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.

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

Natural Look at Social Networking

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.

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!

Enjoy a Cajun Fish-Fry Salad!

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!

Quickly Rate Meals via OurPlate

Learn about HumanaNatura’s OurPlate Healthy Eating Campaign.

HumanaNatura’s OurPlate healthy eating campaign offers more than just general guidance on the best way to eat naturally and optimally. You can use the OurPlate approach anytime to quickly rate the meal options that you and others have. Rating meals with OurPlate is easy and powerful. With just a bit of practice, an OurPlate rating can be created for any meal in a few seconds, helping to improve the quality of your nutritional choices and advice.

Rating meals with OurPlate

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To rate any meal using HumanaNatura’s OurPlate model, just follow these five simple steps:

1. Major points for raw veggies – give a meal six points if it is at least half raw vegetables (or veggies that could be eaten raw). If the amount of raw veggies is less than half of the meal, adjust the points downward proportionately. In any case, the maximum score for raw veggies is six points, reflecting the gradually diminishing benefits of adding food, no matter how healthy.
2. Points for raw fruit – give the meal two points if it includes at least one serving of fruit. Again, two points is the maximum score for added fruit.
3. Points for natural protein – give the meal two points if one serving of a natural protein is included. Yes, two points maximum score here too.
4. Take-down for other foods – subtract two points for each serving of other foods that are included in the meal, but this time with no limit on the number of points that can be taken away.
5. Special take-down for sweets - subtract four points for each serving of sweets that are included, again with no limit on the number of points that can be taken away.

As you can see, the maximum possible meal score with OurPlate is 10. In practice, this score is reserved for vegetable-rich and health-optimal salad meals made using HumanaNatura’s Natural Eating guidelines.

Match-Up: OurPlate vs. MyPlate

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OK, so HumanaNatura created and strongly favors OurPlate, and maybe this is not the best example of the U.S. government’s new MyPlate guidelines in action. But it is an actual photo of the recently unveiled approach being demonstrated by government officials. Wow! Anyone want a bite of this sort of scary and decidedly spartan MyPlate, instead of the HumanaNatura OurPlate example we have put up alongside it? And does anyone really think that this MyPlate prototype is nutritionally superior to our delicious and healthy-just-to-look-at HumanaNatura salad meal?

Click to learn how to quickly score meals using the OurPlate Meal Rating Guide.

If you are thinking rematch, we would point out that even a world-class master chef using the government MyPlate guidelines is going to begin from a severe nutritional disadvantage relative to HumanaNatura’s OurPlate approach. Specifically, they will be forced to include unnatural and health-limiting foods like sugar and lectin-rich grains and cereals, carbo-bombs of cooked starches, hyper-allergenic beans and legumes, and a good helping of dairy products (which is fine if you are a newborn calf).

OurPlate – Better than MyPlate!

Click to learn how to quickly score meals using the OurPlate Meal Rating Guide.

The U.S. government recently took away its old food pyramid, after using this symbol and its component food groups for decades to summarize (and misrepresent) how Americans ideally should eat. In its place is a new nutritional icon and set of recommendations called MyPlate.

Unfortunately, the new look and health guidance of MyPlate are only a partial improvement on the disastrous approach of the old pyramid and food group thinking that came before it. This outgoing model for optimal eating failed in at least three important ways: 1) it was inconsistent with our best science and growing research into human eating in nature and under artificial influences, 2) it was from the start heavily pressured and corrupted by agribusiness and other interests, and 3) as a policy tool it remained at best ineffectual at countering alarming dietary trends over at least two generations.

Although the new MyPlate recommendations are a step forward in two areas - notably no longer promoting the consumption of sweets and excesses of fats – this new model for nutritional health is largely a repackaging of older and now outdated nutritional ideas and carries forward several important shortcomings and errors from the retiring pyramid and earlier food group model.

Introducing OurPlate…A Better Approach

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To correct crucial flaws in the U.S. government’s new MyPlate approach, HumanaNatura is today introducing its alternative, 100% natural, and science-intensive OurPlate healthy eating campaign, targeting health-seeking people and communities around the world. The campaign’s orange icon above graphically summarizes essential  dietary practices from HumanaNatura’s Natural Eating technique, the first of four science-based health techniques that comprise comprehensive natural health system.

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

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.

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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