People make such a big deal about "diet" but pay much less attention to "nutrition," and they do so at their own peril. The truth is, I don't really care what your diet is. I'm really more concerned about how well you're being nourished by your diet.

Everybody adheres to one diet or another, and some like to claim that theirs is the "one true diet for all mankind," but I can think of few things that are more destructive to a person's health than when someone wraps up their entire identity in the dogmatic beliefs of a particular diet so much that they fail to recognize when that diet is no longer serving them well. 

Usually the reason a "diet" stops working is that it fails to provide the correct nutrition that their body needs, and the person fails to thrive...or in some cases, it completely wrecks their health.

Another problem I see today is that people have no idea what they're even supposed to eat (thanks mostly to junk corporate science) and they either become apathetic about what they put in their mouth, or they latch on to every new diet that comes along… and start developing disordered eating habits and unhealthy attachments to food.

"Diets" are often the creation of food gurus with agendas for sale and egos to coddle. Not only that, one also has to take into account things like a person's heritage, where they currently live, their current state of health, their desired state of health, their genetics, medical conditions, and other lifestyle factors when determining what the best "diet" would be for them. 

See why I dislike "diets?" It's obnoxious. We're the only animal that has to be told how to eat, because despite our superiority at the top of the food chain, we've somehow forgotten just what food is supposed to be - let alone look like or taste like.

So to that end, let's go to today's video to find out more about my nutritional template so that you can start working some of these ideas into your daily habits.