[ 🍽️ ] The Simplest Nutrition Strategy: Eat Clean & Eat Light
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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We're discussing the simplest nutrition strategy we can come up with. You'll gain insights into how to make healthier food choices and understand the importance of nutrient density in your diet. By implementing these principles, you'll cultivate a balanced approach to nutrition that enhances your overall well-being.
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📍 Ben Bergeron is a best-selling author, coach to 7 CrossFit Games champions, and founder of CompTrain. Find him on Instagram.
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| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome back to another episode of chasing excellence. How the heck are you then? |
| 0:36.0 | I'm doing great, Patrick. Thank you. We are going to talk about nutrition today. |
| 0:41.3 | We haven't actually done an episode on nutrition for a bit. |
| 0:43.3 | And I remember you put up a CrossFit, New England put up a video of you just kind of doing a talk to a class about eating clean and eating light and keeping it as simple as that. |
| 0:53.3 | So that's my first question to you is can you just kind of explain what you mean by |
| 0:57.9 | eat clean and eat light? |
| 0:59.3 | So to keep it super simple, which is what it should be. |
| 1:03.1 | I think that nutrition gets so over complicated. |
| 1:06.2 | And understandably, it's a complex thing of putting edible substances in through your mouth and turning it into life. |
| 1:17.0 | That's an amazing thing that's hard to conceptually understand. |
| 1:20.4 | Having said that, what we need is a working understanding to help us to make decisions when we get to the breakfast table, when we get |
| 1:29.1 | to the office and we get to a restaurant. We have to understand not necessarily the molecular |
| 1:35.3 | structure of gluten, but what should I order off the menu? Let's try to make this as simple as |
| 1:41.4 | possible. This is us, the frameworks guys. We love to break this down in |
| 1:45.8 | framework. The simplest framework I can work with is eat clean, eat light. It doesn't get more |
| 1:52.7 | simple than that. Honestly, every diet, when you hear diet think nutritional strategy, way of eating, essentially leans into one of |
| 2:08.0 | those two principles. That's it. There's really only two. And you go like, well, isn't that a rip off of |
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