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What Is Defensive Nutrition?
Have you ever heard of “Defensive Nutrition”? Here are five tips to help you understand and achieve it.
How is your diet these days? Do your meals center around the purpose of sustainment or the feeling of satisfaction? Are your meal plans focused on weight loss or consumed with calorie counts? If your answer to any of these questions is yes, you may be missing out on key nutrition or defensive nutrition.
But…What Is Defensive Nutrition
Defensive nutrition is an eating lifestyle that not only focuses on portion control and mindfulness, but has an emphasis on consumption of adequate fluids, fruits, vegetables, legumes, whole grains and foods that are rich in omega-3 fatty acids. Defensive eating focuses on consuming foods that do not increase inflammation, add to the woes of insulin resistance or enhance the risk of cancer.
Defensive nutrition focuses on making better food choices with the goal of protecting your body from harm.
Defensive nutrition is not a diet; rather, it is a way of life. This means you do not pay to lose weight only to regain it again. You do not pay for food, lose weight and then stop buying their food and go right back to where you were (or worse). You choose the foods which contain the greatest nutritional value, and you also focus on portion control.
