Metabolic Nutrition Advice (MVA).

-It has never been scientifically proven that nutrition can prevent or cure cancer.-.

Life in prehistoric times was tough. As a baby, you were much more likely to die in childbirth or from natural enemies (animals or pests).

Average life expectancy centuries ago was significantly affected by high infant mortality.

However, those who got through their early years in one piece had a reasonable chance of becoming "old.

The lifestyle of our prehistoric ancestors consisted of natural foods and plenty of daily exercise. From diseases of affluence such as obesity and type 2 diabetes - they did not suffer.

Metabolic nutrition counseling takes you back to primeval times. It throws you back to the foods as they were originally consumed and to which you are genetically and epi-genetically accustomed. 

More natural foods and therefore less processed foods!

In other words, metabolic dietary advice allows you to eat anything a caveman could hunt or gather. We are talking about the time of primordial man 10,000 years ago or even longer.

What is the metabolic dietary advice?

Metabolic dietary advice is based on the idea that the human body functions best when it eats natural, unprocessed foods.

In metabolic dietary advice, you are going to eat mainly foods that were available at that time. These include fruits, carrots and vegetables.

For example, salt, dairy and grains are not in the diet. So no genetically engineered foods or food products full of added sugars.

Farmers produce grains, legumes and dairy products, but our genes crave unprocessed, natural foods.

Many food products today are full of added sugar.

Research shows that sugar is added to more than half (56%) of all food products in Dutch supermarkets. Food manufacturers stuff their food products with sugar that is put on the packaging under pseudonyms. Did you know that there are as many as 68(!) sugar pseudonyms?

These are frightening numbers.

It is our stressful existence combined with an unhealthy Western lifestyle that creates an even stronger need to eat healthy and natural foods.

Since the development of agriculture, people have started consuming dairy products, beans, grains, alcohol, salt and processed meat.

Paleo users want to eat the way nature intended: mindful, unprocessed and varied. That means eating meat, fish, eggs, poultry, fruits, nuts, seeds and vegetables that contain protein, healthy fats, natural sugars, antioxidants, vitamins and minerals.

We would get sick from modern foods because they simply don't mesh with our genes.

What can you eat according to the Metabolic Nutrition Advisory?

The main criterion is that it must be unprocessed. Thus, canned meat and hot dogs are not allowed.

What fruits can you eat?

• Apples
• Grapes
• Strawberries
• Oranges
• Peaches
• Bananas
• Mango
• Lime
• Tangerines
• Watermelon
• Lemon
• Blackberries
• Blueberries
• Figs
• Etc.

What vegetables can you eat

• Carrots
• Spinach
• Mushrooms
• Save
• Broccoli
• Beets
• Cauliflower
• Avocado
• Cucumber
• Tomato
• Leek
• Chicory
• Bell pepper
• Asparagus
• Endive
• Etc.

What types of meat and fish can you eat?

• Salmon
• Poultry
• Pork tenderloin
• Turkey
• Bacon
• Beef
• Haas
• Goat
• Mussels
• Shrimp
• Lobster
• Etc.

What oils and fats can you eat?

• Olive Oil
• Avocado oil
• Coconut oil
• Macadamia oil
• Ghee

Which nuts can you eat?

• Hazelnuts
• Sunflower seeds
• Walnuts
• Pumpkin seeds

Which natural sweeteners can you eat/drink in moderation?

• Palm sugar
• Stevia
• Maple syrup
• Raw/raw honey

What can you drink during the Paleo diet?

• Water
• Coffee (think bulletproof coffee, which is black coffee with grass-fed butter and MCT oil)
• Tea (ginger tea, mint tea, green tea, rooibos tea)
• Green smoothies

Avoid the following foods and ingredients

- Refined sugars and fructose-rich corn syrup: soft drinks, fruit juices, table sugar, candy, cakes, ice cream, etc.

- Cereals and grain products - such as barley, corn, millet, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, wheat, wild rice, bread, pasta, etc.

- Legumes - all beans (brown beans, soybeans, etc.), peas, chickpeas, lentils, peanuts.

- Most dairy products - milk, yogurt, cheese, cottage cheese, cream butter, ice cream and coffee cream

- Vegetable oils - such as rapeseed oil, corn oil, palm oil, walnut oil, sunflower oil, soybean oil, peanut oil, flaxseed oil, sesame oil and safflower oil.

- Trans fats: are found in margarines and processed foods and are very harmful to your body and health.

- All artificial sweeteners: aspartame, sucralose, saccharin, cylamate, advantame, etc. (use natural sweeteners instead)

A simple guideline: if you think it's manufactured, don't eat it.

Feeding schedule

The Western modern diet has lost the balance of macronutrients (carbohydrates, proteins, fats). The current Western diet consists of as much as 55% carbohydrates.

If we look at the global hunter-gatherer societies of prehistoric times, they never got more than 40% of their energy requirements from carbohydrates.

Lunch

In the Metabolic Nutrition Advice , you should eat three meals a day. The meal should be based mainly on protein, vegetables and healthy fats. Of course, a salad is also allowed.

It is customary to have two hot meals in a day. So at noon you can eat a full lunch. This will give you enough energy throughout the afternoon to last until dinner. You will also feel less need for a snack as a result.

Unfortunately, most people do not have the time and ability to prepare a hot meal for lunch.

Dinner

Compared to other diets, dinner is generous, but you have to cut out certain regular parts of dinner. Traditionally, for many people, dinner consists of carbohydrates (pasta, rice or potatoes) and some meat and vegetables.

In the Metabolic Nutrition Advice , you must jettison this line of thinking. After all, you are not allowed potatoes or rice.

Monday:

Breakfast: Eggs and vegetables fried in coconut oil. Plus a piece of fruit

Lunch: Chicken salad with some olive oil and a handful of walnuts

Dinner/Dinner: Baked salmon fillet with broccoli and mushroom soup

Tuesday:

Breakfast: avocado smoothie

Lunch: Roast chicken with lettuce and tomatoes

Dinner/Dinner: Grilled pork tenderloin with spinach

Wednesday:

Breakfast: Scrambled eggs with smoked salmon

Lunch: Mussels in lemon juice

Dinner/Dinner: Mexican meatball dish

Thursday:

Breakfast: Fried eggs with mushrooms, onions and bacon

Lunch: Chicken salad with olive oil and walnuts

Dinner/Dinner: Steak with mixed vegetables

Friday:

Breakfast: Omelet with mushrooms, broccoli and cumin

Lunch: tomato soup

Dinner/Dinner: Grilled chicken with vegetables and salsa

Saturday:

Breakfast: green smoothie

Lunch: chicken soup

Dinner/Dinner: Fried shrimp with zucchini, tomatoes and lemon juice

Sunday:

Breakfast: Paleo pancake with dates and walnuts

Lunch: Lettuce wrap with fried chicken, peppers and tomato.

Dinner/Dinner: Baked salmon with vegetables and avocado

Intermittent fasting

Our ancestors practiced periodic fasting, whether forced by circumstances or not.

Intermittent fasting gives you a number of impressive health benefits. By increasing the number of hours you don't eat, your body stays in fat-burning mode longer. The most convenient way to do this is by skipping breakfast occasionally, since you will often have also slept for 7-8 hours by then. So don't eat between 7 p.m. and 1 p.m.