Eating for wellness

As a nutritionist many people ask what my focus is on. Meaning do I lean towards low carbohydrate, low fat, high protein, ETC.I would have to say that my major focus has been to understand the adaptation, evolution and development of the human body in all of its rich variations in all of the environments around the world. My interest is to explore the nature of optimal/maximal health and to integrate that into an understanding of nature of human dietary requirements.I do not support any particular brand of diet. In fact I would suggest that the vast majority of recommended diets are simply modified versions of “how to take money from gullible people.” Even with the best of intentions very few people actually advise you how to live within your bodies optimal design parameters. For example while grains have become a large part of our diets they played almost no part in the development of our metabolisms. And since our genes/metabolisms show only a 0.02% variation over the last 500,000 years, and grains have only been a part of our diets for around 4,000 years, I definitely recommend minimal or no grain in our diets. Now I know that that will be unpopular, large corporations have been brainwashing us for generations. With the development of agriculture we have developed extensive knowledge of producing grain easily and cheaply. We can easily store and move grain. There are many personal, social and economic reasons to use grains. Personally I love cheese on toast. However none of this means that it is a good idea for use to rely on it as a regular part of our diet.The same holds true for dairy products and a number of other things that are becoming larger, proportionally, parts of our diet. Another example is salt. It played very little part in our diet except as a very necessary micronutrient. Refined sugars are the same.So in answer to people’s questions, while I do sometimes address specific dietary issues, for the most part my focus is on teaching people how their body/mind works and how to run and fuel it optimally.