Nutrition Genius
Last summer I was fortunate to work alongside Brian St. Pierre. He is a brilliant nutritionist that continues to get phenomenal results with his clients. Brian really knows his stuff when it comes to altering individual diets to help people shed fat, build muscle, recover faster from workouts, and improve their overall health.
In today’s post, Brian shares with us a nutrition tip that will have a large impact on your health and performance.
Brian’s Nutrition Tip:
“Eat Real Food!”
“It may seem trivial or vague, but if you sat back and really took stock of the food in your home, you would probably be shocked to realize just how much of it qualifies as a food product, not actual food. Increasing the amount of real food, defined below, and decreasing the amount of food products you consume is the easiest thing you can do to improve your nutrition and health. It doesn’t require counting calories, worrying about nutrient timing, calculating macronutrient percentages, or any of that, and it will have a far greater impact on your health.”
Real Food Conditions:
-If you couldn’t hunt, fish, pluck, grow, or ferment/culture the food, you probably shouldn’t eat it.
-If it wasn’t food 100 years ago, it probably isn’t food today.
-If it comes in a box or a plastic wrapper, it probably isn’t food, it is a food product.
-If it contains lots of industrial vegetable oil (canola, cottonseed, soybean, safflower, sunflower, etc) and/or added sugar/high fructose corn syrup, it probably isn’t food, it is a food product.
If your response to this is “I knew that already”, you should probably ask yourself “Am I doing this?” Most people know what they should be doing; few are actually doing it. If you know anyone else that you feel would benefit from this information, please pass it on to them. Keep checking back. I will regularly be posting nutrition tips from Brian St. Pierre and will keep posting great training information to help you get better results.
-Kevin Neeld
P.S. You can learn more about nutrition and supplementation for health and performance by visiting Brian’s website.
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