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Prioritize your health & wellbeing | Nataliey Bitature

26 Jun 2019 · 1 min

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A single-speaker YouTube talk by Nataliey Bitature encouraging listeners to prioritize health and wellbeing through hydration, whole-food intake, and balanced macronutrients. The speaker emphasizes drinking ample water (personally targets 3.5 liters/day), eating raw vegetables for vitamins, minerals and fiber, limiting processed foods, and following an 80/20 dietary principle (80% of intake being healthy).

Questions this video answers

3.5 liters per day (three and a half liters).

An 80/20 principle (aim for ~80% of daily intake to be healthy/whole foods).

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Healthy eating is super important because our bodies are our vessels in this life. It's the only home you will always have. So putting the right things in it make a huge difference in how you look and how you feel. One of the easiest things to change that makes a huge difference is water making sure you're well hydrated. Personally, I aim to have three and a half liters into my body every single day. And I feel like it helps with how you look and how you feel, how you sleep, how your body moves, and you can even start to lose weight just from being really well hydrated. Another important thing is the amount of raw vegetables that you eat, the amount of clean green that goes into your body. I know we are not rabbits, but we are also not dogs. We need to have the right kind of nutrition in our bodies. We need the minerals and the fiber and the vitamins that come with raw vegetables. That's the only way our body can rebuild and rejuvenate all the different kinds of cells that we have. It's also important that you have protein and carbs and fat. Like the food groups they taught us in primary school, our bodies do need extra everything from the different food groups. However, we have to watch out for all the processed food we have these days. And most of the time, if you're going to eat a lot of carbs, protein and fat, it comes in a processed way. So beware. Try and see how close the food is to how nature intended it to be, how we were supposed to put it in before humans came and messed with the system a bit. Another principle I really like to use is 80 20. So if 80% of what goes into my body every day is good for me, like water and stuff.