Holistic Health Coaching: Ok tell me what to eat

Hmm should I really presume I know more than you do on this area. I mean were all nutritionists right, cause we all eat and watch cooking shows, * This is kind of like my registered dietician friends writing on lung disease and rehabilitation or exercise conditioning. But the field of food, and what we eat is really not limited in knowledge to one field (dietetics), really anyone who wants to study something, can. They just need to be careful that their sharing truth, (LOL) cause every personal trainer isnt a food and nutrition expert.

Rather than give a long winded explanation of my philosophy on this topic, allow me the simplicity of spelling out some specifics.

Eat as much food as you can the way it came off the tree or out of the ground and choose Organic whenever possible(within your budget). Eating the refined packaged version of the real food will cause you to end up getting far fewer micronutrients (chromium, B vitamins, enzymes, etc..) with the same or more macronutrients (fats, protein, carbs) calories.. THIS WILL MAKE YOU FAT AND POSSIBLY ADD TO ILL HEALTH.

* I worked on a study back in undergrad testing strong antioxidant/antiinflammatories on healing (Vit C, Vit E, Bromelain and a bunch of other stuff compounds) Guess what? Bromelain is found in high concentration pineapples, especially the stem. You may just choose a bromelain pill but choosing the whole food source is always the best choice.

If your metabolic type suggests you would thrive on some percentage of meat products then eat animal meat that grazed on healthy food and soil (free range, grass fed, organic, chemical and hormone free etc..) Try wild meats, they tend to have less saturated fats in their tissues. Of course meatless (soy) burgers can get you substantial protein but remember that wonderful compound known as Hemeoglobin (which binds to oxygen in gas form to transport it in your blood) has heme and non heme iron forms. The heme form which is for making hemeoglobin can only be found in red meat. There I said it, some people need red meat, just healthy red meat.

As far as fat sources and oils are concerned (yes everyone needs to eat some healthy fats), remember that fats oxidize easily in the presence of oxygen(create free radicals and become unstable in their chemistry when heated too high.)This will hurt your cells and lead to some form of premature disease because all your cell membranes, whether its your pancreas, liver, muscle or brain tissue are surrounded by a membrane partly composed of fats(and you need to replace these regularly with healthy fats. For a list of healthy oils check out this site. http://drbenkim.com/articles-oils.html

Coconut milk and oil contains lots of lauric, and caprylic fatty acids(which yes are saturated, but are comprised mainly of medium chain fats. So they dont take much effort at all to be transported into your mitochondria for burning via beta oxidation. (Hey I have to throw out a few terms to make me feel like taking biochemistry and metabolism courses was useful.

Start drinking 3/4 gallon of water or more per day(start filtering your water and buy a insulated container to bring this fresh water with you to your work station.) Ever wonder why your workouts suck and your heart rate is soaring, cause your probably dehydrated and have less blood volume. Not to mention the last time I checked we both have 2 kidneys which require lots of water to filter all the crap out of our bodies.

The following is a high end shopping list of prepared very nutrient dense foods. Afterall You are what you eat

Breakfast foods:

Arrowhead Mills: Organic blue corn pancake and waffle mix
Arrowhead Mills: Organic whole grain pancake and waffle mix
Food For Life:     Ezekial cinnamon raisin bread and 4:9 cereal
Peace Cereal:      Vanilla Almond or maple pecan crisp cereal
Natures path:       Optimum Slim cereal, optimum power breakfast cereal
Natures path:       Organic instant oatmeal
Health Valley:      Organic raisin bran flakes, organic oat bran flakes
Old Wessex Ltd:  Irish Style oatmeal, 5 grain cereal
Ancient Harvest: Organic quinoa flakes
Edensoy:              Organic Soymilk, rice and soy blend milk.
Rice Dream:         Rice milk
Silk:                     Coconut milk, almond milk
Zen bakery

AHHHHHHH Real Food

Other healthy brands of prepared meals for lunch and dinners

Amys Organic
Cascadian Farms
Dr. Praegers
Dr. Oetker Organics
Dagoba
Earth Balance
Eddies
Essential Living Foods
Fantastic Foods
Food For Life
Glorias kitchen -vegan prepared entries
Garden of Eatin
Gardein
Gardenburger
Hain Pure Foods
Health best 100% organic
Health is Wealth
Kookie Karma
Lauras Wholesome Junk Food
Lightlife
Lundberg family farms
Lifestream
Lightlife
Maranatha
Morningstar farms
Nates
Newmans Own
Now and Zen
Nasoya
Pastariso
Rising moon organics
Rudis Organic Bakery
Spectrum Naturals
Terra
Tree of Life
Tropical Source
Udo's
Uncle Eddie's
Westbrae
Whole Foods Market Brand
Yves

Now just put together meals including some of these prepared brands along with healthy meats, oils, and plenty of fresh fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, seeds and as long as your not an idiot stopping at Kyrstals or Burger King 2-3 x a week, you cant help but become highly healthy.