Eating For Health

Have you ever heard someone say, “I have a slow metabolism”?   I have.   But have you ever heard someone say, “I have habits that are slowing my metabolism”?   There are habits that can help rev your metabolism and there are habits that can slow down your metabolism .   Some of these habits you may not be aware of and some you may have heard of before.   It is always interesting to me to listen to someone who wants to lose weight and then they go on a diet that slows down their metabolism and actually makes it harder for them to lose weight.   Do you have any habits that may be slowing your metabolism down? What are some habits you may be doing that may be slowing your metabolism?     1.  Not taking in enough calories – Everyone knows to lose weight; you should decrease calories and increase your exercise.   But some people decrease their calories too much and end up slowing their metabolism down.   A person going on essentially a starvation diet has a body that will work hard t

Hard to avoid “processed” food.   Some of my students say that to eat healthy one should avoid “processed” food.   But most of the food we eat is “processed” to some extent.   Eating whole wheat bread is healthy but bread is “processed” as they harvested the grain, milled the grain, made the flour and then made the bread.   Cereal, even whole grain cereal, is processed.   Canned vegetables are processed as is canned fruit in syrup.     But some food is “ultraprocessed” so much so that this processing adversely affects the nutritional processing of the food.   What are ultraprocessed foods and how is the nutritional value of this type of food affected?   Are there any consequences to your health if you eat a lot of ultraprocessed food? What are ultraprocessed foods ? Not only are these foods processed but often these foods have lots of added sugar, salt, and fat as well as preservatives and many have artificial colors.   Foods that are considered ultraprocessed include: Frozen m