HumanaNatura Launches Free Meal Rating Guide, Using Its OurPlate Healthy Eating System

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Los Angeles, California, United States of America (Free-Press-Release.com) January 21, 2012 -- HumanaNatura today launched a free and easy-to-use meal rating guide, based on its "OurPlate" healthy eating model, allowing people to quickly assess meal quality and improve eating choices.

The new meal rating guide uses a 10-point approach consistent with OurPlate and key principles of Natural Eating from HumanaNatura's four-part natural health system. In the new approach, points are awarded based on the amount of raw vegetables, fruits, and natural proteins contained in the meal. The rating system removes points for inclusion of foods that are not part of the OurPlate model, and meal scores are greatly reduced when sweets are added.

In its NaturaLife blog post announcing the new guide - available at http://humananatura.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/quickly-rate-meals-via-ourplate/ - HumanaNatura characterized the rating method as simple and powerful, reliably providing a fast, realistic, and beneficial meal quality rating. In its post, HumanaNatura specifically appealed to people without a strong grounding in nutritional science, stating, "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."

HumanaNatura provided an overview of how the new rating system works in its post. "Up to six points are included for raw vegetables, two points for fruit, and two points for natural proteins," the post explained, "Based on this system for awarding food quality points, 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 guidelines."

Health advocate and HumanaNatura founder Mark Lundegren championed the new rating approach, saying, "We have found that this remarkably simple rating system accurately reflects the objective quality of most meals, and is a great short-cut to quickly and reliably gauge a meal’s health impact. We hope many people will use it,"

HumanaNatura's OurPlate healthy eating campaign was launched earlier this month, and is aimed at countering recently revised and suspect U.S. government nutritional guidelines. As the name suggests, HumanaNatura’s OurPlate campaign is intended to directly challenge and provide a healthier and more scientifically sound alternative to the U.S. government’s new "MyPlate" dietary model.

Although HumanaNatura’s OurPlate campaign seeks to counter the U.S. government’s MyPlate dietary proposals, HumanaNatura highlights in its campaign materials that the OurPlate model is applicable globally and hoped to slow and reverse adoption of U.S. nutritional guidelines in other countries. HumanaNatura is using its OurPlate campaign to improve health science awareness and advocacy more generally, with the aim of encouraging better nutritional and other health-related choices and policies, wherever and whenever possible.

About HumanaNatura
HumanaNatura is a global non-profit educational and advocacy organization based in the United States. HumanaNatura’s mission is to use modern science to promote progressive health awareness and quality of life in individuals and communities around the world. HumanaNatura supports a worldwide network of community-based health advocates who use and promote HumanaNatura and its four-part natural health system.

Contact

HumanaNatura encourages comments, questions, press inquiries, and professional feedback on its OurPlate model and overall natural health system via its website at www.Humananatura.org or its NaturaLife blog at www.humananatura.wordpress.com.

Mark Lundegren, Founder
HumanaNatura, Inc.
contactus@humananatura.org

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