Checkout A List Of Healthy Foods Your Body Needs
May 26th, 2011 | By Todd Bowman | Category: Diet And Nutrition, Lose Weight
In this article we’re going to put together a short list of healthy foods that you should be eating every day in your current diet.
Getting the right nutrition in your food isn’t always easy. Each day we need minerals, vitamins, structured water, healthy fat, beneficial bacteria like acidophilus, polysaccharides (plant medicines from mushrooms), as well as normal macro nutrients like good ratios of proteins, carbohydrates and fats.
Are you eating the right types of fats? Better yet, are you eating fats? In this culture, we’re fat phobic. Everybody wants low fat this, low fat that. They’re scared of saturated fats (like real butter and coconut oils) and they think that if they eat fat they’re going to put on weight and actually get fat.
This couldn’t be further from the truth. As anecdotal evidence, about 70% of my diet is high quality fats and I don’t put on any weight at all. Sure my metabolism is sky high but fat doesn’t make you fat, carbohydrates and sugars do. Not only do sugars and carbs make you fat but they cause diabetes, cancer and heart attacks also.
Is a heart attack worth it the next time you can’t control your food cravings and addictions and wolf down 6 slices of pizza?
What we reap we sow my friends.
Fats aren’t necessarily bad for you. In fact, your body needs fats in order to function properly. To make things more interesting, there are fats that also help you burn fat. Your brain is actually made up of fat and actually runs on healthy fats.
If you eat healthy fats, you can eat as much as you want and you’ll never put on a pound. Here are some of my favorite fats, salmon, nuts (almonds, brazil nuts, cashews, macadamia nuts), seeds (pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds), fruits (avocados, coconut meat/flesh, olives), raw grass fed meats, cream, butter, olive oil, eggs, bacon, coconut oils and the list goes on. I live on fats.
There are 2 essential fatty acids that your body needs. Unfortunately, your body can’t create these on its own. Namely, those are omega 3 fats and omega 6 fats.
If you’re not eating the right amounts of fats, your brain, eyes and nervous system suffers as a result.
Sources of omega 6 fats include grains, some processed foods, some vegetable oils while omega 3 fats are found in vegetables, wild salmon, walnuts, organic eggs and sardines.
Unfortunately, a lot of people tend to eat more omega 6 fats, way more than what is necessary. Ideally, the consumption ratio between omega 3 to omega 6 fats is 1:4. However, most people consume too much of the latter that the ratio often reaches 1:50.
One source of fat that you should be eating is salmon (make sure it’s not farm raised or genetically modified). It’s an important source of fat that everyone should be consuming. Everybody knows that salmon is healthy. However, not everybody knows that the reason it’s good for you is because of its fat.
Aside from salmon, how do you incorporate enough omega 3 fats in your daily diet? To help you out with that, here’s a sample of a daily plan that contains the sufficient amount of omega 3s.
Please read this carefully because it’s vital for you to be healthy.
- In the morning, eat organic eggs. If eggs aren’t available, you can grind flaxseed, another source of omega 3, into your meal.
- As a morning snack, nibble on raw walnuts and/or walnut butter even almond butter will work.
- Eating wild salmon or sardines for lunch or dinner will give you extra omega 3s.
Remember that eating 2 or 3 sources of omega 3s per day is considered a sufficient amount to better balance both types of fats.
I hope this short list of healthy foods has been helpful to you.
It is my hope that you learned from this article to not fear fats. What we need to fear is our grain based diet in america and the havoc this is having on the health of our culture. Grains, wheat, gluten, carbohydrates and the like are responsible for just about all the diseases we’re facing.
Humans were never meant to eat these grains that we can’t even digest. All they do is putrefy in our intestinal tract, raise blood sugar and glucose levels which then raise insulin and create an inflammatory response in the body.
Get off the sugars and wheat based products and start eating lots of healthy fats and protein and you’ll be much better off.
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