Does eating healthily make a difference, being mindful of what we eat?
It’s that time of Year , New Year Resolutions , Stop Smoking, Lose Weight, Veganuary. By the end of the week, most have fallen by the wayside.
I’ve never made New Year Resolutions. It has always seemed to me a pointless exercise. If I want to do something I do it.
There is though a psychological reason for starting on the first of the month. A fresh start, a new beginning. So what better way to start then the First of January with a New Year Resolution. A New Year, a fresh start?
One possibility. Three fermented foods a day. This is based on a Stanford study, five fermented foods a day. Zoe replicated the study with 5000 volunteers, three fermented foods a day. Both studies showed marked improvement in health. I tried last year. No noticeable improvement.
A discussion between Tim Spector, Sarah Berry and Jonathan Wolf, eight ways we can improve our health by eating better in the New Year.
Counting calories is not the way to lose weight. Yo-yo diets.
We are not short of protein. Ignore the protein scams. Multi-billion dollar scam. The average person on a varied diet eats more than sufficient protein. Additional protein is not stored. It passes through or is converted to sugars and fat.
Positive changes to our diet lead to improvements in how we feel within days.
principles
mindful eating
eat 30 plants a week
avoid ultra-processed food
focus on food quality not calorie counting
when you eat
eat the rainbow
protein quality
eat fermented foods at least three a day
There are simple things we can do to improve our diet, improve our health.
Eat 30 plants a week. Five a Day is dated. Diversity of what we eat is important.
Eat the rainbow.
Eat three different fermented foods a day.
The three Ks, kimchi, krauts, kefir.
Avoid ultra-processed foods. Always read the labels.
Hashtag #ckeaneating on Instagram, 47.3 million posts.
Bone broth aka stock. Nutritionous, excellent if under the weather, or to add to risotto.
Gluten free, yes if have genetic abnormality. A couple of a percent maybe gluten intolerant. A health benefit, gluten free? No.
A randomised clinical trial found that the problem was not gluten, it was ultra-processed food.
Look at the long list of ingredients for sliced white bread.
The long slow fermentation of sourdough bread breaks down the gluten (not zero gluten). Those with gluten intolerance can eat sourdough bread (but equally could be because not ultra-processed food).
Archeological sites show we have been eating grains for thousands of years. Long enough to have adapted.
Alkaline diet the realm of the loonies. Consume only alkaline foods to maintain the body in an alkaline state. Two problems. The body self-regulates, and that includes pH, which varies in various parts of the body according to function. The highly prescriptive regime of what to eat, includes acidic foods (work that one out).
Protein is protein is protein. It is broken down into amino acids, basic building blocks.
The worry is the influence of Instagram and now TikTok. People posting garbage, which gets regurgitated by failing Reach Group.
Every day, failing Reach Group, regurgitates nutritional click bait posted on Instagram.
I am bombarded with crap on social media, that is in addition to the click bait nutritional advice pumped out by failing Reach Group .
High protein zero sugar cereals, protein powders, adulterated coffee with unproven health claims.
The average person on a varied diet consumes more than sufficient protein. Excess protein is not stored. It passes through or is converted to sugars and fat.
Coffee is healthy
high in polyphenols
high in fibre
An excellent documentary highlighting dodgy diet fads and ibuprofen health benefits.
Giles Yeo is a professor at Cambridge University looking at the genetics of obesity, auhor of Calories Don’t Count.
Improve your health by eating 30 different plants a week (Five a Day dated): fruit, vegetables, seeds, pulses, legumes, herbs, spices, fungi. Also fermented foods: yoghurt, kefir, saukraut, kimchi, kombucha. Also dark chocolate and coffee.
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