“A happy belly is a healthy body.” This ancient expression is still true nowadays. The uncertainty, the mystery, is that what makes your belly happy may or may not be what makes my belly happy. In other words, what is healthy for you may or may not be healthy for me.
This approach to healthy eating confronts the model of an optimal one-size-fits-all diet for everybody. A “caveman” or “hunter-gatherer” paleo diet can be healthy for many people, while a vegan “plant-based” diet can be healthy for many other people.
The blood type is a factor.
Are you constipated? Do you feel bloated, excess gas, diarrhea, or stomach pain after a meal? Only you can measure your digestion. If your digestion is not healthy, only you can do something about it – to gain health, to feel better, and to lose weight.
In the boiling caldron of conflicting and contradictory information about health, nutrition, and healthy food, how to find a solution for you? How to look for the truth? One way is to compare different sources of information, to test ideas (and experiment on) oneself first, to observe, to analyze, to listen to critics, and then possibly to reach conclusions.
Digestion is not a collective activity. Only you can observe your own digestion.
Why in case of chronic illness is a change in eating habits the last resort – and not the first resort?
HealthViaFood summarizes and simplifies ideas and methods from books by independent doctors and others. References to original sources are included at the end of each article.
None of these ideas have been proven by clinical studies, but they have been tested and confirmed by observations, trial and error, and repetition, according to the original authors.
There are thousands of books, courses, and websites about health, nutrition, healthy food, how to live longer, how to stay healthy, and how to control weight. Many are excellent. The difference is that HealthViaFood makes it possible to :
- personalize your nutrition,
- forget about calories, and
- do it yourself (DIY) for free,with or without supplements.
Personalize your nutrition.
According to an ancient Roman philosopher, Lucretius, “one man’s food can be another man’s poison.” We are all human, but we are each individuals with a unique identity, history, and metabolism. The body is a garden, but your garden is not my garden.
The key concept is biochemical individuality.
What is your innate prevailing body shape – beefy, muscular and big-boned (endomorph), muscular but less bony (mesomorph), or thin-muscled and -boned (ectomorph)? Different innate shapes make the so-called “body mass index” irrelevant to the questions, “what is a healthy weight for me?” and “how do I reach it?”. Body shape may also affect metabolism and digestion.
Do you know your ABO blood type?
Personalizing nutrition begins with knowing yourself and then listening to your own body.
Forget about calories.
HealthViaFood goes beyond cutting junk food and eating more fruits and vegetables.
Forget about calories. These ideas make it possible to eat as much as you want – and still gain health and lose weight. Results can take one to three weeks. How is your digestion before and after you made the change?
DIY – improve your digestion – for free.
A frequently asked question is – “what do I eat (or not eat) to keep myself healthy?“ There is much confusing and contradictory information about this. Many academic studies about nutrition contradict each other, such as those about coffee, soy, saturated fats, and red meat.. Why? There is simply no one set of eating habits and “healthy foods” (no single “diet”) that is healthy for everybody all of the time, in my opinion.
To gain health (and to lose weight), the key is to improve digestion. The digestive system is a ten-meter tube. You have some control over your digestion, if you choose to use it. If your digestion is healthy over time, you can become healthy if you are not already. Good health begins and ends in the gut – with healthy digestion. A healthy belly is a happy belly.
Ideas you can use
HealthViaFood is named after the book “Health via Food” by Dr. William Howard Hay, MD, published in 1929, and available online for free.
After years as a conventional doctor, Dr. Hay was overweight and in ill health. He healed himself by changing his eating habits. In his book, he described how he did it. He prompted many people to heal themselves of their chronic health problems – simply by changing their eating habits.
Dr. Hay’s ideas were later independently confirmed by Dr. Herbert Shelton, MD, in his book “Food Combining“, published in 1952.
Briefly, the main ideas of HealthViaFood are food combining, the acid-alkaline balance, blood type eating, detox, replacing (junk foods), fasting, and chrononutrition.
By the way, there is no need to believe me. You can do your own research, using open source references at the ends of the articles or other sources. The only way to know whether an idea works for you is to try it for yourself (for at least three weeks) and then see.
Your health or your habits?
Skeptical? So am I. What matters more to you – your health or your habits? Results could be conditionally guaranteed, in three weeks or less, depending on a strict change in eating habits (a true desire to be healthy) and physical movement such as walking, bicycling, or yoga.
Health is a choice that begins in the mind – without shame, guilt nor moral judgment. It can be difficult to change one’s own habits, but food substitutes are possible. The sweetest pleasure of all is a long life in good health and not the taste of sugar.
Nota bene. Some people choose what to eat and what not to eat for philosophical, ideological, or spiritual reasons, not for health reasons. This site may not serve these people, although vegan recipes are included. This site is oriented towards healthy food and the search for the truth by the free individual.
Nothing in this site is intended to diagnose, prevent, treat, or cure any disease. If you have a medical condition, see a doctor.
“One man’s foof is another man’s poison.” – Lucretius, 99-55 BC