The fact is you can do all the exercise in the world but if your diet consists of processed, poor quality foods you will never truly be 100% healthy. Optimal health and vitality is reached through a combination of exercise and healthy eating, consisting of “real”, whole, unprocessed foods that are fresh and contain all the raw building blocks your body requires to function at its full potential.
There are three main keys to a healthy diet:
1. Eat the right balance of foods. We recommend you follow the 90/10 theory - if you consume high-quality, nutritious foods 90% of the time, then your body will be at a healthy enough level to absorb and detoxify an occasional splurge here and there as long as is doesn’t exceed 10% of your total diet.
2. Eat the right quantity.Our bodies are designed to be very efficient fat storers. This helps us survive during times of little food. Fortunately we live in an age where food is abundant and plentiful and we don’t need to forage and hunt anymore. But of course the catch twenty-two of that is we've become accustom to eating more than our bodies require, and in many cases eat foods are bodies don’t need at all. We eat when we’re bored, when we’re stressed and even just to be polite and social. These are all aspects that need to be balanced out in order to achieve a healthy diet. We need to remember why we are eating and work on developing better alternatives to cope with stress and boredom. As for social occasions, it’s just a matter of avoiding unnecessary over indulgence and balancing out any occasional splurges with the rest of our overall diet.
3. Eat small, frequent meals. Rather than skipping meals, we recommend you eat small regular meals throughout the day in order to keep your engines of metabolism burning high. A great analogy to think of here is that of a campfire. If you immediately dump large logs on and allow them to burn almost all the way out and then put another set of large logs on, it’s going to take much longer to burn than if you were to constantly feed that fire with smaller or medium sized twigs and logs, and kept the fire burning high.