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95% Do This
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.
Americans and Food
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.
Poison?
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.
Food Order
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.
Processed Foods
What you have to realize is that about 85% of what you find in your local supermarket, even the better supermarkets, is processed foods, which can actually be dangerous to your health. Yes, actually dangerous. And extremely low in real nutrients, including fiber.
You need to wean yourself off of eating processed food for the majority of what you eat, and move toward eating real food, which of course is high in nutrients. Start to think of the supermarket as a landmine where you have to step very carefully because that is what it is relative to your health — a landmine.
When you make this sharp change in your diet — a majority of real food instead of a majority of processed food — you will feel much better and have much more energy because the mitochondria in your cells will be more efficient in producing ATP, the form of energy the body can actually use. And your overall health will improve significantly in a variety of ways.
Fork
Your health is at the end of your fork.
Improving Health
If you want to quantumly improve your health, just stop eating all processed foods.
Pretty simple. If it didn’t actually grow out of the ground, don’t eat it. If it came in a box, don’t eat it. If it has more ingredients than one, don’t eat it.
Protein
Most people eat too much protein. A fairly large percentage of the population eats twice as much as necessary.
The food industry is constantly pushing extra protein in their processed foods, but this is quite unnecessary for the majority of people. And excessive protein in one’s diet can have very serious health consequences, including kidney stones.
Don’t believe the hype about protein from the food industry. More nonsense.
“Food” Poison
The government allows the food industry to do whatever it wants. Reason why we get so many really crazy non-food ingredients in processed foods.
You are really taking your life in your hand if you eat processed foods.
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