A Healthy Diet is Only 25% Nutrition

Hey gang, I'm just going through my latest on my book a fitness independence. The book is
available on amazon.com, right now I'm finishing up the paperback version at this moment and
just going through the chapter on healthy eating.

Breaking Down Fitness Dogmas

As I described in the book, the whole book is about just breaking down Fitness dogmas, so you
don't have to live by someone else's rules to get shape the way you want to get in shape and
live your life the way you want and get in better shape because of it, rather than in spite of it and
In the chapter on healthy eating, I explained how a lot of the dietary dogmas out there are
actually holding you back.

Four Primal Appetites

A healthy diet is actually supposed to be easy in your life, it's supposed to remove stress.
Now the way that I propose we do this is, there are four primal appetites that a healthy diet
should satisfy:

1. Physical hunger
2. Eating for your energy level
3. Enjoyment of food that makes you feel good when you're eating it
4. Nutritional quality

Now here's the interesting thing nutrition out of all four appetites. Nutrition is just 25% of the
things you need to consider, and some dietary dogma is out there telling you that you should
even fight some of these appetites. Like if you're hungry don't eat, you know if something tastes
really good don't eat it sort of thing because these would undermine your ability to fulfill all four
appetites.
Obeying Hunger

I also kind of mentioned in the book there are like two extremes when it comes to eating,
yeah you've got some people out there and they don't care at all about the nutritional quality of
their food, they'll eat a bag of doughnuts for breakfast and soda pop itself because they're
primarily obeying hunger, they're hungry and their blood sugar is crashing, they're starving and
they just stop off and get a junk food at any chance they can get.

They're only obeying their hunger, so if they're not obeying, they're paying attention at energy
level or the nutritional quality or even the taste to a certain degree. Their diets are not healthy,
but we could make the same argument for those who are on the other side of the spectrum

Dietary Choices

All they base their nutrition or their dietary choices off is the nutritional quality of food and
sometimes I asked people like, “what's your diet like?” and they'll tell me what they don't eat, I
don't eat sugar, I don't eat processed food, I don't eat this I only eat organic. It is good and all
fine but if that's all you're BAE seeing your choices off, that's only 25% of what's gonna make
your diet healthy.

That's like going into the gym and only working your arms and not caring at all about the other
muscles in your body you're leaving 75% of your potential on the table by doing that because at
the end of the day all four appetites are of equal importance your hunger.

Satisfying Hunger

Just as important as eating nutritionally, is just as important as satisfying your hunger and
enjoying your food, and really getting a lot of pleasure out of it is just as important as the
nutritional quality.

Therefore, a healthy diet doesn't matter how nutritious you're trying to eat if you're always
hungry or a slow and sluggish you're not feeling very good or you don't enjoy the foods that are
eating. All of that eventually is going to undermine the nutritional quality of your diet, so it's just
some food for thought quite literally I guess in this case but nutrition is important but it's only
one-quarter of what's really important with a healthy diet.