What is Healthy Eating to Me?

My nutrition plan includes whole foods like fruits, vegetables, lean meats and whole grains. I try to stay away from processed foods as much as possible. When you eat something with chemicals, your body says what's this? How do I digest this? How will it helps my body function? What nutrients can be used? Unfortunately your body has to give up after a while and try to guess. Because there is no nutritional value and your body has no use for them. How will your body turn that into fat!!!

Chemicals make your fat cells larger, when entered into your body, your system protects itself by storing the foreign junk as fat cells away from your vital organs. It's a survival mechanism naturally occurring inside your body. When you are eating a banana, your body is able to easily identify it. Your body digests it easily and distributes nutrients while improving the body’s function and increases metabolism.

Do you eat processed foods?

When I do eat processed foods, I have always followed six rules:

• No High Fructose Corn Syrup - commonly used in place of sugar in processed foods.
 

• No Trans Fats – Trans Fat is considered by many doctors to be the worst type of fat you can eat. It raises your LDL ("bad") cholesterol and lowers your HDL ("good") cholesterol.

 

• No Partially Hydrogenated Oils - Hydrogenation, complete or partial, is a chemical process in which hydrogen is added to liquid oils to turn them into a solid form. Partially hydrogenated fat molecules have trans fats, which is considered the worst type of fat you can consume.

 

• Stay away from Enriched White Flour - many of the good things that were originally in it have been stripped out through refinement. The components added back to the flour are actually toxic.

 

• No Bleached Flour - when white flour is bleached, it can actually be FAR worse for you than white flour. It’s generally understood that refining food destroys nutrients. With the most nutritious part of the grain removed, white flour essentially becomes a form of sugar.

 

• Sugar content in foods are to be 4 grams or less - The harmful effects of sugar go way beyond empty calories. Watch for a post on the harmful effects of sugar later this week.