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What do you need for survival?\u00a0 I\u2019m not talking about your phone, technology or a certain person; I mean what does your body need to survive?\u00a0 If you said food you would be correct\u2026<\/span> the single most important thing you need to focus on at that point is what to eat.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Food is one of the most important things in our lives but in most cases it is low on our priority list.\u00a0 We usually eat whatever is quick and easy not what is best for us.\u00a0 Look at what we teach our kids in school, we give them a thorough education on topics such as Math,\u00a0History, Science, Languages, etc, but never give more than a couple hours in\u00a0their entire 12 years in school about the most important thing in our lives…what to eat<\/b>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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If you think about it, that’s absolutely crazy…\u00a0 One of the single most important aspects of our lives is never really taught to our children in school.\u00a0 And parents don’t generally pick up the slack and teach kids nutrition because they were never taught about it either.\u00a0 This is a modern day problem, the abundance of food all around us in modern day life means that we don’t have to think about what’s appropriate to eat.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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So that brings us back to the question at hand\u2026.\u201dWhat should we eat?\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
Lately I have been doing a ton of research on this topic.\u00a0 I\u2019ve found that there needs to be some simple rules to follow if you want to successfully navigate the current food landscape.\u00a0 <\/span><\/div>\n
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Healthy Eating Rules\u2026Simplified<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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There is a ton of information on nutrition; everyone out there seems confused about what is the best “diet” to be on.\u00a0 People seem to love to always jump from fad diet to fad diet such as low-fat diets, Atkins,\u00a0 south beach, grapefruit diets, detox diets, vegetarian diets, and other sometimes ridiculous diets that most times are based on one person’s opinion or marketing scheme (or personal agenda) rather than based on actual science.<\/span><\/div>\n
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I’ve<\/span><\/span>\u00a0found that in order to find out what\u2019s best to eat we need to take a look at science and history.\u00a0\u00a0 Before the agricultural revolution came around we (as humans) only ate wild plants and animals, we were hunters and gatherers.\u00a0 Now, we eat processed grains, farmed animals and plants and tons of chemicals.\u00a0 The biggest change this represents\u00a0is the massive inclusion of grains in our current diet (and what our animals are fed) now compared to our ancestors.\u00a0 <\/span><\/div>\n
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So what exactly did our ancestors eat?\u00a0 Simple:<\/span><\/div>\n