Simple Five-Food Salad Meal!
Posted by mlundegren in Natural Eating on May 10, 2013
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Almost any approach to healthy eating can create delicious meals when the fridge is full, but how about when it’s empty? This quick-to-make salad meal uses just five foods and still is extra-healthy and a feast for the senses. It highlights the natural power of creating meals the HumanaNatura way and following HumanaNatura’s OurPlate eating guidelines. Check it out!
Today’s HumanaNatura salad meal begins with cod pieces (#1) that are pan sautéed with sliced red onion (#2) and a few seasonings (garlic bits, curry, cinnamon, allspice, paprika, lemon, and black pepper). As the fish cooks, we make a salad base and veggie mix of arugula (#3), halved and sliced Persian cucumbers (#4), and cut grape tomatoes (#5). When the fish and onions are done, they are added still warm to our plate, and it’s all garnished with parsley, lemon, and black pepper. Fast, delicious, and healthy…as always, when we prepare our meals the HumanaNatura way…and even when we can count our foods on one hand!
Learn more about creating naturally delicious and optimally nutritious meals via OurPlate, HumanaNatura’s simple optimal eating guide and meal rating tool. And experience how this science-based and 100% natural approach to our daily meals can change the way you eat, feel, and live. Perfect your skills at making delicious and naturally healthy salad meals that follow the OurPlate guidelines via the Meals tab above, our popular article Perfect Salad Meals, or the Natural Eating section of our comprehensive Personal Health Program.
Once you have begun eating the HumanaNatura way, you can explore your many opportunities for new, more natural, and healthier life between meals – via HumanaNatura’s complete and naturally open-ended system for lifelong and lifewide health and fitness. Check out an overview of our health programs at The Four HumanaNatura Techniques.
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Cross-Quarter Greetings To You!
Posted by mlundegren in Natural Living, Research & News on May 5, 2013
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Greetings from HumanaNatura at the cross-quarter! In the natural year, we are halfway between the more naturally balanced time of the last equinox and the extremes of light and darkness of the coming solstice.
Right now is a great time to focus action on your Natural Life Plan, so that you can celebrate your life and health successes as fully as possible when the solstice arrives, in another eighth of the year.
If you have not yet created a Natural Life Plan to guide your use and expression of the third HumanaNatura technique, Natural Living, these links will take you to our planning worksheets and seven-step planning process. Together, these resources will help you begin more intentionally health-centered and naturally progressive life in the days and weeks ahead.
Our newest member newsletter was released today as well, which is published eight times yearly in harmony with the natural year, providing updates on HumanaNatura’s resources, programs, and worldwide health campaigns. To receive future HumanaNatura newsletters or learn more about our global practitioner-advocate network, go to Join HumanaNatura.
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Ten Reasons To Use HN-100!
Posted by mlundegren in Natural Communities, Natural Eating, Natural Exercise, Natural Living, Research & News on April 11, 2013
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If you are new to HumanaNatura, or just want to increase your mastery of our four natural health techniques, you may want to check out HN-100. As the name implies, HN-100 is our free 100-day health and fitness program, designed to introduce HumanaNatura’s revolutionary, science-based natural health system to you in a progressive and step-by-step way.
For people who like to learn by doing, or who like to cross off to-do list items, HN-100′s weekly activities can the best way to learn about HumanaNatura, explore progressive modern life, and quickly and naturally increase our health and fitness – all at the same time.
HN-100′s Benefits
HN-100 is designed to allow adults of all ages to steadily transform their health, fitness, and quality of life through a structured and easy-to-follow daily fitness regime. HN-100 will progressively increase your health and fitness levels, while training you in HumanaNatura’s health techniques and preparing you to explore progressive natural living over time.
With HN-100, you will spend about an hour a day in health and fitness related activities, setting the stage for a sustained and important health commitment at this level throughout your life. At the same time HN-100 will allow you to experience firsthand the often startling benefits of HumanaNatura’s naturally complete and progressive approach to personal health promotion.
So if you want to quickly get into the best shape of your life and lay the foundation for progressive lifelong health and fitness, HumanaNatura’s HN-100 Natural Fitness Program is waiting for you.
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Examining Our Natural Curves
Posted by mlundegren in Natural Communities, Natural Living, Research & News on March 23, 2013
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By Mark Lundegren
My title may have led you to think I was going to argue for or against Rubenesque body types, or discuss a fitness insight from my work for HumanaNatura. But I actually want to share a strategy insight and talk about the curves of our lives and groups, rather than those of our limbs and torsos.
Though few of us have considered the idea that our lives and social settings can have a distinct underlying curve or shape, these natural patterns do indeed exist and are discoverable by us. What we might call our life-curves are real and tangible reflections of the way we live and, in particular, how we pattern our actions against our progressive potential. In theory and practice, life-curves prove quite powerful, in the results they create for us, and as a tool of personal and group strategy and aid to higher quality of life and functioning.
The Core Idea
The core idea of natural curves is that elemental patterns can be shown to underlie all of our lives, even as these patterns remain hidden to us. In essence, our personal life-curve is the overall direction that our life or life trajectory takes over time – again, against our progressive or developmental potential. In practice, understanding and seeing our life-curves is a lot like learning about climate. Like the larger conditions that span and influence the weather we encounter each day. life-curves are subtle but ever-present shapes behind the scenes, but ones that are equally accessible and even equally obvious once grasped.
As a model of a critical dynamic underlying our lives – essentially our degree of natural progressivity or tendency to increase the quality of our functioning or health - life-curves describe organic forces or patterns that reflect and ultimately govern our lives in important ways. Because of this, probing these background patterns proves essential to the work of progressive modern living. And, as you will see, life-curves are shapes that reflect processes we can each sense, assess, and ultimately alter ourselves.
To introduce this insight-rich, immediately actionable, and potentially life-changing concept, I’d like to talk about three life-curves in particular. I would also like to again underscore that this simple but powerful model of life applies to groups too. Just as with individual people, organizations and communities, and even whole societies, can be seen as having a distinct and dominating curve or trajectory – one that expresses and predicts its underlying health and progressive potential.
As background, I should add that the idea our lives and the world around us have a tangible and health-impacting shape comes from my workshops and will be discussed in my first full-length book, due out in the second half of the year. As you will see, each of the three curves I will introduce implies a very different mode of modern living or collective functioning.
Equinox Greetings!
Posted by mlundegren in Natural Living, Research & News on March 20, 2013
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Greetings from HumanaNatura at the equinox! In the natural year, we are now halfway between the extremes of light and darkness of the summer and winter solstices. Everywhere on earth, there is equal day and night, and a heightened balance or centering that touches many aspects of life.
In the HumanaNatura natural health system, we encourage practitioners to use the twice-yearly opportunity and special character of each equinox to seek new attentiveness and self-awareness. The equinox is a time that is naturally conducive to reflection and planning, and we advocate both activities now to mark and make use of this equinox.
For people using our natural health system, HumanaNatura recommends the crucial practice of reviewing and updating our Natural Life Plan at this and every equinox – making changes as needed, and renewing and revitalizing our commitment to progressive natural life and health for the months ahead.
If you have not yet created a Natural Life Plan – guiding your use and expression of the third HumanaNatura technique of Natural Living – this link and one to our planning worksheets will get you started on our seven-step life planning process. We hope these important HumanaNatura resources will help you to begin more intentional living, and naturally progressive and health-seeking life, in the days and weeks ahead.
Our newest community newsletter was released today, which is published eight times yearly in harmony with key milestones of the natural year. To receive future HumanaNatura member newsletters or learn about the important benefits of membership in our global practitioner-advocate network, go to Join HumanaNatura.
In the meantime, however you mark this equinox, we wish you natural balance and new natural health and happiness!
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Natural Truth: Green Over Red
Posted by mlundegren in Natural Eating, Research & News on March 1, 2013
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We’d like to answer briefly but definitively the question of whether green diets are better than red ones, and also explain which forms of modern eating are likely best overall and why. To do this, we’ll first define our terms and then consider the overall health implications of four potential daily diets on the “red-green” continuum.
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When we talk about green diets, we of course mean ones dominated by plant foods, whether measured by both food volume or total calories. Green diets typically will have at least 65% of calories from vegetable sources, and often very high amounts of raw vegetables and fruits in particular.
Green eating includes not just vegetarian and vegan diets, but also other vegetable and fruit-rich forms of eating – such as the Mediterranean diet and HumanaNatura’s OurPlate healthy eating plan (based on the science of natural human eating).
Red diets, by contrast, are ones where food volume and calories are dominated by animal foods, and where animal proteins and fats will generally account for more than 50% of total calories. Red-based eating includes diets rich in fatty red meats and eggs, but also ones with high amounts of lean meats, poultry, and fish.
In defining and contrasting these two general and common modes of modern eating, we would also like to introduce the idea of beige diets. By beige diets, we mean eating patterns high in carbohydrate and/or fat-rich industrial and agricultural foods – foods other than those in our primary natural diet of unprocessed meats, raw vegetables, and fruit. Modern calorie-dense beige foods typically displace or augment natural meat, raw vegetable, and fruit consumption and frequently result in greatly elevated daily calorie levels.
On this point, we would add that when beige eating is blended with a green or red dietary pattern – as is common today – we get the variants of grain and bean dominated beige-green diets and fast food oriented beige-red diets (think soyburgers or hamburgers eaten with sugary sodas and sweet dessert foods).
Mandarin Salmon Salad Meal!
Posted by mlundegren in Natural Eating on February 12, 2013
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It’s easy to create healthy and satisfying meals the HumanaNatura way and following HumanaNatura’s OurPlate healthy eating guidelines. In the HumanaNatura approach, you can pick a creative theme or simply pick from whatever natural foods are in your refrigerator More than likely, you will be able to create a terrific and optimally healthy meal in minutes, one that you and your family or guests will savor.
This yummy meal took just minutes to make. It begins with a salmon filet that is pan seared and then cooked covered with thin sliced red onion, garlic bits, turmeric, paprika sesame seeds, and red and black pepper. As the salmon cooks, we prepare a salad base and veggie mix of arugula, sliced Persian cucumbers, cut grape tomatoes, and halved mandarin orange pieces (from our friend Ken’s garden). When done, the cooked fillet is then added while still warm to our plate, and it’s all garnished with parsley, lemon, marjoram, and black pepper. Fast, delicious, and healthy…as always, when we prepare our meals the HumanaNatura way!
Learn more about creating naturally delicious and optimally nutritious meals via OurPlate, HumanaNatura’s simple optimal eating guide and meal rating tool. And experience how this science-based and 100% natural approach to our daily meals can change the way you eat, feel, and live. Perfect your skills at making delicious and naturally healthy salad meals that follow the OurPlate guidelines via the Meals tab above, our popular article Perfect Salad Meals, or the Natural Eating section of our comprehensive Personal Health Program.
Once you have begun eating the HumanaNatura way, you can explore your many opportunities for new, more natural, and healthier life between meals – via HumanaNatura’s complete and naturally open-ended system for lifelong and lifewide health and fitness. Check out an overview of our health programs at The Four HumanaNatura Techniques.
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