So, Some people wonder what you should eat on a CRON diet.
I think that Michael Pollan condensed it very well with his statement "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants". An oversimplification to be sure, but a nice summary of the current nutritional knowledge. I am going to talk about these ideas from more of a CRON perspective.
Eat a wide variety of foods. Try not to rely on a short list of foods that you repetitively eat. Even though swiss chard is amazingly high in potassium (per calorie), you should not eat only swiss chard to get your potassium. Find a number of good sources and rotate through them. The more the better. The rational for this is that all the essential micronutrients are not yet known for humans. It is better to use the RDA list of known micronutrients as an indicator list. If you are consistently getting your RDA through a variety of foods, you stand to have a good chance of having received the benefits of hottest new supplements in the same way that when the benefits of phytochemicals, anti-carcinogens and omega-3 fatty acid came to my awareness, I found that my diet was already rich in these substances.
I think that Michael Pollan condensed it very well with his statement "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants". An oversimplification to be sure, but a nice summary of the current nutritional knowledge. I am going to talk about these ideas from more of a CRON perspective.
Eat Food
Try to get your nutrition through food, not through supplements. There is growing evidence that supplements do not provide the same benefits as the whole foods that contain the same vitamins. This should not really be all that surprising. We evolved eating whole foods, and so our body evolved to maximize beneficial interactions from eating those foods, while minimizing negative effects. Furthermore, new beneficial micronutrients are being discovered all the time, but have always existed in the actual foods. Along the same lines, the more heavily processed (via industrial processes) the food is, typically, the fewer nutrients it has left. Companies that sell these foods on the grocery store shelves often try to hide this fact by being fortified, but that is simply a supplement that has been added to the food, and is no better than taking a supplement yourself.
Try to get your nutrition through food, not through supplements. There is growing evidence that supplements do not provide the same benefits as the whole foods that contain the same vitamins. This should not really be all that surprising. We evolved eating whole foods, and so our body evolved to maximize beneficial interactions from eating those foods, while minimizing negative effects. Furthermore, new beneficial micronutrients are being discovered all the time, but have always existed in the actual foods. Along the same lines, the more heavily processed (via industrial processes) the food is, typically, the fewer nutrients it has left. Companies that sell these foods on the grocery store shelves often try to hide this fact by being fortified, but that is simply a supplement that has been added to the food, and is no better than taking a supplement yourself.
Eat a wide variety of foods. Try not to rely on a short list of foods that you repetitively eat. Even though swiss chard is amazingly high in potassium (per calorie), you should not eat only swiss chard to get your potassium. Find a number of good sources and rotate through them. The more the better. The rational for this is that all the essential micronutrients are not yet known for humans. It is better to use the RDA list of known micronutrients as an indicator list. If you are consistently getting your RDA through a variety of foods, you stand to have a good chance of having received the benefits of hottest new supplements in the same way that when the benefits of phytochemicals, anti-carcinogens and omega-3 fatty acid came to my awareness, I found that my diet was already rich in these substances.
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Menu Jan 5th
Breakfast
Coffee w/ half and half
Banana
Lunch
Bagel and Lox w/ green olive cream cheese
Spinach salad w/ fresh mozzarella, tomatoes and avocado
Snack
Black grapes
Dinner
3 Crispbreads w/ cheese and tomatoes
Clementine
Nutrition Summary:
Calories 1185, Protein 63g, Carbs 111g, Lipids 61g
Vitamins 92%, Minerals 96%
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