The ideal – (from CrossFit.com)
The CrossFit dietary prescription is as follows:
Protein should be lean and varied and account for about 30% of your total caloric load.
Carbohydrates should be predominantly low-glycemic and account for about 40% of your total caloric load.
Fat should be predominantly monounsaturated and account for about 30% of your total caloric load.
Calories should be set at between .7 and 1.0 grams of protein per pound of lean body mass depending on your activity level. The .7 figure is for moderate daily workout loads and the 1.0 figure is for the hardcore athlete.
What Should I Eat?
In plain language, base your diet on garden vegetables, especially greens, lean meats, nuts and seeds, little starch, and no sugar. That’s about as simple as we can get. Many have observed that keeping your grocery cart to the perimeter of the grocery store while avoiding the aisles is a great way to protect your health. Food is perishable. The stuff with long shelf life is all suspect. If you follow these simple guidelines you will benefit from nearly all that can be achieved through nutrition.
Life at it’s simplest is also at it’s finest. I believe that food at its most basic is what we are designed to eat. While science can and has improved many, many areas of life (lightbulbs, airbags, air conditioning…) the more food is “fixed” or “improved” the more it is polluted as far as our bodies are concerned. The “improvements” are most often for the sake of shelf life, not health. If that box of noodles can sit on the shelf for 4 weeks it has a great chance of being purchased. The moment fruit has a dark-ish color it is getting passed by. We get more out of the fruit.
This will be an ongoing topic…what to eat. I get the difficulties. Life is busy. Kids won’t eat the non-fun stuff. I’m on the go all day. I’m living it, too. What I hope is happening every where is that folks are choosing quality over quantity. Quantity is making us fat. It’s time to be food snobs!
