Starting your Intelligent Eating

General Practitioners - General advice

General dietary advice given to patients by doctors is often just that. Extremely diluted, non-specific general advice, often tagged on the end of a visit like an afterthought, as the patient heads to the pharmacy for a prescription of drugs offering one solution plus a host of potential side effects that can cause the body more stress dealing with those unnecessary symptoms.

Eating well

Despite repeatedly emphasising the importance of eating well to my clients, the uptake of recommended principles is very much easier said than done. When I pass on the numerous logical, intelligent, and common sense gems of information to any who asks, the principles often meet with nods of agreement and commitments to start immediately.

24 hours pass by. A day at work, a family meal, a weekend away or an evening out. "Well, perhaps I'll start this diet thing next week!"

Excuse culture

Creativity is a gift that most of us put to good use on a daily basis. This is no more true than when people are describing why they have failed follow the principles of a decent diet. When it comes to excess calorie intake, there is always someone or some event to blame. The only other time you find yourself making up similar excuses is when you have failed to accomplish something. Turning up late for work, failing a job interview, and many other accountable errors. The litigation culture that saturates the western world leaves in its wake a general culture that we are never responsible for our failures and that someone else is always to blame. 

In dietary terms, we blame celebrities, television, "the media" and a wealth of social pressures for our inability to control what we eat. These pressures are so great that it seems, for some people, as if they are force fed fatty and sugary foods by the people around them. This may be true for children who eat what their parents offer, but can intelligent adults really be suggesting that they are unable to choose what food they eat for their own health?

Caffeine - Alcohol - Yeast - Sugar