Getting High Nutrient Foods in Your Diet
Posted by Vicki | Under Basic Nutritional RequirementsThis is an excellent video of Dr. Furhman explaining why an excess of macronutirents (fat, protein and carbohydrates) and deficiencies of micronutrients in our diets cause most of the diseases that we are so typically facing today.
He explains in logical and easy to understand terms why it is that many diets do not work, and what to do about changing that. His insights are so educational I just had to share them here.
Although we often do try to focus on eating right, we have my moments of forgetfulness and weakness. I have found incredible benefits from supplements when manufactured with the highest integrity, as with SISEL products.
I am trying to get almost 200g of protein per day. Why does he say he need to get low amounts of protein. Is he only targeting the overweight? I am trying to gain 10 pounds of muscle.
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Another absolute gem Vicki! Dr. Fuhrman talks complete sense… there is no single ideal macro-nutrient ratio. Everyone is different and therefore needs a personalised approach to their nutrition. One thing is for certain though, ANY macronutrients in excess will convert to fat, not just dietary fat. The obsession with low fat diets needs to stop but in the UK people just aren’t getting this yet… *sigh”
i learn a lot from this article . So many thanx
Ryan you’re going about it the wrong way. That much protein is hurtful to your kidneys.Are you aware there are athletes (including weightlifters) who are vegetarian? Find yourself a good nutritionist and a personal trainer. Don’t hurt yourself.
yuph, balancing and controling your nutritions intake is the right way for diet. Good article.
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One of the phytonutrients is folic acid– a vitamin. They found that people on a diet with the most folic acid lost a lot more weight than people on a diet with the least amount of folic acid. Dr Fuhrman is the expert on eating to lose weight according to Dr Oz.
You’re right, but folic acid is what the body produces from consuming folate, a phytonutrient. And what we see in supplements is often folic acid rather than folate, which has been under some discussion as it’s not believed to be as good as consuming folate (found in kale for example). And I love Dr Fuhrman. He understands a lot about the micronutrients and how they work in concert for a more healthy body! (and a more healthy body does lose weight more easily!)
I thought folic acid and folate are the same thing. Some people use them as the same thing. I was talking about what you get from eating greens. The quote does use the word ‘folate.’
“A recent study in the British Journal of Nutrition found that those with the highest folate levels, lose 8.5 times more weight when dieting. When folate levels drop, levels of obesity, heart disease, stroke, cognitive impairment, Alzheimer’s disease and depression goes up.” Wikipedia explains the difference:
Folic acid (also known as vitamin B9,[3] vitamin Bc[4] or folacin) and folate (the form naturally occurring in the body), as well as pteroyl-L-glutamic acid, pteroyl-L-glutamate, and pteroylmonoglutamic acid[5] are forms of the water-soluble vitamin B9. Folic acid is itself not biologically active, but its biological importance is due to tetrahydrofolate and other derivatives after its conversion to dihydrofolic acid in the liver.[6]
Vitamin B9 (folic acid and folate inclusive) is essential to numerous bodily functions.
Right, folate is in the greens we eat, and in its natural form is translated by the body into the B vitamins as you quoted. The body does produce may vitamins on its own which we often confuse with their original phytonutrient form, for example, Vitamin A and how it’s manufactured by the body from cartenoids. We’re much better off consuming folate and cartenoids than the non-bodily manufactured forms of Folic acid and Vitamin A as far as I know, and eating all of the colors of the rainbow or getting good supplements is definitely what we should be striving for!
What Dr Joel Fuhrman says about folic acid is a lot easier to understand. He says: “Folic acid is the synthetic form of folate….” But I showed above that many do not know this.