Health Foundation # 2 is Eating Nutrient Dense Food Consistently eating the wrong kinds of food is like sitting on a railroad track waiting for a bad result.   Conversely, eating the right kinds of food is living in harmony with natural law.

We Are What We Eat

“I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be for your food.” (Genesis 1:29)

At least two things need to be considered as you choose what food you will eat.

1. Eating foods that contain free radicals or that rev up the endocrine systems for naught (calories with few nutrients) will cause your body to wear out much quicker.
    
2. Not eating enough nutrients will likewise cause your body to be unable to repair itself and therefore, wear out much quicker.

Principles to Live By:

1. Nutrients furnish the tools and materials by which our cells maintain their integrity. Without sufficient nutrients we lose our cellular integrity.
    
2. Since digesting, assimilating and converting food into useable nutrients and energy is destructive to the body, it follows that eating the least amount of food necessary will preserve the life of our body the longest.

The three most important categories of food are:

• antioxidant rich foods (typically fruits, vegetables and grains)
• EFA rich foods (typically oily foods such as fish, flax seed, borage oil, coconut oil)
• mineral rich foods (typically ocean grown foods)

These foods have been proven many times over to help prevent the onset of degenerative disease conditions.

Nutrient Density is a Key to Longevity

Researchers have discovered that it isn’t enough to just get your antioxidants, essential fatty acids, minerals, vitamins, and so forth. To push against the envelope of maximum life span, one needs to also restrict calories (while getting sufficient nutrients).

Simply put, the practice of under-eating calories (eating fewer calories than one is naturally inclined to eat) enables one to push beyond normal longevity limits. Therefore, nutrient dense food falls in the category of very wise eating.

Some useful, general principles:

1. Processed food (junk food) is nearly devoid of useable nutrients. Therefore, such foods should be generally avoided.
    
2. Fruit is high in both minerals, antioxidants and calories. Because of the higher amounts of calories, fruits are best limited to only one serving per day.
    
3. Variety is the spice of life and part of wise eating. One should mix up the foods one eats. Each particular kind of food contains some nutrients that another food doesn’t contain.
    
4. Not all foods should be consumed together because doing so doesn’t allow the body to extract the nutrition properly. See our tips on food combining.

Other things to think about:

• There is an exceptional food product that you might consider incorporating into your daily regimen. It is called Seven Essentials or Essential Seven or E7. It provides the equivalent antioxidants of 42 servings of vegetables (an ORAC rating of 21,010) in a single serving of food powder (tastes delicious) and has only 60 calories per serving. It contains seven types of concentrated, antioxidant rich foods.
   
• To learn more about Seven Essentials, click here.
   

To continue to learn more about eating antioxidant, EFA and other nutritionally rich foods, click here.

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