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Sovereign Michael Valentine
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Special Report #2
Part of the
“I see you to succeeding"
series.
The Three Types of Nutrition
The quickie: Yay, some nutrition guidance works and some doesn’t. If you haven’t gotten results with nutrition before, it’s more likely the style of nutrition guidance more so than nutrition itself, but it could also be the quality (or lack of quality) in the supplements you're taking.
The complete answer: Based on my experiences over the last 30 years, I have classified and labeled what I consider three distinct types of nutrition and personality of each. In my own experiences working to rebuild my health and get to optimal health I encountered each type of nutrition. Some of you have experienced at least some of them and I consistently hear from people who aren’t getting the results they think they should. Here’s some of the possible reasons why:
Medicinal Nutrition:
This refers to what a lot of health care providers practice. The nuts and bolts of it are that a patient shows up with a particular health problem since their body is beginning to break down, malfunction, dys-function, manifest syndromes, symptoms, signs, aches, pains, and include over-training. They go to their provider and instead of knowing / noticing that the underlying problem is very broad, under nourishment and the health care provider tries to annihilate that one particular symptom with a very narrow focus of nutrition.
For example:
Treating high blood pressure or high cholesterol with good fats only, but neglecting the other 50 or so nutrients.
Treating heart dis-ease with niacin only (one of the B-complex vitamins).
"Prenatal" vitamins for the pregnant (women need all the B.N.B.B.s consistently, not just during pregnancy and not just with a synthetic supplement, derived from petroleum*).
Taking only vitamin D for vitamin D deficiency / osteoporosis / osteopenia (the skeleton require all the B.N.B.B.s to maximize the benefits of Vitamin D).
Taking only vitamin E for fibrocystic breast dis-ease or fibroids.
The intention of the provider might be in the right place, but the fundamental understanding of what nutrition is…or that the structure of the body is made up of all the B.N.B.B.s is missing.
The above examples include just one or two of the B.N.B.B.s, but the body requires all of the B.N.B.B.s to maintain itself and the one symptom that shows up first (e.g. high blood pressure, high cholesterol, etc.) is just sampling of what’s going on at the cellular level and a preview of what’s yet to come.
By suggesting one or two nutrients, (of the more than 50 required by the cells) amounts to what I call "chasing the symptoms though the black-forest". By waiting for a symptom to show up, there has essentially been a window for every cell of every system of the body to begin de-generating into dis-ease. Once this process begins, the chain of events is well on its way and as time goes on, more and more symptoms will begin showing up. So, with the fundamental belief that we get all we need from food and that dietary supplements are not required, the potentials of familiar or hereditary conditions have free reign. The very system of chasing the symptoms of malnutrition with prescription drugs doesn’t even work with drugs, let alone nutrition. In other words, if you wait for the symptoms to show up, it’s too late for prevention. At that point, food alone will not make up for underlying malnutrition.
The idea of a balanced diet for people who are relatively healthy is not valid.
I have heard of people on 12 - 30 different medications. Every time a new symptom arises (and often the symptom is caused by the other medications themselves) another medication is prescribed to cover up the new symptom.
No matter how much medication one takes, no amount of medication makes up for lack of nutrition.But if the health care provider doesn’t believe in nutrition …well, where does that leave the patient?
Theory-based Nutrition:
This refers to the way we shoulda’, coulda’, woulda’ wished things were in relation to food and nutrition. Food is not necessarily nutritious (duh) and nutrition isn’t necessarily in food.
The theory-based model of nutrition states that the amounts of nutrition required to maximize health and performance of the body is the same as the standards that have been set up to prevent the (outward signs) of some dis-eases such as (rickets = vitamin D) (beri beri = vitamin B1) (scurvy = vitamin C) (hypothryroidism = iodine) etc., etc.
In reality, the amounts set up as guidelines for Americans were developed during time of war in order to "ration" nutritional resources. In other words, someone figured out how deficient someone has to be to begin showing symptoms and then raised the numbers just a bit. Since then, the incredibly low standards of nutrition requirements have more to do with saving the government money than preventing dis-ease...(problem being, health care providers often mistake the money saving nutrition standards as the standards which prevent or reverse the symptoms of mal-nutrition... which they were never designed for!)
But anyone who begins to show any symptoms (whether those symptoms have been studied or not) is considered "outside the scope" of the theory-based nutrition standards…in other words, oh if you don’t match the guidelines our "book" says you should, then you fall outside the scope of our book…it’s you who is weird, not our outdated, incorrect nutrition…and nutrition doesn’t heal anything so no, supplements won’t help you, you just have to eat a balanced diet. Problem being – what theory based nutrition standards declare as balanced doesn’t provide a level of health above minimum, average health…who wants that?!
Theory-based nutrition is what most registered dieticians practice and it’s what you are likely to receive in a medical setting. The medical setting itself is designed to keep cost down and profits as high as possible. Since raising the nutrition requirements of a single vitamin in school lunches can increase the budget by billions...get it?
Does it make you wonder why those are the nutritional standards used in the medical setting and yet 14 cents of every dollar spent in America goes to medical treatment? The most recent numbers (2007) show that the 4th & 6th leading causes of death in America are from prescription medications. On average 106,000 people die each year from properly prescribed medications!
In my experiences with theory-based nutrition, I was eating 6,000 calories a day and was still not getting what I needed from food. I have known people who dropped out of the American Dietetic Association’s Registered Dietician program because they felt that they had to promote information that they had not found to be true for themselves and if they didn’t promote that information they weren’t considered in good standing with the association itself.
My main complaint with this type of nutrition is that it doesn’t seem to pay attention to the person right in front of the dietician. If you naturally have average health, they consider it proof of the effectiveness of their theory, regardless what your body composition or blood chemistry panel results show…in other words, “…no complaints?...see, it works!”..You're having health problems? "Weird!...it says in my book you should be lean & healthy!"
Some studies have shown that by increasing the required amount of a single nutrient would raise the budget for school lunch programs by billions of dollars each year! Hmmmm... food for thought, so to speak.
I’m not saying that the creators of theory-based had the intent to see what the global affects of setting nutrition standards so low that people get de-generative dis-ease. I’m not saying that the medical establishment planned it that way so that they would make more money by treating dis-ease of low level nutrition, not with nutrition, but with prescription drugs, which in themselves block, deplete and interfere with the absorption and assimilation of nutrition within the body.
But, I will say that across the board, regardless the type of health practitioner, the ones who apply the B.N.B.B.s and applied nutrition, shift gears and go on to promote applied nutrition over medicinal or theory-based nutrition. (The ones who apply it themselves teach others about it) while the ones who do not, say it doesn’t “make sense” to them…uh, yay, well if you don’t apply it, it won’t make sense will it!?
Applied Nutrition:
Applied nutrition is how I describe what I do. Knowing that the foundation of any good nutrition program must be whole foods, and that eating organically grown foods helps eliminate the poisons in the food supply, I suggest adding functional-foods (meal shake type things) and food concentrates (BNBBs) to fill in the gaps in the diet that food alone doesn't provide. In my 30 years experience I've never met anyone who ate right all the time. Nor have I met anyone who was ill because they were born with a shortage of medication. Nor has anyone died from the consumption of food concentrates, yet 106,000 people die each year from properly prescribed medications to treat (in many cases) the symptoms of poor lifestyle choices), e.g. lack of exercise and adequate nutrition.
In my personal experience, many of the health problems and naggy symptoms that the doctors told me I would have to live with simply improved or went away all together as a result of whole food, functional-foods and whole food concentrates.
With my clients, I noticed people who had struggled to simply maintain minimal progress made remarkable gains or losses by adjusting these three components.
I go so far as to track my clients' body composition levels from the beginning and every 30 days to double and triple check progress as well as have them get their blood chemistry lab tests done before and after. Generally, my clients' physicians tell them to keep doing what they are doing (direct result of the blood chemistry balancing, as a result of providing the building blocks of the body BNBBs)....I know, a medical mystery, right?!
In relation to losing weight, I find that when people have their nutritional plan dialed in they can lose up to 45 pounds of fat every eight weeks, regardless how long they have struggled prior.
To get started on a good BNBBs program today, go to my website and check out the options.
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