What is the right diet for humanity anyways? Is it....

a) the raw food diet?
b) the macrobiotic diet?
c) eat for your blood type?
d) vegan diet?
e) elimination diet?
f) standard north amercian diet?

There are so many varying opinions. I specialize in raw food nutrition, but that does not mean that when patients come to see me I am going to put them on a raw food diet. None of my patients are on a raw food diet, I am not on a raw food diet. I just have greater knowledge about raw foods than any other genre. 

We are not all created equal, if we were all cookie cutters, carbon copies of each other than maybe we could all follow the same diet. But we have different upbringings, limitations, lifestyles, activity levels, genetics, and enviroments, etc. So in my opinion, trying to  place one diet onto everyone is like trying to force a square peg into a round hole.  I believe the proper diet is what our body tells us it is. I do not follow any diet, I eat what my body asks for, and this requires getting in touch with our body.  I feel that if we consume a food and we feel

1.) lighter
2.) happier
3.) more balanced
4.) grounded
5.) healthier
6.) vibrant, energetic

Then the food is good for us

Alternatively if we feel

1.) heavier
2.) sick, depleted
3.) foggy in our mind

4.) spacey
5.) depressed or tired
6.) unpleasant reaction, like a rash, or hives

Then the food is not good for us

For example, my body really doesn't like cacao (raw chocolate), or spirulina, or hemp seed oil, or incan berries, my body feels less healthy. So I do not eat it, it doesn't matter what an expert says about raw chocolate, or how good hemp seed oil is. My body seems to believe that coconut oil and olive oil are preferable to hemp seed oil. My body also feels that nori is preferable to spirulina, and goji berries are preferable to incan berries. I prefer rice over pasta, and fish over chicken.

What is poison to my body is refined sugar, coffee, alcohol, and processed foods. That's just me. I feel this approach gives the authority back to the wisdom of our body, and this is what I teach my patients. If they feel that certain foods provide benefit to their body then I trust that. I have learned that it is better to offer people alternatives and tips rather than a diet set in stone, for truthfully many people do not follow a diet plan well, because their needs and lifestyle change on a continual basis. Diet plans are too restrictive, in my experience.  If my patients learn to listen to their body they can take that wisdom and apply it for the rest of their life, and are empowered to heal themselves, if no nutritionist is around to help them, it doesn't matter.

Lindsay Tietz, BSc, HD
Owner Intention to Heal
Homeopathic Medicine Practitioner and Holistic Nutrition Expert
Proudly Serving The Toronto Danforth Area Directly 

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