Finding The Perfect Diet

I wish I could tell you to eat a certain list of foods and it would guarantee your health, but I have not found health to be that cut and dry. There is no single diet plan that works on everyone. There are certain diets that have proven to cure various people of their illnesses, but what works for one often fails to work for another. There are also many diets designed to help people loose weight, but again what works on one person often fails to work on another.

Please keep in mind that a "food program" is not necessarily health; a "diet," does not mean it is healthy. Choosing a particular diet plan should be individual, which means I am not able to point you to a perfect diet. Whatever diet you choose, it should follow most of the principles outlined in the Diet/Lifestyle Guidelines. No matter what decision you make, you will never find a "perfect" diet for a variety of reasons.

1. Real life is too busy, fast or emotional to stick to a stringent diet. We promote that health is dictated by a variety of factors and what you do most of the time will determine your results.
   
2. Even if we had the perfect diet plan, food is only as good as the nutrition it absorbed from the ground it was grown in and no matter where you go, you will not find land containing all of the essential nutrients. No fertilizer contains it all either. If the nutrition is not in the land to begin with, how can it be in the plant you harvest the food from? And I'm not even going to mention that many foods are picked green (certain nutrients do not mature without photo-synthesis, which requires the food to be in the sun, on the plant), radiation, chemical fertilizers, wax, genetic manipulation, enzyme blockers, etc.
   
3. Did you know that food is the most emotional area of life? If food is not emotional for you, that in itself represents issues. To put anyone on a food program that brings them no joy is asking for emotional baggage and stress that will negatively over-ride many of the benefits of the diet.

Thus I recommend that you look over the diet choices and find the one that is easiest for you to follow. Ultimately, what you do most of the time is what will dictate the amount of health you have tomorrow. Of course, since food does not contain all the nutrients essential to attain or maintain health, and you and I both know you are going to eat some emotionally happy foods (that means unhealthy) make sure you are following the GWSW Program to maintain the best balance possible. No matter what diet you follow, consider an organic version of that food and incorporate the Diet/Lifestyle Guidelines.