Tasty Red Snapper Salad Meal!

OurPlate Score: 10

Sautéed the night before, this gently re-warmed turmeric-ginger red snapper fillet is combined with a half-plate of  arugula, splintered celery bits, quartered grape tomatoes, and a melange of kiwi and orange pieces. It’s garnished with a scattering of pistachios and anise seeds, diced fresh ginger, parsley, paprika, and black pepper. Yummy and only about five minutes from first touch of the refrigerator door to ready to eat!

Learn more about creating naturally delicious and optimally nutritious meals through OurPlate, HumanaNatura’s new healthy eating aid, and experience how this simple, science-based, and 100% natural approach to 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, we hope you will explore your other opportunities for new, more natural, and healthier life between meals – through HumanaNatura’s complete and naturally open-ended system for lifelong and lifewide health and fitness at The Four HumanaNatura Techniques.

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Natural Look at Social Networking

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By Mark Lundegren

Do you marvel at the new internet-enabled social networks we all now have, or at least all now can have? And do you feel that your network, electronic or otherwise, reflects conscious decisions and preferences on your part?

A new study of modern-day hunter-gatherers by Harvard University and The University of California encourages a broader view on both points. It suggests: 1) that modern-day online social networks are more closely linked to earlier natural human social dynamics than we may realize, and 2) that our personal social networking preferences may be much more predictable than we believe.

The new study examines how human social networks are structured in our natural hunter-gatherer setting, focusing on how people with varying propensities for cooperation and individualism naturally mix and adjust to one another. This structuring of high and low cooperators is important, since in a predominantly cooperative species like Homo sapiens, incentives naturally exist for people who are more self-interested to take advantage of our generally cooperative social setting.

But highly individualistic “free-riders” must be naturally limited and made exceptional, since excessive or normalized individualism risks threatening essential cooperation and the entire society. This problem has been with us since the beginning of social life itself, and remains one of the most important social policy issues today.

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Asian Inspired Surf & Turf Salad

OurPlate Score: 10

A beautiful, slightly exotic, and optimally healthy salad meal made in about 15 minutes. It features a ginger-tarragon stir-fry of sliced pork, squid, scallops, shrimp, and red onion, along with a melange of mandarin orange and berries, and a half-plate of raw veggies – including mixed greens, splintered celery pieces, diced cucumber, and quartered grape tomatoes. This wonderful mix of natural foods and flavors is garnished with a scattering of pistachios, parsley, coriander, and black pepper. Enjoy – we did!

Learn more about creating naturally delicious and optimally nutritious meals through OurPlate, HumanaNatura’s new healthy eating campaign, and experience how this simple, science-based, and 100% natural approach to 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, we hope you will explore your other opportunities for new, more natural, and healthier life between meals – through HumanaNatura’s complete and naturally open-ended system for lifelong and lifewide health and fitness at The Four HumanaNatura Techniques.

Tell your friends about OurPlate & HumanaNatura…promote new health!

Cajun Fish-Fry Salad Meal

OurPlate Score: 10

Don’t let a fear of health risks from fried foods keep you from enjoying lightly-sautéed fish and other natural proteins. A just out University of Madrid study confirms what many of us have found through years of Natural Eating and healthy blood lipid profiles: oil quality matters as much or more than oil quantity!

This healthy Cajun fish salad meal follows HumanaNatura’s OurPlate guidelines and scores a perfect 10 via our quick and easy OurPlate Meal Rating System. Made in minutes, the salad meal features sautéed white fish and red onion with herbs and a shot of cayenne pepper, a cool melange of diced kiwi and blueberries, and a half-plate of mixed greens with cut cherry tomatoes and diced cucumber. It’s all garnished with pistachios, parsley, paprika, coriander, a generous amount of anise, and just a bit of black pepper. Good!

Learn more about creating naturally delicious and optimally nutritious meals through OurPlate, HumanaNatura’s new healthy eating campaign, and experience how this simple, science-based, and 100% natural approach to 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, we hope you will explore your other opportunities for new, more natural, and healthier life between meals – through HumanaNatura’s complete and naturally open-ended system for lifelong and lifewide health and fitness at The Four HumanaNatura Techniques.

Tell your friends about OurPlate & HumanaNatura…promote new health!

Match-Up: OurPlate vs. MyPlate

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HumanaNatura advocates the OurPlate healthy eating model. OurPlate was designed using comprehensive nutritional, agricultural, and ecological science, and notably named to contrast it with the U.S. government’s MyPlate dietary approach.

While the meal photo on the left below may not be the finest specimen of the MyPlate approach in use, it is taken from an actual example of MyPlate being demonstrated by governmental officials.

Do you want a bite of the somewhat scary, what-were-they-thinking, and school cafeteria-inspired MyPlate meal, or the more natural and easily prepared OurPlate example alongside it? More importantly, does anyone think that the MyPlate example meal truly is superior nutritionally, in this and perhaps any form, to the healthy-just-to-look-at OurPlate Salad Meal shown on the right?

If you are thinking rematch, we would point out that even world-class master chefs using the governmental MyPlate approach will begin with a significant disadvantage relative to the OurPlate model. They will be forced to include unnatural, health-limiting, and ecologically harmful monocrop foods like grains and cereals. Relatedly, they will need to make way for bodily-inflaming and hormone-imbalancing beans and legumes. And in the end, they may have inadequate plate space for optimal amounts of health-essential proteins, fats, vitamins, and minerals.

Though we have little doubt that a good chef could make tasty meals with less healthy and natural MyPlate foods, the result of eating this way, especially over time, is far less appetizing. MyPlate is apt to lower our natural fitness, increase our risks of chronic health problems, and promote premature tissue impairment and aging, all while steadily undermining the natural environment upon which we all depend. In contrast to this, attractive, delicious, optimally healthy, and ecologically sustainable OurPlate meals can be made by anyone, quickly and easily, and with no special culinary skills.

Learn more about creating naturally delicious and optimally nutritious meals through OurPlate, HumanaNatura’s preferred healthy eating model. Experience how this simple, science-based, and 100% natural approach to our daily meals can change the way you eat, feel, look, and live. And perfect your skills at making delicious and naturally healthy Salad Meals that follow the OurPlate method via HumanaNatura’s popular article Perfect Salad Meals.

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Our Many Options to Go Lean

Going lean and healthy is easier and more delicious than most of us realize, once we learn to think and eat in terms of natural, quick-to-prepare Salad Meals. There are literally dozens of low-cost, lean proteins available to us.

This great example of a salad meal took ten minutes to make and is as delicious to eat as it is attractive to view. It begins with turkey breast slices seasoned with tarragon and turmeric, which were sautéed with red onions and ginger. This super-lean protein portion is then served with a bed of arugula and sliced avocado, cucumber, and cherry tomatoes…it’s all garnished with blueberries, parsley, paprika, coriander, tarragon, and black pepper. Need we say more?

Learn how to make delicious and naturally healthy salad meals like this via the Meals tab above or our popular article Perfect Salad Meals. And explore our science-based guidelines for healthy natural nutrition through the Natural Eating section of HumanaNatura’s comprehensive Personal Health Program.

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An Integrated Outlook on Fitness

By Mark Lundegren

Are you one of those people who has it all…intelligence, physical fitness, natural good looks, lasting happiness, a personality that invites others, and maybe musical or another creative talent? If you answered, “not quite,” would you like to be this way?

The truth is not just that we can have or be all these things, but that we naturally are all these things. In an area of findings that can lead to new insights into our life and health potential, these various attributes have been shown in research to be natural aspects or qualities of a complete, integrated, and healthy human being. They have also been shown to increase or diminish together…as our natural health improves or as it is reduced.

As natural beings and highly-evolved social animals, possessing these essential features of successful human life is our expected condition and not an exceptional state – whenever we are naturally and fully expressed as people, balanced, vital, and well. When we are in the “not quite” category, or worse, this is a sign that our overall health and natural vitality have been compromised, underdeveloped, or misunderstood.

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Shellfish & Veggies Mean Health!

Unless you are allergic to shellfish, mixing them with raw veggies in a HumanaNatura inspired salad meal is about as healthy as you can eat. The approach combines lean fish protein from low in the marine food chain with vitamin, mineral, and fiber-rich vegetables and fruits. The result is a meal that is delicious, satisfying, easy to prepare, and perfectly balanced between needed high-quality proteins, healthy fats, and natural carbohydrates.

This great example of a shellfish salad meal begins with a curry and ginger-seasoned shrimp and red onion sauté, and pairs it with mixed baby greens, a bit of arugula, cucumber, avocado, a few berries, and sliced grape tomatoes. It’s all garnished with pistachios, parsley, coriander, and red and black pepper to create a meal that is as beautiful to look at as it is to enjoy.

Learn how to make delicious and naturally healthy salad meals like this via the Meals tab above or our popular article Perfect Salad Meals. And explore our science-based guidelines for healthy natural nutrition through the Natural Eating section of HumanaNatura’s comprehensive Personal Health Program.

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