Nutrition is the corner stone to health and the reason why the concepts of prevention and wellness are now being widely recognised as the future of health care. Prevention starts with education. So, for anyone wanting to promote a healthy diet, it is important to learn and understand the many complex factors that play into health and disease and adopt practices that address health as a whole.

It is evident that the foods we choose to eat not only effects our weight, moods and energy levels, but also how we age and the rate of aging. Disease's such as obesity, stroke, heart disease, chronic fatigue, diabetes, most cancers and many more, are conditions associated with dietary excess, deficiencies and poor lifestyle habits.

However, the path towards prevention and wellness, for the proactive, has its own challenges. A large number of health conscious people still fall prey to the dangerous advice distributed by health professionals who are selling short term results, without considering the long term ramifications.

Many popular diet authors lure the curious by capturing people's imaginations with interesting topic's like "eat like a hunter gather" or "eat right for your blood type," yet provide no science to support the health benefits of following such a program. 

These concepts in nutrition are marketed towards peoples indiscretions with a clear and intising message, "How can you eat all the fat and grease you like and still lose weight?" Diets like these are appealing because people love to hear good news about their bad habits. 

There is an extremely large incentive for coming up with a different theory, that is, the more captivating and 'out there' the theories are, the more books and DVD's on that theory are sold. Developing a marketing edge is designed to do one thing, sell not inform! Gimmicks such as these are unsustainable and leave most consumers confused, overweight, sick and on a steady path towards chronic illness. A healthy diet should positively impact all aspects of physiology, not just the waist line.

Economics influences health advice and for this reason many proclaimed industry leaders, some with impressive credentials, dispense information in direct contradiction with each other. This is confusing for most people who are not trained to discern between stories and scientific facts. 

To make informed decisions about diet and health it is vital that people become better consumers of information. Critical thinking should be encouraged. Are the health concepts being promoted supported by carefully constructed scientific studies, performed on human populations with measurable outcomes. There is probably a good reason why most diet theories are not supported by good research. If the ideas are valid they should stand up to the riggers of academic scrutiny and finally be published in prestigious medical journals.

Scientific validation isn’t a perfect solution for establishing truths (nothing is), but evidence builds on prior studies and new research attempts to test and check vadilatly of each hypothisis in an unbiased manner. 

Intelligent Health's philosophies are not based upon personal preferences or ideas, rather the best science on health and nutrition that shows adopting a low fat plant centred diet that consists of lots of fresh ripe, in best case organic, fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, seeds and whole grains, the occasional inclusion of organic lean meats (optional), drinking clean water, coupled with an active lifestyle, adequate sleep and a plan to manage stress is preventive, health promoting and consistent with health longevity.

Adhering to these principles will promote balance of our bodies hormones and chemistry, supporting and maintaining the body as a whole. Not only will you lose weight and maintain ideal body composition, but you will look better, feel better, think clearer and live longer.