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Nutrition encourages nourishing your body with adequate amount of macro and micronutrients.
Nutrition is not trying to see how little you can eat.
Nutrition is about building resilience, and eating to support your health and wellbeing.
Nutrition is not about fighting your body.
Nutrition can take into account food preferences, schedule, resources, allergies, and whatever other circumstances play into food.
Nutrition is not about control, self-punishment, shame or judgement.
Nutrition uses accurate, descriptive labels like nutrient dense or energy dense in the context of overall nutrition patterns.
Nutrition does not sue vague and subjective labels like good or bad, healthy or unhealthy.
Nutrition considers health concerns and recognizes that nutrition interventions are unique to the individual.
Nutrition is not one size fits all protocols and optimizations.
Nutrition is personal.
Nutrition is not comparison or competition.
Nutrition science is best applies with the mindset of variety, balance, and moderation. All nutrients are essential and they work synergistically.
Nutrition is not prioritizing one nutrient above any other.
Nutrition is the very day real life act of fueling your life.
Nutrition is not always as aesthetic as social media makes it seem.
Nutrition is science.
Nutrition is not opinion.
