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Wednesday, October 21, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon Heart of Oregon... PHOTO PROVIDED Heart of Oregon Corps-YouthBuild participants raising a wall on a shared-wall home they are building in partnership with Sisters Habitat for Humanity. The wall-raising took place in the ClearPine neighborhood on Tuesday, October 13. Fit For Sisters Andrew Luscutoff Columnist Asking the wrong diet questions As a nutrition coach working with people to help them lead a more healthful life, I get questions con- stantly 4 questions such as: <Should I avoid grains?= <Does fruit have too much sugar?= <Will drinking diet soda give me head- aches and disruptions to my wellbeing?= These questions are inapplicable to 95 percent of those who are asking. You have to understand and implement the fundamen- tals of a healthy diet prior to jumping ahead to these nuances. Do you understand the role of proteins, carbohy- drates and fats in a diet and how much of each is sen- sible for health? Do you know where they come from, why too much of each is an issue? Are you eating unpro- cessed foods, plenty of fruits and vegetables, and getting adequate lean pro- teins in all meals? Are you preparing, enjoying, and taking time to fix healthy food? If you want to lose weight, what is feasible, sustainable, and enjoyable? Are you doing this consis- tently over the course of many, many consecutive days? Are you committed, do you do the basics over and over again without trouble? These are the golden rules of nutrition to achieve before asking the other questions. Here9s one that9s very common: <I don9t drink juice because it lacks nutri- ents like fiber.= Yet those three glasses of wine on a given night contradict that statement directly. Without a solid day- to-day achievement of the basics, engaging with the complexities of nutrition will be futile. These mis- takes are propagated by gatekeepers making them- selves sound like they have all the answers, like they possess the nuance and they know something the layman doesn9t. Nutrition is a thou- sand different variables and a thousand different per- sonal characteristics. The basics remain the same, and those need to be heeded before considering whether or not an apple is better than an orange. This ad sponsored by The Nugget Newspaper 21