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Welcome to HumanaNatura’s overview of the OurPlate natural eating model!
OurPlate is a simple but powerful dietary approach, and groundbreaking aid for more natural and optimal modern eating. It emphasizes whole and ecologically-sustainable foods, along with active personal exploration of our optimal portions and proportions of these foods.
The OurPlate model and graphic are from Mark Lundegren’s Our Three Natural Paths, and in all summarize essential ideas from the book’s chapter on Modern Natural Eating. Instructions for using the Our Plate model are included in the book, and the OurPlate graphic is distributed here for general use with permission from the author, subject to the book’s terms of use.
OurPlate is based on contemporary nutritional, agricultural, and ecological science, in conjunction with companion research examining our original human eating patterns in nature. In practice, OurPlate helps us first better understand and visualize ideal modern eating, and then create meals that are naturally delicious, easy to prepare, and optimally healthy for both us and our planet.
The OurPlate name was chosen for contrast with the U.S. government’s heavily promoted, but deeply flawed, MyPlate nutritional model. The names may seem similar, but the two dietary approaches are substantially different. This includes their basic orientation, breadth and depth of employed science, underlying nutritional principles, range of recommended eating practices, expected individual and environmental health impacts, and confirmable immediate and long-term personal benefits.
As you may know, the governmental MyPlate model proposes only minor adjustments in the way that people generally eat today, and therefore only modest changes in how food is typically understood, consumed, and produced. Because of this, adoption and promotion of the MyPlate method can be expected to produce little or only incremental improvements in our general health levels, except in cases of people with very poor diets.
By contrast, the OurPlate dietary approach involves a very different, far more natural, more informed, and reliably more health-transforming approach to modern eating. When used consistently, the OurPlate model can produce rapid and sometimes startling personal health and fitness improvements, and for people with average and even above average diets. Once again, this is all while fostering modern eating patterns that are readily made ecologically sustainable in time and for future generations.
As you can explore and validate for yourself, the OurPlate model and its underlying Modern Natural Eating principles and practices form a powerful, renaturalizing, and transforming approach to eating and overall personal fitness today. Using the OurPlate approach and its essential guidelines, even for a few weeks, you will find that OurPlate does indeed offer a new, simple, natural, and remaking way to organize your daily meals and lifelong eating patterns.
Learn more about OurPlate and optimal modern eating at Our Three Natural Paths, and expect lifelong health improvements from the approach!
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Thanks HumanaNatura, I look forward to activating the principals of evolutionary living to my daily practice. Would love to know more about food combining and alkaline/acid ph levels in the body, and how fruit and protein combos affect one another. I have heard to keep the two separate, have you discovered any science uncovering more information regarding food combining and balancing internal pH for optimal human health?
Thanks Amandalalove. HN does not advocate strict food combining or ph targeting practices. As long as you do not have discomfort from specific food combinations, you are free to eat as you wish, within our overall Natural Eating guidelines of course. Though ph targeting is a relatively new idea, food combining is not. In any case, our best science supports focusing on natural food quality and optimal proportioning per OurPlate. Hope this helps, Mark
Criticism of MyPlate by Harvard researchers (though they still include grains): http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/harvard-to-usda-check-out-the-healthy-eating-plate-201109143344
New study supporting key ideas in OurPlate https://humananatura.wordpress.com/2012/06/27/study-supports-ourplate/
I see a lot of good things about your program, but I am not a believer in evolution, and I don’t believe that grains are bad for us. Maybe for certain people, but not for the majority of us.
The HN system is science rather than belief-based, and counterintuitive to many of us at first, Lisa. You might try the OurPlate approach for a few weeks, and see what you will see. In addition to potential personal benefits, it is more natural and far better for the environment as well.
nice and help——— thank a lot