Healthy eating - food for life - 6 simple rules

Healthy eating - food for life - 6 simple rules

Finding healthy food, eating it, and living a long life is not science fiction. However, it is science. Everyone tries to give you advice on how to eat right, but the simple fact is that almost no one understands what happens in your body when you buy and eat healthy foods. Details on this topic are available to those who need to know. For those of you who want the simple rules without any fluff or details, read on.

1) Eat whole foods. People say “whole foods” all the time, but no one stops to think about what healthy eating means. This means eating foods that have not been grown in a laboratory and not taken apart and reassembled. So no dehydrated-rehydrated potatoes, no homogenized milk, no flour, no sugar and absolutely no corn syrup, high fructose or anything else.

2) Eat foods as close to their natural state as possible. This sounds a lot like “eat whole foods,” but it’s a supplementary rule. Not only should your food be whole, but it should also be fresh and cooked as little as possible. For millions of years, humans ate what they hunted and gathered without the benefit of ovens and ovens, let alone food processors and blenders. Evolution hasn't had a chance to catch up with modern devices: we still digest food the way our ancestors did. This doesn't mean "don't chop your red peppers" or "don't eat cheese because it's not raw milk." These are still healthy foods; eating them is okay. Just eat your vegetables barely steamed or your meat almost too raw. Your body will get so much more out of them that you will feel the difference.

3) Don't eat anything you can't buy. That means if you can't buy a bag of pure sodium erythorbate or a pinch of hydroxypropylmethelcellulose, you shouldn't eat anything that contains these ingredients. It's not healthy. Food should fill you up with ingredients created by nature, not a lab.

4) There are only 2 food groups: things that move and things that grow. In other words, if it's not obviously a plant or obviously an animal, don't eat it. You should try to eat roughly equal amounts of each of the two food groups, and each has an additional rule to keep in mind:

5) From the “things that move” food group, you should aim to get approximately equal amounts of fat and protein. This is in direct contradiction to today's "Fat-is-Bad" propaganda, but is demonstrably true.

6) From the “things that grow” group, consciously eat as many different colors of plants as possible every day. Veggie colors form due to various substances in the plant; Each substance represents a group of nutrients. Your body gets nutrients from meat, but not as much as from fresh fruits and vegetables. Therefore, it is important to maintain diversity. You don't want to overload on some nutrients and leave out others, that's not a healthy diet.

These rules are easy to read but difficult to follow. It helps so much understanding food in a way that makes your body love you. Many factors, from societal to chemical, conspire to push you toward a high-carb, highly processed American diet—but that leaves the American midlife plagued with diabetes, heart problems, infertility and impotence, and even cancer. Eating healthy can keep you alive and feeling great.