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Eating Well is About Seeing Food as Fuel, While Still Enjoying Food

August 13, 2015 by Jessica 1 Comment

Nutritional Nourishment By: Aubrie Pohlkid stuffing face

At its simplest, food is fuel.

Your body is so amazing that it is able to break down that food into its macronutrients and micronutrients, and then reassemble those into your cells and provide you with the energy that enables you to grow and thrive towards your greatest potential.

However, there is a catch…

Your body is only as amazing as the material it has to work with.

green and red healthy foodThe quality of the food you put into your amazing body has a huge impact on your health!

What we eat and drink can have a powerful effect on our ability to perform, our mental clarity, and stress levels.

Since food fuels bodily processes, it makes sense that nutrient dense food encourages optimal overall function.

…. But there is a mass epidemic in our country.

A disconnection of the correlation between food and health.

The “Standard American Diet”, also known as SAD…. is sad!!

It’s a diet high in processed foods, high in cholesterol and saturated fats, rich in animal proteins and fats, and low in fiber, complex carbohydrates, and vegetables.

Our portion distortion and love affair with calories is critically short of many nutrients our bodies need to function properly.

However, a simple change in diet can create a profoundly positive impact on our physical and mental functioning.

Eat less crap

Your Body is Your Nutritionist

Before the advent of our industrialized food system, a convenience culture with more care about sales than sustenance, we learned proper nutrition by being in tune with our satiety levels and sane food habits.

We are currently living in a paradox of health.

Never before have Americans had more awareness of health and nutrition… and never have we been unhealthier.

With a pandemonium of information constantly contradicting one another, it’s easy to get overwhelmed.

Our appetite intuition has been replaced with food labels, apps, book, blogs, and diet crazes stating what foods should or shouldn’t be consumed!

So we seek knowledge of nutrition not by listening to our bodies but by listening to what the media says.

We aren’t paying attention to how we feel, but to how many calories we are eating.

We are relying more on abstract ideas that our intuitive wisdom.

What to Eat?Your body loves you

Every body is different.

We all have different genetics and different dietary requirements.

Some foods will impair functioning and drain your energy while others will allow you to prosper and flourish.

Many of us are too distracted by daily affairs to bring awareness to the effects of certain foods in our system.

A balanced, natural diet full of whole foods is without a doubt filled with the macronutrients and micronutrients to support physical and mental functioning to enjoy robust health and feel satisfied.

The macronutrients are the energy-giving components of foods; the carbs, proteins, and fats.

The micronutrients are the essential vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants to give you proper nourishment.

healthy food collageEat foods with no labels.

Shop only around the perimeter of the grocery store.

Eat without distractions and notice how certain foods make you feel.

If you see a food that is not something your great-grandparents ate when they were young, disregard it.

Drink water all day, every day.

The nutritional components in food power both the body and mind.

Appreciate every bite, every morsel, and learn to trust your body’s signal that it’s nourished.

After all, a healthy outside starts from the inside.

 

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Cut Up to 900 Calories With Simple Substitutions

December 28, 2009 by ptpt 5 Comments

nutritionLosing weight for most of us starts with making better choices throughout each day.

We are bombarded with calorie filled, sugary foods that lead to fat bellies and flabby buns.  Here is a example of our how small choices can lead to a big reduction in calories.  Check out this table.

Here are 5 tips to making better food choices:

  1. Be conscious of what you eat
  2. Go Grocery shopping
  3. Keep good food available at home and at work
  4. Don’t allow yourself to get really hungry
  5. Stop drinking soda and drink plenty of clean water

There is not a magic diet. 

Healthy eating comes from making better choices everyday.  Shoot for improving each week and you will be happy with the body you create over the next few months.

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Got big thighs?

January 14, 2009 by ptpt 2 Comments

Question

Is there a better way to train, especially women, who have bigger legs and thighs? I have heard that high impact training not be right for them.

Answer

What a great question. The answer requires some background in Functional Anatomy and Serial Distortion Patterns. Let us discus. Serial distortion patterns develop over a period of time. They are very insidious in nature. One of the most common patterns has to do with women who wear high heels and sit for a large part of the day. High heels do not just mean 8 inch stilettos. Most tennis shoes people wear are considered high heels. If the heel of the shoe is built up at all, it is considered a high heel. This would constantly keep the calf in a shortened position. This shortened position tends to make the foot roll out laterally. The foot rolled out would in turn roll out the tibia. The tibia rolled laterally would place stress at the knee and eventually lead to a lateral rotation at the femur. This would shorten the biceps femoris and the piriformis. Because she sits for a large part of the day, we can assume that her hip flexors, especially the iliopsoas, will also be shortened. When the hip flexors are shortened, the hip extensors are lengthened. The hip extensors are the glutes. Thus, the glutes are not strong and tend to look flabby. It also tends to be the area in which women generally hold any extra adipose tissue they may have. The femurs are rolled out and the greater trochanter sticks out to give the appearance of an even larger hip complex. I would also wonder if she has lower back problems. Most people with this type of serial distortion will incur low back pain.

Another common sign that this serial distortion pattern is occurring is to check her IT band. The IT band is located on the outside of the femur from the knee up to the hip. If she were to roll her IT on a pliofoam roller and mention some extreme discomfort, we are on the same page.

Now that we may have determined what is going on, what do you do? There are some general guidelines to follow. We need to loosen what is tight and tighten what is loose. This is easier said then done. I agree with your earlier comment that she should stay away from high impact events, at least at first. We need to prepare her for impact events before she starts that type of routine. Currently, with the imbalances that are occurring in her body, a high impact program would increase her chances of injury significantly. I would say that the most important part of her program would be flexibility. You must establish proper length-tension relationships before we place outside stress to the structures. We must stretch the calves and hip flexors. Please refer to the stretching exercises in that portion of PT on the Net.com. After we have stretched her out, the program should incorporate many exercises involving the glutes. Both the gluteus maximus and medius need to be addressed. We can accomplish this most efficiently by having her stand up while performing her exercises. One must have an adjustable cable column or a set of resistance tubing to do this most effectively. I would like to recommend the Ground Zero adjustable cable column or the LifeFitness dual adjustable pulley. Another helpful hint is to have her try to do her exercises either in a squat type position or even done standing on one leg and alternating legs between the sets. Standing on one leg and making sure the opposite side hip does not drop will concentrate on the standing side gluteus medius. This technique will actually burn more calories than traditional weight training and will focus on her specific needs of working the lumbo-pelvic-hip complex more efficiently. Thank you for your thought provoking question. Let us know if there are any other training scenarios we can help you with.

Mike DeMora M.S., BCET, PES

Innovative Results

Filed Under: Blog, Movement - Exercise Tagged With: big thighs, calories, functional, Movement - Exercise, woman workout, workout

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