible.
What was once only attainable in the deepest recesses of advanced
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