A holistic approach to nutrition and health

GORDAN MILJANOVIĆ, Master of Nutrition

''Holistic health implies caring for multiple aspects of health, or caring for the whole self - caring for the physical, mental, social and spiritual aspects of life.

Your diet, as just one aspect, plays an important role in your overall (holistic) health.

When you learn how to choose healthy and natural foods every day, you will gain a good ally for your health and overall well-being.

We all have our own story - and we all decide how that story will end.

My formal education led me in the direction of nutrition, and my personal life path has always slowly but surely drawn me towards an interest in topics of holistic health and human self-development - physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual.

It was this personal aspiration to seek holistic health and development that pushed me to organize my own diet, more than education or college itself.

Like many people, I automatically followed a typical "Western diet" for most of my youth, which was based on bread, pasta, fast food, deep fried food, a liter of milk from a carton a day and practically zero fruits and vegetables.

Each of us can have a wide range of problems that occur when we eat in a way that does not suit our body for a long time (in addition to all the other bad habits), and for me personally, these were four things: constant chronic lack of energy, occasional bloating and swelling, headaches associated with intestinal pain, and never normal, constantly soft stools.

At one point, I realized that I first had to help myself and organize myself, so that I could help others.

I stopped leaving nutrition to automation and took it into my own hands.

My problems have significantly decreased, and along the way I have realized that food is only one part of the mosaic towards health and the development of the wholeness of a human being.

But we all have to start somewhere, so why not with nutrition?

Healthy food can certainly be delicious, filling, fun, interesting, and work in alliance with our body, not against it.

Imagine if you were given only one car in this life, without the option of buying a new one. Would you take care of it, in the way you drove it, what fuel and oil you put in it, how much you listened to its operation, and how often you inspected and repaired it?

Although I believe that a human being is more than just this body, this body was given to us for a reason and purpose, so why not take care of it, support it, and make our lives easier in that way.

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