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Category: Nutrition and eating
Food Order
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.
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.
Best Ever
If you know what you are doing nutritionally and do your own cooking, you can create a diet that is the best ever for your health. Literally, a territory that has never before been explored. Like the Star Trek line: “Where no man has gone before.” An adventure in better health.
Fork
Your health is at the end of your fork.
Bored
Do you eat because you are bored?
No-Brainer Supplements
Resveratrol, sulforaphane, turmeric, milk thistle, garlic, magnesium, chlorella, glutathione.
Resveratrol because of its intense antioxidants and because it is linked to longevity — a longer life span, probably because of the antioxidants.
Sulforaphane because of its proven ability to fight cancer cells. The pharmaceutical industry has poured billions into the study of sulforaphane for this very reason.
Turmeric because of its proven ability to suppress chronic inflammation, which is so common.
Milk thistle because of its proven benefit to promote the health of the liver. You are only as healthy as your liver.
Garlic because of its proven antiviral impact.
Magnesium because of its proven ability to create calmness — a natural sedative.
Chlorella because of its unique mineral content from the sea.
Glutathione is the body’s main antioxidant — the body produces its own glutathione to suppress oxidative stress, but you can also buy it as a supplement in order to boost this defense against cancer and inflammation.
For those people who say that supplements are useless, I say nonsense.
Food Choices
People don’t realize how decisive food is in terms of promoting either stellar health or horrible disease.
If you are very selective in giving your body truly superior nutrition, chances are that you will experience great health, high energy, and a long life.
On the other hand, if you have a diet with poor nutrition, particularly if your diet includes a high percentage of processed foods with all their crazy ingredients that the body doesn’t know how to digest and many of which are carcinogenic, chances are you are opening the door to a wide spectrum of diseases and a much shorter life span.
All this because of your food choices. So take food choices more seriously. They matter.
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