What Should I Eat to Lose Weight? Try Real Foods
Eating real whole foods sounds easy right? Think about it though.
If you go shopping for groceries think about how much of the store is devoted to food that has been taken apart and put back together.
Perhaps you could call it reduced food.
You might have heard that to get the quality, healthy foods you need to shop around the edges of the grocery store and avoid the packaged items usually found in the center isle.
There seems to be some truth to that.
You see, the trouble with reduced foods is that our bodies don't always know what to do with them and can't handle them so well.
Where in nature do you find things made from a highly processed, very sweet, sticky syrup somehow extracted from kernels of corn? Or milk from a soybean! Or meat from a soybean for that matter.
To answer the question, "what should i eat to lose weight?" requires a bit more than just saying, "real food" but that is a great start.
Let's look a little deeper.
For a food to be considered "real" perhaps we should specify that it doesn't contain natural defense mechanisms against being eaten.
Or, if it does, they should be easy to overcome.
Think about raspberries for example: they have thorns.
The thorns really aren't that hard to get past though are they.
Then you have access to a juicy berry.
Why don't we eat poison ivy in our salads though? It has a defense mechanism so strong that even touching it can result in pain and an inflamed rash for the unhappily affected skin.
Believe it or not there are some common foods that we all eat that cause similar reactions in your body.
Not always quite so intense but then again not everyone has the same reaction to poison ivy.
Grains are one of these foods.
There are many types of grains but the majority of them contain anti-nutrients that seem specifically intended to make them less likely to be eaten.
These anti-nutrients irritate your digestive system and some actually poke holes in your gut allowing digestive tract contents to seep into the bloodstream and trigger autoimmune responses.
Sounds nasty right? Not only that but grains promote an intense insulin response as the carbohydrate content of the grain spikes blood glucose levels.
If you're familiar with insulin you know elevated insulin levels are not good when it comes to weight loss, not to mention many other things.
We've barely scratched the surface here but now you know one of the key things to learn about when trying to lose weight is to find out what real foods are and remembering that it's usually a food that doesn't try too hard to keep you from eating it by employing natural defence mechanisms.
If you go shopping for groceries think about how much of the store is devoted to food that has been taken apart and put back together.
Perhaps you could call it reduced food.
You might have heard that to get the quality, healthy foods you need to shop around the edges of the grocery store and avoid the packaged items usually found in the center isle.
There seems to be some truth to that.
You see, the trouble with reduced foods is that our bodies don't always know what to do with them and can't handle them so well.
Where in nature do you find things made from a highly processed, very sweet, sticky syrup somehow extracted from kernels of corn? Or milk from a soybean! Or meat from a soybean for that matter.
To answer the question, "what should i eat to lose weight?" requires a bit more than just saying, "real food" but that is a great start.
Let's look a little deeper.
For a food to be considered "real" perhaps we should specify that it doesn't contain natural defense mechanisms against being eaten.
Or, if it does, they should be easy to overcome.
Think about raspberries for example: they have thorns.
The thorns really aren't that hard to get past though are they.
Then you have access to a juicy berry.
Why don't we eat poison ivy in our salads though? It has a defense mechanism so strong that even touching it can result in pain and an inflamed rash for the unhappily affected skin.
Believe it or not there are some common foods that we all eat that cause similar reactions in your body.
Not always quite so intense but then again not everyone has the same reaction to poison ivy.
Grains are one of these foods.
There are many types of grains but the majority of them contain anti-nutrients that seem specifically intended to make them less likely to be eaten.
These anti-nutrients irritate your digestive system and some actually poke holes in your gut allowing digestive tract contents to seep into the bloodstream and trigger autoimmune responses.
Sounds nasty right? Not only that but grains promote an intense insulin response as the carbohydrate content of the grain spikes blood glucose levels.
If you're familiar with insulin you know elevated insulin levels are not good when it comes to weight loss, not to mention many other things.
We've barely scratched the surface here but now you know one of the key things to learn about when trying to lose weight is to find out what real foods are and remembering that it's usually a food that doesn't try too hard to keep you from eating it by employing natural defence mechanisms.
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