7 KEYS TO GOOD NUTRITION

Based on extensive research involving healthy cultures, hormonal implications relating to body and obesity and anti-aging studies, here are seven important components of healthy eating:

1. Under eat at every meal and be mindful of the food you eat. Avoid eating to complete fullness.


2. Always eat breakfast and try to avoid skipping any meals.


3. Eat small meals every two to four hours throughout the day.


4. Always eat a protein-rich or healthy-fat (or healthy fat) food with each meal. Healthy protein-rich foods include legumes, fish, low-fat cottage cheese, chicken, turkey, eggs, low-fat milk and low-fat cultured dairy products, such as yogurt and kefir. Healthy-fat foods include nuts, seeds, cold-water fish, olives and avocados.


5. Minimize or avoid late night eating. Going to bed on an empty stomach stimulates
   fat-burning and anti-aging hormones during sleep.


6. Eat as close to nature as possible and reduce your consumption of processed foods.
   Eat more “God-foods” (natural) and less “man-foods” (processed).


7. Avoid eating “foods that kill” like artificial sweeteners, high fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated or trans-fats, MSG (mono sodium glutamate), hormones found in milk
   and many meats, food additives, food coloring, pesticides on produce, fried foods and
   especially sugary (junk) foods.