Nutrition Varies Between Individuals

Last updated October 11, 2024

When studying diet and nutrition, or when deciding on what type of diet is right for you, it is important to keep in mind that every person is different. A diet that works perfectly well for one individual, may cause inflammation and disease or disability or the next individual. This is especially true for populations within the North America.

Diverse people means that the optimal diet should be diverse. Historically, ancestors of some groups were able to survive primarily on blubber of animals, and some were able to thrive on diets rich with vegetables or corn. Time selected for traits in the people to be able to process different kinds of foods, depending on the region and climate that was inhabited.

While exactly how every component of diet is affection by the persons history is not fully understood, it is rather clear that there are differences between people. The only sure way to learn what type of diet id best for each individual is through trial and error. An elimination diet is one example of how this investigation could work, and its best to eliminate all foods that have been introduced by modern industrial society.

Processed foods can wreak havoc the health of most people. Processed food can be identified as anything that come in a package or can, or anything that has ingredients that are not recognized as a meat or vegetable. Over the past century, food scientists have created products that seem to be healthy, but that actually are problematic for the people who consume them.

Some of the most common foods produced in the modern ecosystem are hydrogenated fats, artificial and natural flavors, and preservatives. Additionally the industrialized agriculture system used to produce food has its own set of various problems. Large farms that grow a single species of crop, have a difficult time of eradicating pests and mold. These pests thrive among thousands of acres of crop.

Pesticides and fungicides are widely used to kill insects and mold that damage crops and diminish profits. Pesticides and fungicides are known to cause a host of problems in the humans as as well as in the livestock animals that consume the residual chemicals. The organic designation of food precludes the use of these chemicals, so it is recommended to eat only organic food to avoid as many heath problems as possible.

Elimination Diet

An elimination diet can help to determine which foods cause problems for you. Common food related allergies are, inflammation, which can manifest as fatigue with an unknown cause, runny nose, or clogged nasal passages, eczema, digestive gas or pain.

Start with one simple nutritious food that you don't know to cause problems, an example may be chicken eggs, a single meat like beef or chicken, or possibly a vegetable like potato or rice. Then, after 3 days, begin by introducing one more whole food at a time. Keep a journal to describe what you ate and how you feel. Do this in the morning and evening to determine what food work and what foods cause problems.

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