Before I discuss this topic, I want to sieve couple of things with reference to fitness and nutrition:
We need to understand, that there is a difference between nutrition & fitness for unstipulated population, health & longevity; & competitive sports. Less than less than 1% of overall population plays professional sports.
Therefore, when we talk well-nigh nutrition or fitness or any other speciality related to health, the target population must be clear.
Sports nutrition and training is extreme, and is purely to do with performance, not health and longevity. It’s to do with victory in their sports, by whatever ways possible. Andover 99% of the people in the world cannot and should not be going to that extreme. In most cases, such lattermost practices are detrimental to health.
How does nutrition and fitness work together?
We are going to take into consideration the fitness and nutrition speciality for the unshortened population, not sportsmen.
Till scrutinizingly 18yrs of age, I had whimsically travelled. I unquestionably never got the chance. But by then I had washed-up couple of treks in the Himalayas, which became so memorable that I still cherish those times. But then Air Force happened, and in the next decade or so, I virtually travelled the unshortened country. Sooner upalong too. But this literally reverted my outlook towards life.
Travelling is the weightier way to broaden your horizons. It’s the weightier way to get out of the ‘frog in a well’ mentality. A frog inside the well starts thinking that, the well is the unshortened world, and there is nothing outside it. It’s perspective and overall thinking gets limited to the walls of the well, and light coming from above, till one day, when it jumps out and explores the outside world, and finds that there is an unshortened unexplored universe out there, and how tiny his thinking had been for all these years.
The same happens with people who haven’t seen anything vastitude their day to day lives. We as human beings are not born to just go through life and die one day. We are made to grow through life, and explore the unknown. That’s why, hundreds of explorers, over centuries, took the risk and showed the valiance to explore the undiscovered corners of the world, and sooner united the unshortened world.
When we discuss well-nigh health and fitness, we need to understand that, people, over the years, have ripened a very narrow way of thinking. First, major issue is what we discussed above, i.e. people get tumbled with eating and exercise for health & longevity, and for sports performance. And, the unshortened world eats for health & longevity.
Now, when you travel, you will see & meet people from various cultures, traditions, living in variegated regions of the world. Their eating pattern and lifestyle is so diverse and involves so much history, that’s it’s virtually untellable to explore it all. A simple dish can be made in thousands of ways, variegated households, considering of the use of variegated methods of cooking, and the variegated ingredients used.
For e.g. if we want to melt potato, can you plane guess, how many types of potato dishes are relished virtually the world? Every country, every state, every municipality & town, and every house in that town will have a variegated way of cooking potatoes. The end dish will taste veritably different, in variegated households, despite of the fact that the wiring ingredient is potato.
That’s how diverse and trappy the world is. Now, imagine a dietician or trainer, prescribing a nutrition to their clients, totally devoid of taste, variety and veritably wayfarer to their culture, traditions and taste buds.
Imagine a trainer forcing an Indian vendee to slosh keto diet, GM or Blood Group diet, not considering its needed, but considering its trending, and it will show short-term & temporary, but a bit faster results. Imagine the value of stress on the clients mind, expressly when they are once under massive pressure from various other aspects of their lives, be it financial, family or work, or may be an illness of a family member, or a disease they are themselves suffering from.
That’s one reason, I question so many so-called nutritionists and trainers, on the understructure of the nutrition they prescribe or recommend to their clients. Not one single person has overly been worldly-wise to wordplay those questions, considering they don’t have an answer. The wondrous world of fitness & nutrition has been bought to a level where its plagued with ravages and chaos. The sole motive for most of these individuals, who are responsible for such clients, is pure profits.
Now let me ask you couple of questions, which in turn you should ask your dietician or trainer, to light their brains up a bit:
There are thousands of traditions and cultures virtually the world, and millions of ways to slosh and eat food. Please tell me which cultural way of eating, can you term as bad?
Mind you, I am talking well-nigh cultural & traditional way of eating, not industrial foods or processed packaged foods in the market.
If all the cultures have their diverse way of eating and consuming foods, then, population of which culture is sick or obese, or suffering from lifestyle diseases, considering they are consuming their traditional foods? Are Japanese unhealthy, or are Koreans & Chinese Obese, or are Indians sick? Are Americans obese, Europeans sick, or Australians dying more?
If the wordplay for the whilom question is NO, then why the hell suddenly most dieticians and fitness coaches, unpatriotic themselves from traditional way of eating, and prescribing the most weirdest and blandest of the foods to their clients?
Why yellow breast and not whole yellow or yellow broth? Why egg whites and not whole eggs? Why tofu and not paneer or vice versa? Why brown specie and not roti? Why gluten free? Why keto? Why broccoli and not all vegetables?
Now, when it comes to fitness, how do people virtually the world train or remain fit? Is everyone pursuit single soul part bodybuilding workouts? Most importantly, how do you pinpoint fitness? Is the aim or goal of every individual same, when it comes to fitness?
That’s why I tell people that if you want to learn the real meaning of fitness and nutrition, then travel. See, how the world’s healthiest and longest living people stay and live. How they eat, how they work, and how they have a happy and positive vein towards life.
Nutrition books teach you everything well-nigh nutrition science, but no one typesetting can overly teach you the way the world consumes food. People who are trying to follow extremely scientific way of eating, by gingerly every single calorie they put in their mouths, are the most miserable & unhappy people.
Not that calorie counting is an issue. It’s a unconfined way to get a hang of the quantity of supplies consumed. But in the long run, you can’t live every moment of your life with a calculator in hand.
Travel and see how supplies is the pleasure of life and how it gives satisfaction and happiness to the people who relish it. Travel and see, why calorie counting is unchangingly approximate, never accurate, as there are millions of variegated ways to prepare food.
People who translating their clients to siphon a weight machine everywhere to measure food, and a calculator to count calories wherever they go, have only studied formulas, but never understood nutrition or eating as a whole.
I unchangingly say one thing, and I will say it again: fitness is a part of life, and not the unshortened life, unless your aim is specific like stuff a competitive sportsmen. if you cannot follow a nutrition for life, and not enjoying what you are eating, then you are just on a short adventure.
