Nutrition Basics

Welcome back to our "Liv as long as you dare" channel.

It's great to have you here continuing to learn about the journey to extend your life adding healthy and

Have you started reading "Liv as long as you dare", By Len Heflic?

I'm sure you are finding many good ideas to add to the topics we discussed in previous videos and hope you are

moving forward with those recommendations And you are building your own plan.

During our earlier deliveries, we discussed about the relevance of building a vision for our project to extend

our lives,  by introducing several changes to our daily routines, and discussed a simple and straight forward

We also discussed about the importance of facing our lives with a positive and happy attitude, so those years

we add can be joyful and full of laughter.

That would be a great reason to add more years to our lives.

We all want to have a bigger share of happiness!

In this third delivery, we will start touching on a very significant topic that will enable us to extend our

A topic that is almost completely under our control and we can manage to introduce change with very few

Yes, it will require some learning and also unlearn some common concepts.

Nutrition is a complex and ever growing field of physiology.

My intent for today is to get you interested in learning about nutrition and clarify some basic concepts about

it and the relevant impact that our diet has on our health...

Human nutrition is a complex and developing science.

There are still many areas that are being researched as we prepared this video and will come out in the

Don't worry, we will be making updates to keep you well informed and will continue to do our research to help

Studying human nutrition is complex, because in order to identify, with an acceptable level of certainty, what

is the effect of a certain food, or type of foods, in human health, we need to be able to conduct a study for

long periods of time, that can be measured in years, and control the diet of the people  being studied.

You can imagine that this is not a simple task, since it is very difficult to control somebody's diet for long

and to do it in a big group, so the experiment would have statistical significance, is virtually impossible.

That is why you can find out there many studies that advertise "magic foods"

or miracle solutions, when in reality they only have part of the story considered in their studies to back up

It is perfectly understandable that we would like to have a single solution for our nutritional problems.

Fortunately that is not the case  there is no need to eat every day the same food.

One of the most powerful concepts in nutrition is that a good diet CAN be delicious and nutritious.

We don't necessarily have to eat cardboard tasting food to be healthy!

Life is supposed to be happy and joyful, right?.

Well, eating is one of the pleasures in life...

We must enjoy eating and share these happy moments with people we care about.

Share our meals is also a way to connect and share joy.

The key for a good nutrition resides in two major concepts:Our diet needs to be balanced to cover our

physiological needs, according to specific dietary requirements  that YOU may have.

For example your age, your activity level, health condition, your personal preference,  and many other

A marathon runner has different nutritional requirements, when compared to a six months old baby.

We need to know what WE need to eat, to stay healthy.

Do you know what you need to eat, to stay healthy?

The second big topic in human nutrition is, how much we eat.

We have evolved for thousands of years in an environment where abundance of food was NOT the "norm".

Our body has evolved preparing ourselves for scarcity times.

So, as a result, when we have food we are conditioned to take advantage of the opportunity.

These days, we are in a different scenario.

This is the first time in history, that large populations eat several times every day and have little or no

If today we eat more than is required for our body to function properly, given our level of activity, the

excess of food is stored for the future,  in the form of glycogen and fat.

This means that, when we end up eating more than we need, we store calories for a scarcity future that will

not come, and end up storing excess of nutrients.

That is why, if we are overweight, a first good change is to reduce the size of the portions.

Let's summarize what we have discussed up to this point.

Nutrition is a complex and developing subject that we will continue covering in more detail in future

For now, we have started with a very practical two major concepts, that you can start applying to your diet.

First, add variety to your diet, so it can be better balanced.

Do not stick with identical meals for weeks.

Change your sources of protein, carbs and fats, add different vegetables and fruits, and so on,  according to

your preferences and dietary restrictions.

Second, if you are overweight, reduce your portion size.

Start by reducing a 20% and see how you feel.

Stay like that for a month and check your progress.

Add this elements to your habit changing calendar.

That way you will be able to keep track of your progress.

Check our video on that topic in our YouTube Channel.

You can have major improvements just with these two small changes.

And remember, you can find many more details in the book we recommended before:Live as long as you dare, by

Nutrition basic start in chapter three and continue through the book.

We will cover that in future deliveries, but we recommend you to dive deeper into these concepts making your

The more you know what you are doing, the better equipped you will be for success!

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