How to Eat for Optimal Health - Not Starve and Lose Weight

     Things are not always as difficult as they look like. Trust me. I have seen it a million times. You have, also, seen people being much more effective than you with much less effort, a situation that made you angry about this unjustness. But was it injustice? Have you wondered if he/she had used a more effective way? This is Life, it doesn't work linearly. The greatest effort doesn't always result in the corresponding achievement. You need a realistic plan apart from the effort.

As you can understand, diet works like this, as well; you may follow all the instructions of your nutritionist but your friend may be losing pounds quicker or you may not be losing even a gram. Fortunately, Science has now reached the point to be able to provide us with a realistic plan for optimal and easy results if followed. Of course, no one ever provided us with the instruction manual of the human body but after thousands of researches, hypothesis, experiments, publications and proofs we can come to a serious understanding about the optimal eating.

In order to learn what would be the perfect nutrition for the human body we have to look at where and how it evolved the way it is. In other words what were the nutritional facts in which our ancestors managed to survive. It's like trying to find out if a plane works with petrol or kerosene.

As many times mentioned, the fewer than 10 thousand years that people live in a city environment are insignificant in creating changes in the DNA. As a result, the human body today still contains the features that made it effective in a jungle environment and in a nomad societal mentality. So, by taking into account this reasonable rule, modern nutritionists studied the food that was available under those conditions before applying them to experiments and come to the conclusions that were expected. That if you provide the body the elements which has evolved to consume, not only you will achieve health but you will have almost optimal levels of fat. The appropriate food for the body is the same thing as the kerosene for the plane whereas the inappropriate (the foods that should not be consumed at all or a little) are what petrol could be for a plane.

Even though the results can reach to the point of being amazing, you just need to avoid some foods that seem to be incompatible with the human body. Most of the "bad" foods have the common characteristic that are white or yellow: Bread, milk, noodles, rice, pasta, sugar, oat, corn, potatoes, grains, cereals, tortillas and fried breading crust. Brown bread, rice and pasta are also "bad" because they create the same insulin effects contrary to what is commonly believed. All the above are high-carbohydrate foods that in the vast majority of the human existence didn't exist or weren't consumed (except for mum's milk) so the body cannot absorb them effectively resulting in weight gain and health implications such as diabetes. If you manage to stay away from all of them as much as possible and you don't eat unlimited amounts of fruit you will be surprised by your decreased levels of fat and your increased levels of energy, brain function and happiness. At the same time you can consume as much meat, eggs, fish and vegetables as you like without measuring the calories. In the jungle they weren't either. There exist a bunch of delicious recipes with the use of these elements.

I know very well that this is not the typical advice your nutritionist could give you. The Official American Health Association recommends a diet of approximately 65% of daily calories coming from carbohydrates and thus from many of the above "bad" foods. Their results are far from effective and you can search on-line about the obesity and diabetes levels in the USA. Then you can wonder if something is going wrong in the whole story and question their authority once again. At the same time -- if you come across these facts for the first time -- by using these seeds of knowledge you can conduct your own research about the effects of high levels of sugar in the blood which come as a result of a high carb-diet. Also, I have written more specifically about them in these two articles: The Nutrition Today and the Slow-Carb Diet and The Nutrition Today and the Slow-Carb Diet (Part 2: My Application in Everyday Life).

Moreover, humans have been consuming fatty foods for millions of years and it's their most efficient energy provider. Men were risking their lives every day to hunt for meat and the ones who could catch more were the most attractive. Women were gathering vegetables and fruits when available. They weren't planting seeds to grow barley or milking the cows, this has been happening only the last few thousands of years.

The rule is one and only and you need to make the switch in consciousness:

OUR PROBLEMS COME FROM CARBOHYDRATES AND NOT FROM FATS!

Copyright (c) 2013 Angelos Karageorgos

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