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Calorie Consumption Decreases, Yet Weight Increases? & LHBI

May 2, 2013 / / Comments Off on Calorie Consumption Decreases, Yet Weight Increases? & LHBI
How’s the RWF effort going?  Reading labels a little more?

I’ve got some interesting statistics today.  The CDC (Centers for Disease Control) put out a report in February, 2013, that states that between 2000 and 2010, Americans total calorie consumption declined, yet American’s weight increased.

Some Visual:

In 1980, 46% of all Americans were overweight.
In 2000, 62% of all Americans were overweight.
In 2012, 70% of all Americans were overweight.

More Visual:

In 1992, Americans spent 30 Billion a year on Diet Products.
In 2007, Americans spent 60 Billion a year on Diet Products.
In 2010, Americans spent 70 Billion a year on Diet Products.

Americans are eating significantly less Red Meat, Dairy, and Whole Milk than in 1950.  The CDC, and the AJCN (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition), who had much comment on the CDC report, are both confused.  They hold strongly to a “calories in, calories out” paradigm;  or should I say, “calories in, calories out” fantasy.
70% of the Food Americans Eat Is Processed and Refined.  That’s a lot of Chemicals, Refined Carbs/Sugars, and Hydrogenated Oils. Diet Foods are 100% processed and refined.chips ahoy

These foods make our body sick, depressed, fat, broken, and hungry.

Here’s an ingredient list from Chips Ahoy Reduced Fat Cookies:

Doesn’t look like the ingredients on the back of the chocolate chip bag, does it. Seven sources of refined carbs, which stimulate Insulin production (the Fat Storage hormone), Soy ( phytoestroten, thyroid slowing, gut disrupting), partially hydrogenated oils (inflammatory and cell disrupting), MSG/flavors(neurotoxin), and Caramel Color.

Here’s the scoop on Caramel Color:  The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has been petitioning the FDA for years to get caramel color out of the food supply.  Both Coke and Pepsi took it out of their products last year when the CSPI published reports showing that it could cause Thyroid and Liver Cancer, and Leukemia.  The FDA is investigating….

If you want to lose weight, get healthy, and feel good mentally, you’ve got to get off the processed foods.  There’s just not one redeeming quality about them.  Whether they’re diet or non-diet, they make you sick, fat, broken, and hungry. Eat Real Whole Foods.

Category: Food Additives, Looks Healthy But Isn't /

Change The Way You Think About Food and Skinny Cow

April 28, 2013 / / Comments Off on Change The Way You Think About Food and Skinny Cow

skinny cow ice creamDo you need to lose weight or get healthy? Because if you do, you need to make a  big, permanent mental transformation in the way you think about food. If you’ve been viewing food in terms of calories and fat, you’re on the Diet Ferris Wheel: trying to eat low cal, starving, overeating, trying to eat low cal, starving, overeating.  Low calorie diet foods, or low fat meals leave you hungry and unsatisfied.  Those kinds of meals are usually full of easy to digest, processed, refined carbs that get digested and leave your stomach very quickly.  The result: True Hunger.  If you’re eating processed/refined foods, those foods are created and designed to Make You Hungry Again Soon.Do you know what “Bliss Point” is?  It’s a term in Food Science that means a high level of Pleasure Neurons are stimulated, but Satiety is NOT stimulated (satiety comes from particular hormone signals). This isn’t a joke.

Food products are tested over and over with hundreds of subjects submitting to very technical tests to exactly determine what formula induces the highest Bliss Point.  That’s why you can’t get enough soda, crackers, frozen pizza, donuts, granola bars, etc.  These foods were created to stimulate your hunger; not satisfy your hunger.  The Snickers commercials about Snickers satisfying???  Snickers TRIGGERS the desire for more sugar or more food.This leads me to something I get asked about often: should you abstain, or can you eat junk food, or any trigger food, in Moderation?  Answer that question honestly for yourself.  Some people can’t do moderation.  They just get way too overstimulated from certain foods.  Sometimes even the THOUGHT of trigger foods sets off stimulation. (That’s why it’s smart to keep trigger foods OUT OF YOUR HOUSE OR IMMEDIATE WORK ENVIRONMENT.  Those things can call to you!) If that’s you, just be honest with yourself. If you can be truly moderate, as in a bite here or there because you’re being polite, or it’s a special occasion, be moderate.

Here’s some shocking information: Processed, refined food consumption increases every year. 70% of the foods Americans eat is Processed;  Diet Product consumption is up,  American’s total Calorie Consumption is DOWN, American’s weight continues to go UP (70% of all Americans are Overweight). Let’s just use common sense to connect these dots. Here’s a little example of a Processed Diet food, promoted to make you slim: Skinny Cow Milk Chocolate Dreamy Clusters. Skinny Cow junk foods have done an incredible job grabbing some market share as they’ve convinced lots of us that by eating their products, you can lose the pounds but keep the indulgence. Their ingredient list is protected, so I couldn’t copy it, but here’s the breakdown:  11 sources of refined carb/artificial sugar/real sugar = Insulin Up/Fat Storage increased; 3 sources of soy lecithin(allergenic, thyroid disruptor, phyto-estrogen); carrageen (major gut irritant/damager); and caramel color (carcinogen).

Your liver has to break down these chemicals, and it’s not easy.  So let’s add “liver clogger” to the list. (I’m pretty sure that’s a medical term!) Your liver is the majority of your Metabolism.  Clogged Livers = Slow Metabolism.

Does this sound like a good product to use if you want to get healthy or lose weight???  Plan, shop, chop, prep, cook in giant batches; if you want to indulge, at least make sure it’s homemade. Forget about the calories, worry about the ingredients.

Looking for recipes?  Visit these sites:  CivilizedCaveman.com, OMGPaleo.com, EverydayPaleo.com, ThePaleoMom.com, TheFoodLoversKitchen, AllDayIDreamAboutFood.com. The recipe sites are endless- you’ll never need another cookbook again unless you just like cookbooks.And last, as we get to Farmers Market Season, here’s a great website to find Farmers Markets, Co-ops, Cow Shares, and local farmers selling local products near you, visit www.localharvest.org.

Category: Food Additives, Looks Healthy But Isn't, Psychology of Eating /

Habit Eating & Looks Healthy But Isn’t (LHBI)

April 18, 2013 / / Comments Off on Habit Eating & Looks Healthy But Isn’t (LHBI)

LHBI – Looks Healthy But Isn’t!  I just made that up!
Food is a tricky thing.  You can have all the knowledge in the world, all the desire to eat healthy and feel good, maybe even have serious dis-satisfaction with your body, your energy levels, or your health, and still find it difficult to maintain positive eating habits.  That’s because “old habits die hard”.  Seriously.  Think about your worst food habits, there’s always a pattern:

  • binging after dinner
  • munching on snacks at the office
  • starving in the middle of the afternoon
  • eating off your kids plates
  • evening wine and crackers
  • too many beers after work
  • scheduled stops Starbucks/Panera/anywhere you can buy a snack and drink

There’s not a lot of original, different “bad habits”.   I’ve been surveying this in nutrition groups I’ve led and when I ask “what’s your worst eating habit”, its just a small handful of answers over and over. And that’s a good thing, because identifying your bad habits is the first step to changing them. I’m going to do a group in May on habits and eating patterns.

For now, realize that you really really do have control over what you put in your mouth.  Make a plan, shop, schedule your cooking/prepping/packing time just like you schedule everything else.  Don’t even allow the thought that you’re too busy enter your mind.  Everyone has the same amount of time.  The busiest people tend to get the most things done because they live by their lists.  Make your health a priority.   You really do have control over what you put in your mouth, you just have to exercise that control.  That said, here’s another “looks healthy but isn’t” break down.

I LOVE Seaweed Salad, and I was so excited when I first saw it at Wegmans.  What sounds more healthy than Seaweed?   (If you want to improve THYROID function, you should incorporate kelp/seaweed into your diet), but then I took a look at the ingredient list, along with seaweed: sugar,  disodium inosinate,  disodium guanylate, yellow #5, and blue#1.  5 ingredients with serious side effects.  Disodium inosinate and Disodium guanylate both often contain MSG, but even without MSG, they have this side-effect list:  headaches and migraines, seaweed saladweakness, sweating, nausea, and flushing.  We went over blue #1, the other day, but here’s the info on yellow #5:  banned in Austria, Norway, and much of Europe;  side effects are allergies, skin reactions, asthma attacks, broncho-constriction, blurred vision, migraines, anxiety, and cancer.

If you’ve been following along for the past month, and have had the opportunity to read the side effects of food additives in common, healthy seeming, convenient, processed, foods,  are you making the connection between these side effects and your health, weight, and mood, or your child’s health, weight, and mood?    Anyone on medication for headaches, migraines, nausea, anxiety?…..What if you just changed your foods. These side effects are very, very real. These additives cause serious damage to our bodies and our minds.

Cook and eat Real Whole Foods.  Know what you’re putting in your body because you build your health, or tear down your health, with each meal.

Category: Looks Healthy But Isn't, Psychology of Eating /

Question about Butter..

April 18, 2013 / / Comments Off on Question about Butter..

Debbie – I don’t know if you have time to answer emails, as you probably get a ton of questions.  Right now I am using Smart Balance Light Butter & Canola Oil Blend (spreadable).  Fat content:

Total – 5g

Saturated – 2gbutter mad at margarine

Trans – 0

Polyunsaturated – 1g

Monounsaturated – 2.5g

Ingredients (in order) are water, butter, canola oil, 2% buttermilk powder, fish oil, plant sterols, salt, lactic acid, distilled monoglycerides, natural flavor, pectin, PGPR, potassium sorbate, vitamin A palmitate, beta carotene color

I am wondering if this is a good choice for me (it contains polyunsaturated fat).  I have  high cholesterol.

It looks good because the fat content is low ( and we’ve been led to believe that important);  also, the Canola Oil Lobby has done an incredible job promoting their product as healthy.  I don’t think it is and here’s why:   Canola Oil is an Omega 6 oil, that means it’s “poly-unsaturated”.  Our body needs PUFAs (polyunsaturated fatty acids), that’s what Omega 3s are.  But of all the oils, their chemical structure is the most UNSTABLE.  This matters.  Unstable fats are 100% prone to damage in the presence of heat and light and oxygen (unlike Saturated fat, which is HIGHLY stable).  The body will use damaged fats to build cell walls and cell membranes if we eat them.  Imagine building a brick building with rocks from the drive way and trying to make it work.  Is that a good picture?

The ONLY way to “expel” the oil from the seed of the canola (actually the plant is called RapeSeed,  they call the oil Canola to make it sound more pleasant), is ….thru heat. Period.  So when it gets to the bottle, it’s already damaged.  If you’re cooking with it, you’re damaging it even more.
But let’s look at the rest of the ingredients in the artificial butter-like spread product.

Buttermilk powder:  When you see this, or skim milk powder, which legally does NOT have to be identified when added to milk products,  know that it’s Oxidized.  Oxidized Fats are super, super bad for us.  They damage artery walls.  Talk about skyrocketing LDL levels.
Distilled Monoglycerides:  This is fascinating.  Mono and Di-glycerides are Hydrogenated Palm Oil.  As in , it’s a Hydrogenated Fat. (bad bad bad).  But when the chemists who discovered how to do it went for their patent, they applied for it as an EMULSIFIER, not as a Hydrogenated Fat.  So when you see mono and diglycerides on the ingredient label, they do NOT have to be included in the fat identification.  Ugh.  Thank you FDA.
Natural Flavor:  Read MSG and a TON of chemicals  (how else do you make butter flavor out of thin air?)
PGPR:  An emulsifier from castor beans usually used to make cheaper chocolates thin and viscous.  Moussalini force fed this to prisoners to give them dirrehea and stomach problems to make them talk.  I guess food scientists are just always keeping their ear to the ground for inventive ways to use neat products.
Potassium Sorbate:  This has a GRAS (generally recognized as safe) status, because the FDA says we would only see side effects (nausea and migraines) with long term use.  hmmmm.   What the heck do they consider “long term use”?

Go back and look at the ingredient list for Butter, (that’s a trick question, as it just real butter just contains cream).   Compare that to this “healthy, low fat, butter substitute”.

And finally, to partially address the “I have high cholesterol” and since this contains PUFAs, it must be good, right?
Read this:  There is NO Good Scientific Link Between Healthy Saturated Fats and High Cholesterol.    Cholesterol is going to be another email unto it’s self, so I’ll just point you in a couple of directions if you’re really interested:  go on WheatBelly.com, and ChrisKressler.com  and put cholesterol into their search bar.  Look at the research instead of listening to marketing via pharmaceutical makers.

Back to this product and cholesterol.  There’s damaged, oxidized buttermilk that raises cholesterol, there’s damaged PUFAs that raise cholesterol, and there’s chemicals that go thru the body and cause damage, and that raises cholesterol.
Cholesterol is used by the body as a healing substance.  Seriously.  God did not make a giant mistake when He designed our bodies so that almost EVERY SINGLE CELL we have produces cholesterol.  And the liver produces tons.  Where there is INFLAMMATION, from Insulin, from Sugar, from Chemicals, and from Damaged Fats, the liver sends CHOLESTEROL to patch or fix it.  ……  Reread that last paragraph.

You want lower cholesterol?  Quit eating sugar and processed carbs, quit eating chemicals, and quit eating bad fats.
Want to lose weight?  Quit eating sugar and processed carbs, quit eating chemicals, and quit eating bad fats.
Want to get healthy?  Quit eating sugar and processed carbs, quit eating chemicals, and quit eating bad fats.
Eat Real Whole Foods.

Category: Fats, Looks Healthy But Isn't /

LHBI Chicken, and Healthy Chicken

April 18, 2013 / / Comments Off on LHBI Chicken, and Healthy Chicken

****<strong>The average American’s diet consists of 70% processed food. ******  70% of all American’s are overweight.  Hmmm.

Let’s do a LHBI (looks healthy but isn’t) Chicken:)
Perdue Chicken Breast Meat Nuggets:  
Chicken Boneless Breast Meat With Rib Meat, Water, Potassium Lactate, Sodium Lactate, Salt,Sodium Phosphate, Sodium Diacetate, Flavoring, Breading :, Wheat Flour Bleached, Water,Wheat Flour Bleached Enriched (Enriched With Niacin, Iron Reduced, Thiamine Mononitrate (Vitamin B1), Riboflavin (Vitamin B2), Folic Acid (Vitamin aB)) , Corn Flour Yellow, Corn Meal Yellow, Dextrose, Whey Dried, Salt, Sugar, Yeast, Leavening (Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate,Sodium Bicarbonate) , Potassium Sorbate, Spice(s), Soybean(s) Oil, Calcium Propionate, Guar Gum, Flavoring, Paprika Extractives color(s), Spice(s) Extractive

Note the sugar sources in the breading, and the chemicals up top, right after chicken meat. funny-chicken-cook-me-like-one-of-your-french-fries-540x434  Here’s a little info on them:  Sodium Phosphate has laxative properties, and is the main ingredient in several enemas, including Fleet brand.  Sodium Diacetate, which gives “a distinct vinegar flavor”  is listed as contraindicated for pregnant women, possibly causing renal issues (kidney) and fluid retention.  Also note the “Flavoring” ingredient, because that means MSG.  Here’s a product we feed to our children, and it can cause headaches and behavior issues (MSG) and kidney/fluid issues.

Here’s the Panera Chicken Salad sandwich on Artisian Sesame Semolina (sounds fancy) :Sesame Semolina Bread (Flour Enriched Durum and, Semolina Flour [Wheat Flour, Niacin, Iron,Thiamine Mononitrate (Vitamin B1), Folic Acid (Vitamin aB)] , Water, Flour Unbleached [Wheat Flour, Barley Malted Flour] , Sesame Seed(s), Salt) , Chicken Salad (Chicken [Water, Food Starch Modified, Salt, Chicken Fat, Flavor(s) Chicken] , Dextrose, Corn Starch, Flavor(s),Sodium Phosphate, Mayonnaise [Water, Soybean(s) Oil, Vinegar, Food Starch Modified, Egg(s) Yolks, Egg(s) Whole, Corn Syrup, Spice(s), Salt, Calcium Disodium EDTA, Potassium Sorbate Preservative, Sodium Benzoate, Xanthan Gum, Propylene Glycol Alginate] , Celery, Lemon(s) Juice, Onion(s) Powder, Garlic Powder, Parsley, Pepper(s) White) , Tomato(es), Onion(s),Lettuce, Mayonnaise (Soybean(s) Oil, Canola Oil, Egg(s) Yolks, Vinegar, Corn Syrup, Water,Salt, Spice(s), Calcium Disodium EDTA To Protect Flavor) , Mustard, Alfalfa Sprouts, Salt,Pepper(s)

We’re covered a lot of these chemicals, but with over 3,000 chemicals approved for our food supply, we haven’t even scratched the surface.  Here’s some info.   Propylene Glycol Alginate, which is approved for both food and several industrial uses, like automotive anti-freeze and runway de-icer, can have harmful effects “on fetus of any age”, and is contraindicated for people on liver and kidney medications.    It’s also used as the:  “killing and preserving agent in pitfall traps, usually used to capture ground beetles” [10].
Add this to multiple sources of sugar, MSG,  and  Calcium Disodium EDTA (remember that one?).  There’s also Sodium Benzoate (allergic reactions, hives, asthma), and I have to point out that the actual chicken is literally flavored with “..Flavors, Chicken”.  Huh??  Chicken flavor – which is a chemical concoction that tastes like chicken, is added to the chicken.

Here’s the ingredients in Chick Fil A Classic Chicken Sandwich: Chicken (100% natural whole breast filet, seasoning [salt, monosodium glutamate, sugar, spices, paprika], seasoned coater [enriched bleached flour {bleached wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid}, sugar, salt, monosodium glutamate, nonfat milk, leavening {baking soda, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate}, spice, soybean oil, color {paprika}], milk wash [water, whole powdered egg and nonfat milk solids], peanut oil [fully refined peanut oil with TBHQ and citric acid added to preserve freshness and dimethylpolysiloxane an anti-foaming agent added]), bun (enriched flour [wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate {Vitamin B1}, riboflavin {Vitamin B2}, folic acid], water, high fructose corn syrup, yeast, contains 2% or less of each of the following: liquid yeast, soybean oil, nonfat milk, salt, wheat gluten, soy flour, dough conditioners [may contain one or more of the following: mono- and diglycerides, calcium and sodium stearoyl lactylates, calcium peroxide], soy flour, amylase, yeast nutrients [monocalcium phosphate, calcium sulfate, ammonium sulfate], calcium propionate added to retard spoilage, soy lecithin, cornstarch, butter oil [soybean oil, palm kernel oil, soy lecithin, natural and artificial flavor, TBHQ and citric acid added as preservatives, and artificial color]), pickle (cucumbers, water, vinegar, salt, lactic acid, calcium chloride, alum, sodium benzoate and potassium sorbate [preservatives], natural flavors, polysorbate 80, yellow 5, blue 1).

Wow, I hesitated even printing that entire list.  I’m afraid I’ll lose you.  Be assured that this list is very similar to every other fast food list.

What about rotisserie chickens, from the grocery store?  They look real, and you can see them actually turning in the Rotisserie ovens.  Here’s the Costco facts.
Ingredients: whole chicken, water, salt, sodium phosphates, modified food starch, sugar, carrageenan, soy lecithin, flavorings, xanthan gum.
Again, this was very similar to every other grocery store list I looked at.  Apparently, they’re injected with solution before they leave the chicken processing factory.

How bout this:  buy and cook your own chicken!  It’s delicious and nutritious, an excellent source of protein, and even a great source of fatty acids.  Chicken fat is mostly Monounsaturated, and composed of Palmitic Acid, which is highly anti-microbial.  That’s what gives chicken soup actual healing properties.  Buy and cook “bone-in”, and you’ll have minerals, glucosamine, msm, collagen, and more goodies leach into the meat.    And cooking chicken is simple!  Just roast in the oven, with S&P, or boil in water and shred.

What you eat affects your health, your mood, and your weight.  What you feed your kids affects their health, their mood and their weight.  Choose RWFs.

Category: Fats, Looks Healthy But Isn't /

LHBI Salad Dressings

April 18, 2013 / / Comments Off on LHBI Salad Dressings

THIS IS A POST FROM 30 DAYS OF REAL WHOLE FOOD CHALLENGE

How’s the journey to health, wellness, and Real Whole Food?  Remember, it’s Awareness not Perfection that we’re aiming for here.  No getting discouraged over self-inflicted negative thoughts.  Changing habits is NOT easy, it takes a while; but it’s completely do-able.

Today’s LHBI food is Salad Dressings.  Have you looked at those ingredient lists??? Gross!  So gordon ramsey salad yellingwhat do we put on all our delicious salads?  And why do we need to put anything on a salad at all? Because we want the Nutrients from the foods.    Several nutrients, like vitamin A, D, E, and K, and all the minerals (calcium, magnesium, etc), only get absorbed IN THE PRESENCE OF FAT.    Protein is better absorbed in the presence of fat.  Fat isn’t just an energy source.  Fat has hundreds of functions in our body. ( Remember that water is our bodies biggest component, and then protein and fat are the next 2 biggest components, then minerals, vitamins, and carbohydrates,which make up about 2% of us).

Back to Salad Dressings.  Let’s look at Kraft Ranch:  Ingredients: WATER, SOYBEAN OIL, VINEGAR, SUGAR, SALT, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF EGG YOLKS, WHEY (FROM MILK), MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, GARLIC JUICE, BUTTERMILK, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, XANTHAN GUM, PHOSPHORIC ACID, POLYSORBATE 60, SPICE, ARTIFICIAL COLOR, TARTARIC ACID, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, SORBIC ACID AND CALCIUM DISODIUM EDTA (TO PROTECT FLAVOR). CONTAINS: EGG, MILK.

Here’s a Girards:  Ingredients:SOYBEAN OIL, WATER, CORN-CIDER VINEGAR, PARMESAN CHEESE (PART-SKIM MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES), EGG YOLK, SALT, SUGAR, SPICES, ANCHOVIES, CITRIC ACID, GARLIC*, LEMON JUICE CONCENTRATE, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, XANTHAN GUM, SOY FLOUR, MALTODEXTRIN, ONION*, POLYSORBATE 60, SODIUM BENZOATE ADDED AS PRESERVATIVE, NATURAL FLAVORS, MOLASSES, CARAMEL COLOR, CALCIUM DISODIUM EDTA ADDED TO PROTECT FLAVOR, TAMARIND, DISODIUM INOSINATE, DISODIUM GUANYLATE.

Whether you go Full Fat, Low Fat, or Fat Free, commercial salad dressings are a health disaster.   What to do ?  Make your own!  You could always use a good Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Vinegar.  Have you seen the new fruit vinegars in the stores now?  Delicious!  Or you could make one of a million great dressing recipes out there.

I looked at ingredient lists of several different salad dressings.  Calcium Disodium EDTA was in almost every one.  It’s used as a preservative in food,  and a chelator in medicine.  Chelation means “removes metals” – and MINERALS.  So, when this is added to our SALADS ( a very nutrient dense group of foods) , it leaches on to minerals and causes them to be expelled.   The FDA also says it causes malabsorption of Vit C and several B vitamins.  When it’s used in Chelation Therapy, the FDA requires Vitamin Infusions .  Hmmm. Other side effects include allergic reactions; dangerously low blood sugar, blood pressure, or blood calcium levels; kidney failure and seizures. According to the FDA, 11 patients died from calcium disodium EDTA use between 1971 and 2007.

Oh, and here’s something interesting:
Calcium disodium EDTA should not be given with ceftriaxone, also known as Rocephin, according to Drugs.com. Ceftriaxone is a cephalosporin antibiotic used to treat bacterial infections. When combined, ceftriaxone reacts with calcium disodium EDTA to produce calcium crystals in the lungs and kidneys, which can be life threatening. The calcium disodium EDTA may also result in the body absorbing more ceftriaxone than it should, which reduces the efficacy of the antibiotic in destroying bacteria.

OMGosh.  Why is this stuff allowed in our food?   Read your labels!  Know what you’re putting in your body!  Here again we’re seeing side effects that are common symptoms that people go to the doctor for.  What if you need to change your food as opposed to taking pharmacuticals?

What to use instead of commercial salad dressings? A good oil and vinegar are the quickest go-to, but if you want something else, Ranch, French, Buttermilk,  make your own! They’re easy and they’re quick. Good place to start: google www.marksdailyapple.com , salad dressings.  Great Recipes!

Category: Looks Healthy But Isn't /

Change Your Body By Changing Your Thoughts, and a LHBI

April 18, 2013 / / Comments Off on Change Your Body By Changing Your Thoughts, and a LHBI

You really can’t change your body without changing your thoughts. If your thoughts about food have been dominated by Calories and Fat Grams, then you’ve probably either been in a yo-yo weight pattern, or a gaining pattern, or you’re always hungry. Because thinking of food in terms of Calories and Fat is NEVER a winning, healthy, long term strategy. (70% of Americans are overweight, and Diet Foods are a Multi-Billion Dollar Industry.)
It’s the INGREDIENTS in our food, and the amount of SUGAR/CARBOHYDRATES that have the biggest impact on your hormones, your mood, your willpower, and your hunger. Here’s what I mean.

juice bottlesLook at Odwalla Juices, which you’ll find in the healthy section of your grocery store.
Wow, their Website looks Natural!! They’ve got soft colors, what looks to be hand-drawn leaves and flowers, and you can even help them Plant Trees for the Environment. You have to keep their juices refrigerated, and they have little “gluten free” signs on their bottles. Surely this would be a healthy food for you or your kids? A Real Whole Food??
I pulled out 10 different product lists, some of which had 16 ingredients, and they all contain HUGE amounts of carbohydrate. 43 grams/bottle, 30 grams/bottle, 28 grams/bottle, and so on.

All Carbs Become Sugar/Glucose In the Body. Period. Always. Carbs are Sugar/Glucose. So under the Carbohydrate line in the ingredient list, where it has a sub catagory for sugar, DISREGARD that line. It’s deceiving. All Carbs Become Sugar In the Body.
4 grams of Carbohydate equals 1 Teaspoon of sugar. Our body can handle about 2 teaspsoons of Sugar in the Blood before the pancreas has to spit out Insulin and do Damage Control.
I’ll go into this further later, but for now know this: All Excess Sugar/Carb/Blood Glucose gets remade into Triglycerides and deposited in the midriff area. Plus, this amount of sugar leads to a blood sugar high, and a blood sugar drop.
High Blood Sugar and High Insulin do a lot of damage to every area of the body: your brain, your organs, your hormones, your extremities, your eyes, your arteries.
Lots more on Blood Sugar later.
Let’s examine a FEW of the many ingredients on the ingredient lists. Soy Protein, and Soy Protein Isolate: soy is usually GMO and always a Phytoestrogen, – no one needs phytoestrogens!!! Not males, and not females. Think excess female hormones, thyroid problems, and cancer. “Invert Cane Sugar” is on several lists, that’s just Sugar. Tricalcium phosphate is on several lists, which is listed on the Hazaradous Chemical Data base as having possible side effects of irritation to the skin, eyes, lungs, and gastrointestional tract. There’s also plenty of “added” vitamins. If they’re ADDED, they’ve usually been synthesized in a factory. As opposed to Real Vitamins and Minerals and PhytoNutrients that are Naturally contained within Real Whole Foods. The ability of the body to absorb and use Real nutrients as opposed to Synthetic nutrients is very different.
The bottom line is, if you want some fruit, grab an apple or a banana, or some strawberries.
Let’s go back to my subject line: you can’t make a physical change without making a mental change. If you’ve been struggling with your weight or your health, and thinking of food in terms of just calories and fat, it’s kept you in your holding pattern. Thinking of food in terms of Real, and Whole, and Nutrients will make you Healthy. Leanness is a Side Effect of being Healthy.

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