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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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.

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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!

The OurPlate Natural Eating Model has been updated, click here for the newest version.

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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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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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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Yummy quartered veggie omelet with lots of greens, a few berries, and diced orange pieces…epitomizing naturally healthy salad meal eating, with a little animal protein and fat but mostly raw vegetables and fruits. This delicious meal is garnished with pistachios, parsley, paprika, anise, and red and black pepper. Really good!

Learn how to make delicious 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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By Mark Lundegren

By now, nearly everyone on the planet understands that high sugar consumption may not be good for us. If this point seems no longer worthy of mention, we would encourage you to reconsider.

After all, not very long ago many of us were skeptical of sugar’s health risks, just as some of us are still, offering an important lesson about our perceptions generally. And in our time, even with our new sugar misgivings, commercial interests still actively tout sugar’s dubious benefits, blithely characterize extensive research suggesting toxicity and harm from high sugar consumption as less than credible, and quietly lobby for continued public policies friendly to sugar producers.

Modern Sugar In Four Of Its Many Familiar Forms

But more important than the past and present-day denial of sugar risks is the fact that, for a majority of us, our daily life still involves enormous and unnatural sugar consumption, in both direct and indirect forms (such as carbohydrate-rich grains and foods with added sugars).

Our behavior, in other words, generally runs counter to our growing belief about the harm of high-sugar diets, with sugar consumption (including high fructose sweeteners) still on the rise worldwide. A world leader in added or free sugar use (and obesity and other diseases of affluence) is the United States, where average added sugar consumption is now about 40 kilograms (90 pounds) per person annually. Unfortunately, other nations are not far behind.

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