Ideas on How to Eat Healthy, Anti-aging and Lose Weight
I love food and I love to cook for people. I also like to eat, but in the past I was prone to enjoying food in a way that was not a part of the "true me" and that is where the poor dietary choices are made in everyone's life. When one loses a sense of the "true self" one makes choices that seem out of character later. In order to keep it brief I will briefly make some points that hopefully others can take to even higher ground on their own.
in the early history of mankind food was hard to come by. You had to expel calories just to forage for food. Driving to the store is not the same.
Getting enough fat in one's diet was a difficult thing to do until the 1960's. in the 1800's in England a favorite way to get fat was to pour all rendered fat from cooking into a crock jar and dip bread in it, Fat is in everything we eat today.
Most of us were designed to be active all day as opposed to sitting at a desk. our metabolisms are geared for storing fat during harvest time to be used to survive during lean winter times. Now there are no lean winter times, Just lots of food all year round.
Foods used to be available seasonally. Now there are no seasons, We can eat what ever we want whenever we want.
We used to have more bitter foods in our diet like leafy green vegetables. Now we predominantly eat sweet and salty foods. Bitter foods satisfy the body's needs and improve our digestion making us healthier.
Our hormone balance depends on one's activity levels. Serotonin controls moods, libido, gut function and sleep patterns. It is profoundly affected by our activity levels. If we are more sedentary we will have lower levels of serotonin. If one exercises it will actually change your food preferences by changing your hormonal balance. The more you exercise the healthier your food choices. Remember serotonin levels decrease naturally after age 40 so supplementation with 5-htp can help with this.
Your lean muscle/fat deposition balance depends on your IgF1 or insulin growth factor 1 levels. This is the major component of human growth hormone. This also decreases with age but can be increased by taking certain amino acids after a vigorous workout.
Hope this sheds some light on diet and health. Its just not one problem one solution. Knowledge can help ease the frustration levels and enable better solutions towards healthy living.
in the early history of mankind food was hard to come by. You had to expel calories just to forage for food. Driving to the store is not the same.
Getting enough fat in one's diet was a difficult thing to do until the 1960's. in the 1800's in England a favorite way to get fat was to pour all rendered fat from cooking into a crock jar and dip bread in it, Fat is in everything we eat today.
Most of us were designed to be active all day as opposed to sitting at a desk. our metabolisms are geared for storing fat during harvest time to be used to survive during lean winter times. Now there are no lean winter times, Just lots of food all year round.
Foods used to be available seasonally. Now there are no seasons, We can eat what ever we want whenever we want.
We used to have more bitter foods in our diet like leafy green vegetables. Now we predominantly eat sweet and salty foods. Bitter foods satisfy the body's needs and improve our digestion making us healthier.
Our hormone balance depends on one's activity levels. Serotonin controls moods, libido, gut function and sleep patterns. It is profoundly affected by our activity levels. If we are more sedentary we will have lower levels of serotonin. If one exercises it will actually change your food preferences by changing your hormonal balance. The more you exercise the healthier your food choices. Remember serotonin levels decrease naturally after age 40 so supplementation with 5-htp can help with this.
Your lean muscle/fat deposition balance depends on your IgF1 or insulin growth factor 1 levels. This is the major component of human growth hormone. This also decreases with age but can be increased by taking certain amino acids after a vigorous workout.
Hope this sheds some light on diet and health. Its just not one problem one solution. Knowledge can help ease the frustration levels and enable better solutions towards healthy living.
posted by Dr Frank Ervolino | 11:46 PM
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