At 3pm, what are you reaching for to keep those hunger bugs away until dinner? It is very important to have something small around this time otherwise you will be irritable, unproductive, and hungry all afternoon. One of the key’s to preventing this is to make sure you include some protein with your lunch, as this helps to keep those pesky hunger bugs away!
Australia, and most of the western world offers such an enormous variety of cuisines to tantalise our tastebuds. Often we get carried away with the variety and differences that we forget to stop and think about the health aspects of what we're eating.
This document gives us some really good choices, especially if we're dining with others who rush head-long into the high carbs and high fats. Read More
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The body thinks that it should stay at the weight it is?
This is according to the “set-point” theory of weight loss, which says that the body has a control system that determines how much fat should be stored. Kind of like a thermostat for fat. Ageing, stress, pollution, lack of exercise, and over-eating all may have the unfortunate effect of increasing your set point.
Whole fresh foods should be the basis of what we all eat, whether your nutritional type is protein type, carb type or mixed type. Whole foods, whether meat, vegetable or fruit, do two things: they provide all the nutrients that nature put into the food--not just as a sum of nutrients, but even more, as a synergy of nutrients that work together because they naturally interact within the living plant or animal. When we eat these foods, which have been connected with our whole existence as a species, the total health benefit to us is much greater than the sum of the parts. The second practical advantage of eating whole fresh foods is that they substitute, by their sheer bulk, the chemicals and denatured food derivatives that we might otherwise eat.
But you work non-stop and when you get home there is no time or energy to do anything but nuke half-synthetic processed food in the microwave. How do we get into that trap?
According to Dr. Kenneth Proefrock, NMD, a huge part of the problem is not knowing what you’re going to eat on Thursday night until ... Thursday night. By that time, you’re lucky if you even make it home for dinner because your tummy rang the dinner bell back around Exit 128, and there just happen to be about four fast food outlets off that exit, as well as at the next exit coming up. (Funny how those fast food places are right there when the stomach growls.)
Here’s a big key, says Dr. Proefrock, to getting out of that trap. Plan on the weekend what you will eat for every meal the coming week. Your menu does not have to be set in stone; you can leave room to juggle for spontaneity now and then, but at least provide for enough of your own homemade food to eat each time you get hungry. Read full article ..
