There are so many mistakes in the conventional wisdom about nutrition, that you must start by ignoring most expert advice, and by seeking alternate information. The information below is collected from many sources.  These individuals have PhDs in nutrition, or degrees in natural health care, such as ND or DC.  And there are a few medical doctors who have realized that true health care has nothing to do with diagnosing disease and prescribing drugs. Here is what has worked for many people:

1.   Nutrition starts in the intestines.  If you don't have the proper spectrum of beneficial bacteria in your gut, you can't benefit as you should from anything you eat.  So the first step in nutritional health is often a cleaning and rebuilding process.

While a doctor is taught to tell you that your intestine replaces its surface cells every month, this assumes perfect health, and no impacted food residue.  There is substantial evidence that an unhealthy intestinal environment reduces your health significantly.  This condition occurs because of poor diet, lack of exercise, and other reasons. Cleaning the intestines can be accomplished with a variety of methods.  Your local health food store will have several varieties of colonic cleansers, ranging from herbal mixtures, to a volcanic ash. You may experience some cramping or other minor discomfort, but this could be a vital first step.

If you have had a lot of antibiotics, excessive sugar consumption, high stress, or if you drink highly chlorinated water, after cleansing, next you might want to use a probiotic supplement.  You need colonies of different varities of good bacteria.  Visit a good health food store for this. There are capsules that contain six or seven varieties of "good" bacteria to recharge your intestines with these symbiotic life forms that actually digest most of your food for you.  A healthy person will be host to more good bacteria cells in their intestines than there are cells in the entire body!

2.   You must also stop eating all the wrong things as your system is "cleaned and primed"- and you know what those items are.   Stop eating as much processed food as possible, and start eating as much food as possible that came directly from the earth to your table!  Your sugar and alcohol cravings should fade as you truly balance you diet and get all the minerals and trace elements you need. If it comes in a box, you most likely shouldn't be eating it.  If you can get a coupon to buy it, you probably shouldn't.  If it will spoil within a week, that is real food, and that is what your body needs to stay healthy.

3. You must balance your diet the right way, before you can expect the best results from super-nutrition.  It is the low fat diet promoted by the AMA and the government that is making us fatter and sicker!  Since "low fat" became "the" way to eat, America has gained an average of 10 pounds per person. It is actually too much carbohydrate in the diet that puts on the body fat due to its effect on the insulin cycle.

It is not calories that are of supreme importance, it is the balance of the source of those calories.   The combination of protein, fat, and carbohydrates that you eat have profound effects on the hormone cycles in your body, and so on everything about you - your obesity or trimness, your laziness or ambition, your dull or sharp mind, and so on.

Balancing your diet is the latest thing from the Hollywood trainers to the pro football locker rooms. The informed don't diet anymore, they get in The Zone . . . the 40-30-30 zone of balanced nutrition. And the results are simply amazing! The results of a balanced diet include: 

It is simple to begin a diet with the proper balance of 40% carbohydrate, 30% protein, and 30% fat.  Meal planners are available, as well as delicious snack food that contain the 40-30-30 balance you need.

4. Supplements for super-nutrition are the next step after you have a balanced diet.