A New-tritional Perspective

1. A New-tritional Perspective

2. WATER

3. There is a huge gap in knowledge regarding the understanding as to why proper hydration is important for health, and for competitive success as well.

4. Humans are water beings. We form during 9 months in a water-filled environment called a womb. Our blood is water based, as is our brains. Without water, minerals are worthless and vice verse.

5. We consume water for one reason - HYDRATION - which means, we are consuming useable hydrogen ions primarily. We should strive to choose the best water with the most free hydrogen ions available.

6. The human brain is composed of 95% water; blood is 82% water; the lungs are nearly 90% water.

7. Water is also the single most critical nutrient for health, growth, and development. It is not only the most important nutrient in the body, but also the most abundant.

8. Water is critical to the balance of all the body's systems, including the brain, heart, lungs, kidneys and muscles.

9. A 2% drop in body water can cause a critical shrinkage of the brain, which can impair neuromuscular coordination, decrease concentration, and slow thinking.

10. Dehydration can also reduce endurance, decrease strength, cause cramping and slow muscular response.

11. Mild dehydration is one of the most common causes of daytime fatigue. Estimates are that seventy-five percent of Americans have mild, chronic dehydration.

12. Proper hydration is required for maintaining healthy blood flow, proper kidney function, proper sodium/potassium /electrolyte balance and proper digestive functions.

13. Water can suppress the appetite naturally and increases the body's ability to metabolize stored fat. A decrease in water intake will cause fat deposits to increase, while an increase in water intake will reduce fat deposits.

14. This is thought to occur because a reduction in water decreases the efficiency of the kidney's, which results in some of the kidney's functions being shunted to the liver.

15. Since one of the liver's primary functions is to metabolize stored fat into usable energy for the body, it metabolizes less fat while performing functions normally performed by the kidney's. This results in less stored fat burned, and a reduction in weight loss.

16. Drinking increased amounts of water is the best natural treatment for fluid retention. As many bodybuilders already know when the body gets less water, it perceives this as a threat to survival and begins to hold on to every drop.

17. Water is stored in extracellular spaces (outside the cell) which can result in swollen extremities (feet, legs and hands).

18. FOOD

19. We are digging our own graves with a fork and spoon!

20. By eating the wrong foods, like a high fructose diet, we can precipitate health disasters.

21. The current view of nutrition we have all grown up with is completely wrong.

22. Nutrition is held in our collective consciousness as the poor stepchild that nobody wants to take care of, and everybody feels guilty about not paying attention to.

23. It is probably important, we think to ourselves, but because we wrongly assume that it has something to do with soybeans and vegetarianism—then we don’t want to investigate it.

24. We assume nutrition has nothing to do with the appearance or disappearance of disease. Since MDs don’t talk about nutrition, we just assume that it is of minor importance.

25. The only thing more important than nutrition is breathing. Proper nutrition is the key to health and longevity. It is the magic bullet that eliminates most chronic disease.

26. It is the absolute and unimpeachable King of all Medical Treatments. Nothing else even comes close to being able to produce the healing effects that properly applied Clinical Nutrition does.

27. Raw materials are required by all living organisms. The obvious raw materials to sustain life, maintain and repair tissues and organs, support reproduction, and support longevity, are oxygen, water, and food.

28. All nourishment and all food comes from the soil, either directly or indirectly. The sun provides the energy to manufacture the carbon-based macronutrients (carbohydrates, fats, and proteins) and micronutrients like vitamins.

29. The earth’s crust—the soil—is the source of all our non-carbon-based raw materials like minerals. But, unfortunately, soil and its mineral composition does not occur in a uniform blanket around the crust of the earth.

30. Soil is not homogenous, but is a highly variable combination of raw materials. It is also a mixture of living organisms such as bacteria, fungi, protozoa, organic material (humus), and inorganic substances (minerals).

31. People worldwide with the same basic genetic makeup do not have the same opportunity for health and longevity because of the wide variations in the chemical make-up of the soil.

32. Most everything you know about nutrition is wrong, and the key to a healthy and long life is nutrition.

33. Your MD is completely clueless about nutrition. MDs are completely incapable of helping you to eliminate chronic disease—they are only able to help you manage it.

34. Doctors today are aware that diet plays a significant role in the development and progression of the major diseases afflicting modern man—heart disease, diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, and many kinds of cancers.

35. MDs die at an average age of 59 in the US. How can these people “fix” your body? They can’t even “fix” their own bodies.

36. Exactly what can and does an MD provide you and your cells, tissues, organs, and body that will in any manner regenerate, rebuild or remodel your organic cells?

37. Absolutely Nothing!

38. Your body heals itself with the organic materials you provide it.

39. By eating the correct balance of foods we can almost medicinally alter what goes on inside us in a healthful way.

40. The human body requires 91 essential nutrients to function properly.

41. It is impossible to get all 91 of these nutrients from our food.

42. Over time, unless nutritional supplements are added into the diet, the body will develop nutrient deficiencies.

43. When the nutrient deficiencies get big enough, something breaks, and disease is borne.

44. If the deficient nutrients are put back into the body before the diseased tissue reaches its point of no return, the body will repair itself and eliminate the disease.

45. Your MD is completely clueless about this!

46. Your MD may be the nicest person alive. He may be a member of Rotary. She may give free physicals to poor families, or volunteer to feed the homeless.

47. No matter how good, kind and decent a person they may be, your MD is completely CLUELESS about nutrition and therefore is completely unable to help you to regain your health.

48. As a result, most Americans spend the last twelve years of their lives in misery, suffering from some combination of debilitating diseases.

49. The interface between the soil and human life is the farmer and rancher who raise the crops—grains, vegetables, fruit—and livestock, including cattle, hogs, sheep, poultry, and fish, which first consume the minerals and other raw materials from the soil.

50. Since the beginning of time, farmers and ranchers have universally been the first to suffer from, benefit from, and recognize the variations in the land’s ability to produce crops and livestock as well as deficiencies of nutrients in the soil.