Do you eat healthy or just think you do? - Part 2

Yesterday I discussed a few of ND's great nutrition tools, relevant to health and weight loss goals. Today I'm covering a few more that you may find particularly helpful.

Once a food item is looked up there are other useful insights about food that you can investigate by using the Nutritional Target Map which appears in every ND food analysis (including the ND's Total Consumption Report). This Target Map reviews the foods in relation to its' ability to support your current nutritional goals.

For example you can see what percentage of fat, carbohydrate, or protein is contained in that food. This tool is the Caloric Ratio Pyramid. You look up salami and you can easily identify that it's not exactly a good protein source because it's actually 63% fat! (Now that's an eye opener!) And it's mostly that heart clogging saturated fat. That wouldn't exactly fit into a low-fat food plan.

Another useful guide ND Nutritional Target Map has is a Fullness Factor guide. It uses a scale of 0-5 predicting how satisfied you will be after consuming a particular food. The higher the FF numbers indicate how a lower calorie serving of that food is likely to fill you up compared to foods with a lower rank number.

I encourage you to review this information as you are looking up foods to ensure you are making the best possible choices for your health goals.