Stay away from crash diets or quick weight-loss schemes. Expect that long-term changes in lifestyle habits and nutrition will be required in order to maintain weight, prevent and cure disease.

Drugs and chemicals in foods affect our health in negative ways. They do not belong in a healthy body.

Make sure that you understand that nutritional needs change due to genetics, stresses that we impose on our bodies, during growth and changes in our body as well as when we age.

We are strongly influenced by the media and by old habits. Do not fall prey to common illusions that can distort your understanding of your true nutritional needs.

Understand that people come up with all sorts of excuses for not eating healthy or for not following a healthy lifestyle. In most cases it comes down to poor motivation or discipline, lack of knowledge or misinformation about nutrition or poor management of time.

Our genotype and phenotype influence our health status. Our greatest chance to improve our health is to improve those factors that are in our power to change. Our genetic character is something that we are born with but it can also be influenced to a certain degree.

Foods grown in some soils may be deficient in certain minerals and as a result we can suffer vitamin and mineral deficiencies in some nutrients.

Diets fail because of high expectations that are anticipated too quickly and because of a poor understanding of nutritional principles and ones body.

Every body is different and nutritional requirements are different for each person.

Our primary nutritional goal should be to obtain food that is as close to natural as possible without chemical preservatives, colors or additives.

Use organically grown produce, as it is usually highest in nutrients and without pesticides and preservatives.

Earthworms are nature's way to cleanse, aerate and detoxify our soil and can greatly improve the quality of our plant foods.