If what you are considering buying at the grocery store has refined sugar added in the ingredient list, don’t buy this processed food. It will spike your insulin and blood sugar levels.
You should treat this added ingredient, which has no nutrition at all, as if it were poison to be avoided entirely. Treat it like poison — because for your system, it is.
Put matcha powder into your smoothies.
Learn how to eat for nutrition. Don’t be a typical dope about food.
The best thing to eat before your larger meal begins is a handful of mixed nuts and seeds. Eat these 10 minutes before you begin the main course. They will be high in both fat and protein, and fat and protein will slow down the digestion of the carbohydrates in the main course so that you don’t experience sharp insulin spikes, which is what you want. They will also increase satiety so that you end up eating less.
The worst thing to eat first is bread. That will do the opposite — cause a tremendous insulin spike and make you eat even more than you need to.
So get into the habit of first eating a handful of mixed nuts and seeds when you sit down to eat — before anything else.
Stop using salt in your food and you will start to really appreciate various tastes. Your pallet will become much richer for it.
Those cooking instructions that tell you to add a “pinch of salt” to your recipes are very unhealthy, as you get enough sodium from the food you eat and don’t need any additional salt. That pinch of salt just means you are raising your blood pressure a notch, and so welcoming heart issues.
Don’t add a pinch of salt to anything.
How to make a vegetable casserole taste wonderful? Create a cheesy sauce with cashews and nutritional yeast and liquid aminos.
There’s a seat in the grocery store I visit virtually every day, and this seat is across from the bread isle. I sit there and watch the shoppers pick out there bread. The vast majority of these people make terrible choices.
Pretty straight forward what you are looking for in commercial bread. First of all, it needs to be whole grain and not refined flour. Second, you would prefer to have multi-grain, not just wheat. Third, if there is added seeds of any kind, this is a positive, as it adds some protein to the bread, and so make the bread less carb-centric. Finally, you would prefer very little added sugar, preferable no sugar added at all.
Instead, the majority of people pick a bread with refined flour (and so no fiber), with only wheat flour, and lots of added sugar, and no seeds. Duh.
This bread choice, once digested by your system, turns into pure sugar with a tremendous insulin spike. Duh, duh, duh.
The Ezekiel breads are the best commercial breads, and Dave’s are pretty good too, although he does have some added sugar.
Don’t be part of this bread majority.
A vegan restaurant opened on the busy main street in my town. Amazingly healthy and nutritious menu — I was amazed at how good it was. But they lasted only 6 weeks. I hardly saw any customers inside that whole time. Just as I was about to go in and have my first meal there, they closed for good.
A month later, another restaurant there. This one the standard cheesy burger type place with lots of fried foods, probably fried in those terrible seed oils. Place is packed every day. Some days, there’s a line outside to get in.
Tells you everything you need to know about Americans and their eating habits. Americans don’t have a clue about food or nutrition. You can draw the same conclusion looking at their carts at checkout at the supermarket — garbage. No question where heart issues and autoimmune issues and obesity epidemic come from. It’s the food. All preventable.
Processed food is poison is an exaggeration, but not by much. The thought that occurs to me though is that the food industry could actually make very healthy processed foods but they don’t, and I’m not sure why because I would think there would now be a real market for healthy processed foods as more and more of the public have become conscious about what is healthy for them and what isn’t. So one would think a processed food with healthy ingredients without crazy additives would be a real seller.
An interesting question is whether there is any advantage in eating the macronutrients — fat, carbs, protein — in any sequence?
There is a lot of evidence that having fat in one’s meal aids the digestion of various vitamins and minerals. Without the presence of fat, these nutrients are digested, but not as well as they would have been had there been some fat available.
Fat also has no impact at all on insulin, and if you eat a meal that includes some fat, the carbs, which will spike insulin, will spike it much less severely because of the presence of fat. You do want to lower insulin spikes as much as possible.
There is also a good deal of evidence that protein is very satiating, and also slows down digestion because the protein compounds require a lot of work by digestive enzymes to break them down, which is a good thing.
So on balance, eating fat/protein at the start of a meal would appear to be the best strategy, and nothing fills that bill better than a handful of mixed nuts — high in both fat and protein. Perhaps you should start all your major meals with a source of fat/protein like nuts to improve your digestion.
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