The better part about my GENESIS program , is that I get to seek advice from number of people, from virtually every occupation and age groups, from all over the world.
When I speak to them day-after-day, I get to learn rather a lot from them, after they share their stories about their life and experiences. Sometimes it makes me laugh, sometimes I get emotional, and other times I also get offended at what they’ve been through, due to another person’s mistake.
I also keep sharing my experiences with viewers of my social media channels, in order that they’ll learn from these mistakes, and watch out for such mishaps within the near future.
One of the numerous, but quite common issue I face with clients, is the flawed recommendations of food decisions, a transparent indication of copy pasting a western food plan from Google, without understanding the fundamentals of individual food decisions, their culture & traditions, their allergies & sensitivities, their preferences and more over the provision of those foods.
Recently a client from Sikar, Rajasthan, spoke to me before enrolling in my Genesis, like all of the clients do either before or immediately after enrolling. He appeared to have a way of mixed emotions. A little bit of frustration, but more of self-doubt and concern, as as to whether he would ever have the option to have a superb physique, without eating the flamboyant & exotic foods, which his former nutritionist and trainer have advisable.
For individuals who don’t know, Sikar is a city situated midway between Agra and Churu on the National Highway 52 within the state of Rajasthan in India. During medieval times, Sikar, Churu and Jhunjhunu district comprise of the Shekhawati region of Rajasthan. Today it’s one among the good tourist destinations in Rajasthan.
With the appearance of Internet and the social media, people from every walk of life,from different and distant corners of the country, are capable of access the knowledge and knowledge, which was previously considered out of reach.
In fact, it’s the opposite way round too. People living in Tier I cities and developed metros, at the moment are capable of get information and knowledge concerning the beautiful untouched places within the country, which that they had never heard of before.
The same is the case with fitness and nutrition information. Youngsters from all parts of the country, are capable of access one of the best of workout and nutrition information online.
But with this sudden rise, has its own set of problems. The primary being that, most people will not be capable of decipher between what’s right and what’s flawed. Social media has more useless, flawed and faux information, than useful one. This is true not only for fitness & nutrition field, but for many other fields be it finance, education, medical etc.
Let me offer you an example of this issue. When it involves obesity and weight reduction issues, it’s nothing recent and virtually every other person is on the lookout for a straightforward solution. The problem is that as a substitute of telling the reality behind the best form of exercise, food plan or supplementation, there are people giving all forms of self-made pseudoscientific information, simply with the motive of profits. Or, they’re simply copy pasting information, no matter who that information is for.
Just like this Genesis member. When I used to be talking to him, he worryingly asked me, that whether he can construct a superb physique ever in his life, without eating Avocado, or broccoli, or apple cider vinegar? As this was the foremost a part of the food plan given to him by his previous coach and nutritionist.
He said, that he has tried every shop in Sikar and even nearby areas, not even a single person has ever even heard of an Avocado, broccoli, or ACV. And he had given up hopes, as he had seen most individuals with a superb physique, on social media eating such exotic foods.
This just isn’t a brand new issues. There have been such non-sensical recommendations in a whole bunch of individuals I actually have consulted. Sometimes a South Indian is told to not have rice and occasional, and other times a North Indian is told to avoid roti and tea. But even worse, they’re asked to devour probably the most exotic and fancy foods, which most Indians have never even heard of before. Or in the event that they have, mainly through the social media, then it’s not possible to get access to them.
And cherry on the cake, even in the event you get access to them, they cost so exorbitantly high, that individuals will think ten times before buying them even once, ignore making them a component of their every day nutrition.
Foods like Avocado, Kiwi, Dragon Fruit, blue berries, goji berries, broccoli, asparagus, olives, passion fruit, mangosteen etc. simply to name a number of.
Are these nutritious? Of course they’re. But there is completely nothing special about any of them. They will not be native to our country, and since of globalization, are being imported from all over the world, attributable to which they cost over and over greater than what they’d cost within the countries where they’re grown and locally available. Just like foods from India would cost when exported to other nations.
Let’s see the value difference more practically:
An avocado at Walmart online store in US costs app. $0.88 to app. $1.
Whereas in India, it might cost anywhere from Rs. 150-250 or much more, for a single piece.
Which means an individual consuming an Avocado day-after-day would pay app. $30 for your entire month.
On the opposite hand, an individual in India, to achieve this, would should shell out somewhere between Rs. 4500-7500 a month.
But you don’t compare the costs based on currency difference. As for an individual in India, earning app. 50k a month, would should shell out over 10% of his entire salary just to purchase an Avocado. Whereas, the proportion of an individual earning $5000 a month in US, wouldn’t be even 1%.
Though most of those exotic vegetables and fruit are being locally grown in some parts of the country, but it surely’s still an extended option to go before they may be throughout the economic reach of most Indians.
Now, let’s speak about nutrition values. Because that’s what our amazing Indian educated, western influenced trainers and nutritionists, think is way high in these foods.
But when was the last time you compared apples and oranges? Both are fruits, have distinct tastes and nutrition values. Both are great for health.
The Indian recommendations for fruits is app. 150gm a day, and app. 350gm a day for vegetables .Whereas, the WHO/FAO report recommends 400g edible fruit and vegetables per day.
Can anyone show me if there may be any recommendations or special mentions of broccoli, dragon fruit, avocado, asparagus or blueberries? That’s because every country on the earth have different vegetables and fruit, that are locally grown and available at a price which is throughout the reach of majority of their population. And that’s one of the best dietary recommendations for them.
Therefore, all these western influenced trainers and nutritionists, ought to be first made to read local nutrition & dietetics books, before they begin giving advice to people.
Remember, you might be consulting Indian people from different age groups, multiple cultures, all having varied eating habits. You aren’t consulting a Bollywood actor or actress, who’ve on a regular basis and resources at their disposal and whose primary aim is to look good.
