When you eat something you crave the taste of, the first bites are the most delicious, but if you eat a lot of it, your taste for is diminishes with each bite, to the point where it actually becomes distasteful. I’m curious to know how this actually works? Can’t seem to find an explanation for it. How is it that your taste buds for what is a delicious food turn against it? Definitely happens. Eat enough chocolate at one sitting and it will become almost repulsive to the point you can’t eat another bite.
Category: Nutrition and eating
Food, Not an Enemy
When you know how to eat for nutrition, food is an ally, not an enemy.
Fat Complexity
There are certain types of saturated fat that are harmful, because they reduce the LDL receptors on the liver, and so cause an increase in blood cholesterol because the HDL returning LDL to the liver to be disposed of can’t get in. This causes a buildup of blood cholesterol in the blood vessels.
On the other hand, there are certain types of saturated fat — like that found in dark chocolate — that don’t have this effect, and so do not pose a threat to promoting clogged arteries.
Sorry, but nutrition is complicated.
Health
The body heals itself if you give it what it needs. Why nutrition is so important.
Nutrition and Health
I don’t think people realize how powerful for health super nutrition really is — partly because so few people do super nutrition. It is kind of an unexplored territory.
Poor nutrition leads to disease — diabetes, heart disease, autoimmune issues, etc. — but super nutrition leads to health, perhaps a very robust and resilient health.
So food can be the devil or an angel — your choice. Most people choose the devil, perhaps from pure ignorance. But for the few who choose the angel, how far can that take you?
New Game in Old Age
How to get to 100?
Recipes
The trick to putting together delicious and nutritious recipes is knowing one’s own particular tastes. Most people have a vague sense of the tastes they like, but if you have a very detailed sense of the tastes that please you, you are in a much better position to put together ingredients in a dish that ultimately will be very pleasing.
For instance, I’ve discovered that I really really like the following: garlic, onion, slight and subtle curry, fennel, sour/sweet combinations, cooked tomato, walnut/almond/pecan, lemon juice on leafy greens, mint, basil, vanilla, chocolate, cinnamon.
Before I got into learning how to cook, I had no idea that these are the tastes that I crave, so that eating various dishes was at best a haphazard experience.
But now, I can use this self-knowledge to create recipes that, generally speaking, will be outstanding from a taste perspective — not because I got this outstanding recipe from a book but because I created a recipe that matches my personal taste profile.
Never Forget
Never forget that all modern “medicine” — pills — are to some degree toxins, foreign to the body, with the potential for a litany of unhealthy outcomes.
Always ask yourself whether this miracle pill is actually a modern version of medieval medicine where they bled people with leeches as the principal “cure”. Yeah, right.
The main cause for all disease — including heart disease and cancer and all the modern autoimmune diseases — is a poor diet; and the only real cure for disease is a healthy, nutritious diet. Food causes the problem but can also fix it.
When you turn to medicine as the cure, you are turning toward voodoo. For instance, look at what they are now saying about the consequences of taking statin drugs or the use of stents in blocked arteries. Both are now thought to be equivalent to the medieval bleed with leeches — AGAIN!
Don’t trust “miracle” medicine; trust healthy whole food. Hippocrates understood this 2400 years ago.
Weight Loss Tricks
Having a very low-fat diet helps because it generally translates into a lower-calorie diet.
Bumping up the amount of protein in your diet helps because the body burns much more calories in digesting protein than it does digesting carbohydrates or fats.
Eating a whole-foods, plant-based diet helps because the body requires a certain level of nutrition, and so if your diet is highly nutritious, the body will be satisfied with fewer calories.
All these are subtle strategies to facilitate losing weight.
Diet in Old Age
Avoid processed foods entirely. 65% in carbohydrates with high fiber and whole foods. Choose your fat in your low-fat diet carefully with high amounts of monounsaturated and Omega 3 fats, particularly EPD and DHA. Boost your protein to 20% minimum, as protein digestion is not as good in old age, and there is significant muscle loss.
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