We recently had the honor and pleasure of facilitating a talk for Natural Grocers on Food Quality. We talked a little about how upgrading your quality can impact your results. We also went into a spectrum of quality for most common foods we purchase.
Remember what you want from your health efforts:
- Improved body composition.
- Improved health.
Remember why you’re eating food in the first place:
- For nutrients to contribute to structure, form, and function. These nutrients build the body and contribute to all the functions of the body.
- For metabolic flexibility and fat burning. You want to eat food in a way that nurtures your body’s ability to use fat for fuel.
Eating this way contributes to and optimal body composition and metabolic health – the absence of metabolic syndrome = an ideal body composition, normal blood pressure, blood sugar handling capacity, low triglycerides, and high HDL.
Here are some of our quick facts from this talk about what is acceptable/fine to what is the best possible quality you can buy:
Meat & Poultry Acceptable to Best:
- Acceptable = conventional which is totally fine, because it is still real food.
- Better = organic because it is the next step in a better direction. The animals are eating organic feed and not exposed to as many toxins.
- Optimal = pastured, pasture-raised, and/or grass-fed because this is where they are able to eat their species appropriate diet.
Fish & Seafood Acceptable to Best:
- Acceptable = domestic farmed specific animals. These are shellfish, trout, catfish, and coho salmon.
- Better = wild caught because this is where they are able to eat their species appropriate diet.
- Optimal = wild caught SMASH = sardines, mackerel, anchovies, salmon, and herring because these are the most nutritious and least toxic of all the wild caught fish.
Produce Acceptable to Best:
- Acceptable = conventional produce. Totally fine! It’s better to eat convventional produce than not eat produce at all!
- Better = organic produce because it will have less and different types of pesticdes, herbicides, and other toxic inputs.
- Optimal = locally grown! Whether they are certified organic or not.
- Beyond optimal = wild :)
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