As a mom of four kids I practice what I call, ‘Intuition Nutrition’ as it applies to our daily diets.

That means we take in what we need to maintain our body’s healthy state while not being overly persuaded by media campaigns and by ‘listening to our body’ and being intuitive about things we reach for at buffets or on serving platters.

Let us be realistic, some of that stuff, if given just a moment of your attention, would not be eaten. Nutrition has become an important word thanks to the involvement of the USDA in our daily food requirements, and the FDA’s involvement in determining what is and is not dangerous for us to consume.

That’s all just fine and dandy, but who really is the final word when a person reaches for that ‘you know what’ and puts it in thier mouth?

Some of it should repulse us.  Instead, it beckons and most of us reach for it like Frankenstein would. Do we understand what our nutritional requirements are, how to fulfill those requirements, and how to look for real nutritional value in our foods?

If you go to a book store, a library, or fitness center, there is massive amounts of information available to help educate and to help you make good health choices, no matter what the age group.

Nutrition refers to the nurturing of our body, in our ability to keep it healthy and functioning as it is supposed to do. Our ability to provide the body with all it’s necessary food, vitamins, and minerals so that we continue to thrive in our daily life processes.

If you were to take a cross-section of the population, and check for adequate levels of the most used and fortified vitamins and minerals, you would probably find that as high as 80% or the population is lacking in at least one of the vitamins and minerals. And then the costs that come from that are sky-high.

So, you get where I’m going with this?

Can you see how a little more cooperation and open-minded participation on the part of our medical field could result in far fewer health problems?

It should encourage the general population with a viable way to discern their nutrition, vitamin and mineral needs in a way to increase thier consiousness and presense of mind. An ‘eye to food’ state of mind in a way to give them a minute to pause and make the right choice.

So how do we determine that we are providing the essential nutritional needs?

That knowledge comes by educating ourselves about what our individual needs are, the needs of our family, and then taking that knowledge and applying it to the foods we buy, that we prepare, and that our families enjoy, and not just ‘consume’.

They gotta’ have the ‘force’ working for them!

I’m not sure that nutrition has been successfully addressed in its own right. We hear nutrition in relation to our vitamin intake, our fortified cereals and milk, and in the context that we need “nutritional value” from our food choices.  But what really is nutrition when applied to our daily bodily functions?

Today, we must determine how much nourishment we need, how much physical exercise we need, and how best to accomplish those ends. Calorie needs, nutritional needs, physical needs, and education about those needs now is information we should all understand, at least as it applies to our individual self.

As you can see, this is all information overload and we need a way to cut through the high grass of words and sales pitches.

Nutrition is one of the most complex areas to gain useful knowledge about, because there are so many components, and because each person has their own individual needs.

Women needs differ from those of men, and older women’s needs differ from those of a young girl. As we age, our needs constantly change; therefore a continuingg preponderance of nutrition and the food we eat to get it should become more intuitional because our bodies are different and they require different food. nutrition is a fact of life.

Individuality is the key to understanding each person’s nutritional needs, and then working to educate ourselves as one would in prayer is the key to fulfilling those nutritional, intuitive choice makers.

Good nutrition should a goal of every person alive so as to guide them in thier ultimate goal: intuitve, health, happy and blessed.

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