10 Tips to Optimal Nutrition

Have you ever wondered if you could make 10 choices to positively impact your health what would they be?

After all if you are not making yourself healthy, are you making yourself unhealthy?

Is there really a neutral ground?

Here is one way to look at it. With each healthy choice you make on a daily basis you are moving closer to the health and vitality you want to experience from this day forward. Of course the other side of the coin is ... with every unhealthy choice you are making you are moving your self away from the optimal life you deserve. Just think the body you have is the one that is going to take you the rest of the way.

And how far would that be? What is the rest of the way. Depends on who you ask.

Financial Planners encourage us to plan to 98 years old. Time magazine reported for those who were born before 1979 ... 1 in 25 of us will live to be 100. For those who were born after 1979 ... 1 in 10 will live to be 100 years old. Anti-aging experts say we can live to 120 years old, National Geographic published and devoted an entire issue to aging with vitality for those who are currently living 100+ years. (For fun go to www.realage.com to calculate your real age, yikes!)

What is your personal goal for longevity and vitality? How far are you going?

When I worked at the hospital I met a man who was 99 years old. I ask him how it was going. His response was "If I knew I was going to live this long I would have made taken better care of myself."

What are you going to say when you are 99 years old?

10 Tips to Optimal Health

1. 1 tablespoon of ground seeds or seed oil. (such as flax)

2. 2 servings of beans, lentils, quiona, tofu

3. 3 Pieces of fruit such as apples, berries, pears, melon

4. 4 servings of whole grains - brown rice, millet, rye, oats, whole wheat, quiona

5. 5 servings of dark green leafy & root vegetables - carrots, sweet potatoes, broccoli, spinach

6. 6 glasses of water, herb teas

7. Eat organic when ever possible

8. Supplement
(I recommend Juice Plus+, Carlson Vitamin D3 and Nordic Naturals Omega 3)

9. Avoid fried, burnt, browned food, hydrogenated fats and excess animal fat

10. Avoid any form of sugar, chemical additives, alcohol, coffee or tea. No more than 1 glass of wine/alcohol per day.

Source: Holford, Paul. The New Optimum Nutrition Bible.