Food & Dietary Principles
In This Lab...
Orientation to Food & Dietary Principles
Principle 1: Priority #1 is to Meet Our Requirements to Optimize Our Function
Principle 2: Our Requirements Have Evolved Over Millions of Years
Principle 3: Our Differences Extend to Our Diets & Eating Habits
Principle 4: Nourishment is a Process of Personal Exploration & Discovery
Principle 5: Our Body-Mind Functions on Nourishment, Not Restriction
Principle 6: Our Environment & Lifestyle Choices Shift Our Nutritional Needs
Principle 7: Create a Healthy, Sustainable, Lifelong Relationship with Food & Eating
Principle 8: Minimize Our Exposure to Contaminants, Toxins & Hormones
Principle 9: Focus on Our Results, Not Our “Diets”
Principle 10: How We Feel About Our Food & Eating Habits Matters – A Lot!
Key Takeaways
Why Soil Health Matters
Soil Quality Trends
The Soil Microbiome
How Soil Health Impacts Our Health - Directly
Soil Health and Climate Health are Inseparable
In Summary
Regenerative Farming Resources
Hypoallergenic Rotary Diversified Diet
Days 1–4 Sample Hypoallergenic Rotary Diversified Diet
Alkaline Broth Recipe
Polyphenol Booster Recipe (Substitute Meal or Snack)
Meal Prep Habits Snapshot
Food Quality Decision Tree
Protein Planner
High Protein Meal Combinations
Printable Food Quality Decision Tree
Key Habits
Food & Dietary Principles Checklist
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AT A GLANCE
There are many that make compelling arguments for what, when, and how we eat, being the most important lifestyle choice we can make to decrease our risk to preventable diseases and increase our healthspan. Yet, walking through the diet section of a bookstore, or searching diet information on the internet, can be a confusing and frustrating experience. Complicating matters, consulting with health professionals results in almost as many different perspectives and related advice. How is a person to know what to do and whose advice to follow?
At V-Metrics, we choose to guide on principle, first and foremost, by focusing on the principles that successful transformation and improvements in vitality and function are founded on. They encourage healthy, sustainable habits and produce beneficial long-term results when followed. We empower our members to make the best choices from the options available, in each encounter with food.
In engaging this Lab, you will become more informed and skillful in choosing what to eat, when to eat it, and how much of it to eat, to achieve your goals, without sacrificing your enjoyment.
And before you jump to any conclusions that “you already know enough about nutrition” we encourage you to explore this Lab and the novel approaches we encourage within it.
At V-Metrics, we choose to guide on principle, first and foremost, by focusing on the principles that successful transformation and improvements in vitality and function are founded on. They encourage healthy, sustainable habits and produce beneficial long-term results when followed. We empower our members to make the best choices from the options available, in each encounter with food.
In engaging this Lab, you will become more informed and skillful in choosing what to eat, when to eat it, and how much of it to eat, to achieve your goals, without sacrificing your enjoyment.
And before you jump to any conclusions that “you already know enough about nutrition” we encourage you to explore this Lab and the novel approaches we encourage within it.
HEALTH SCENE INVESTIGATION
- Do you believe you can function at a high level and explore your potential physically and mentally without optimizing your nourishment?
- Do you believe you are presently optimizing your provision of essential nutrients to your body-mind?
- Do you get caught up in thinking and feeling that it’s too difficult and requires a lot of willpower to ensure your nourishment?
- Do you struggle with making more nourishing choices and find yourself eating foods and drinking beverages which you know are inconsistent with your health, vitality, and body composition goals?
HYPOTHESIS
How you nourish yourself matters, and more than you likely realize. Your relationship with food matters as well, and more than you likely realize. To improve how you nourish yourself in lasting ways requires you to deepen your understanding of the fundamental principles of nourishment and to explore how you respond to them. The information, guidance, and tools provided in this Lab will assist you in doing so in practical fashion. In doing so, you will find yourself enjoying and appreciating your meals and mealtimes more than ever while you enjoy improvements in how you feel, function and look.