Our optimum diet has two principles that seem diametrically opposed: we need to get high levels of nutrients and we need to achieve this in fewer and fewer calories. These needs force us to scrutinize our foods in a new way. It we want to achieve optimum health and longevity we have to think about nutrients per calorie(NPC).

This is basic cost analysis we have to keep in mind when we choose foods. Because we are usually limiting our calorie intake, every calorie has to count in terms of overall nutritional value. This concept of NPC explains why junk foods are junk: they provide virtually no nutrition and a lot of calories. 

With nutripoints, you can get over 100 percent of any RDA, along with optimum amounts of fiber, protein, and complex carbohydrates, with the same number of calories. It costs vitamins and minerals to burn up calories. 

If you're not getting adequate nutrients along with the calories you're burning up, the body's stores of vitamins and minerals must be called upon to make .up for the lack in the food itself. This is the common predicament that can lead to clinical or sub clinical deficiencies and less-than-optimal function of various body processes.

A high NPC ratio is the basic principle of every healthful diet. Nutripoints rates every food on the basis of this critical nutrient-per-calorie ratio. Because nutripoints rates just about every conceivable food, it allows you to create your own diet, one that suits your tastes and your life-style.