#092: 10 Principles of Nutrition
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2019
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
We’re breaking down another one of our 5 Factors of Health. We’re talking about avoiding sugar, eating more veggies, understanding good vs bad fats, and how to eat mindfully.
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| 0:00.0 | You could do anything from Weight Watchers, you could do Zone, you could do Macros, you could do |
| 0:06.1 | Calorie Counts, you could do all those things. You don't need to. If you just only ate when you were |
| 0:12.1 | hungry and you did not have seconds at dinner, you didn't snack between meals and you didn't have |
| 0:18.9 | dessert, you and you ate real food, you're going to be right in line with the amount of calories |
| 0:25.5 | that you should have. We are here because we know the outcomes in our lives are within |
| 0:29.7 | our control. That taking absolute ownership of how we eat, sleep, train, think and connect with |
| 0:35.5 | each other is how we'll optimize our health and happiness. That chasing excellence is how we grab |
| 0:41.2 | hold of what is possible. Our mission is to live on the run. Always chasing. Never stop. |
| 0:50.0 | Hello and welcome back to another episode of Chasing Excellence. How are you Ben? I'm good Patrick. |
| 0:55.6 | Today we're going to do something. We, months ago, many months ago now, we introduced the notion |
| 1:01.4 | of the five factors, five factors of health. Our first question would be a quick recap of what that |
| 1:06.4 | is. Then we started to break down each one of those five into your, for a lack of a better term, |
| 1:13.2 | 10 principles of, for example, sleeping or 10 principles of connecting. Then I completely forgot |
| 1:19.6 | about them and we haven't talked about them since. I realized the other day that we have a few more |
| 1:23.4 | of these five factors that we haven't broken down into the 10 principles of. Today we're going to do |
| 1:29.4 | that with nutrition or eating. Before we get into that, for those folks who might be new, who may |
| 1:36.1 | not know what the five factors are, why don't you give us a quick recap of what that means? We'll |
| 1:41.3 | say that. Sure. This is in terms of the factors that affect your fitness. This is the factors that |
| 1:46.4 | you essentially have control over. There's probably a couple others that we could talk about. But |
| 1:51.5 | here's kind of the gist of this thing. If you were to go to the doctor and you had a good doctor, |
| 1:56.4 | they would do more than just prescribe medicine to you. They would talk to you about, |
| 2:00.0 | you know, there's some root causes to what's happening. It's not about, you know, let's say you have |
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