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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.
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