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Re-watching "Hungry for Change" to try and re-motivate myself!!
--When we get into what the human race needs to eat as a species, we realize that people are over-fed... but they are also starving to death.
--As mammals, our ancestors lived on the earth were there was a food shortage and we are genetically programmed to seek out food sources. When we taste something sweet or fatty our bodies say "YES, I WANT MORE OF THAT"
--and now, there is a lot of food available but it is the wrong kind
--our bodies seek out and store fat in an effort to prepare for periods of feast and famine, the problem is now we have a ton of different food sources (feast), but no famine.
--you can eat 10,000 calories a day, but if you are not getting the nutrients you need in a way that your body can digest them properly, then you're starving on a nutritional basis. As long as you're starving on nutritional level, then your body is going to send hunger signals
--processed food like white bread trick the body into thinking it is getting nutrients, but they are lacking in "real" nutrients so the body is still staving at the cellular level
--people are starved of nutrients so they just keep eating and eating to try and gain those nutrients but the problem is that these processed foods are full of calories which the body stores as body fat
--People need to learn how to take care of their body nutritionally.
--We left farms, we got to living in cities and forgot about our natural instincts and a misunderstanding of what a natural diet actually includes.
--Processed food manufactures goal is not to give you a healthy product, but to give you a product that will make you buy it, that will last long, and will make profit for the company producing it
--we have a processed junk food diet, and a sedentary lifestyle where you end up with way too many calories, and no activity to burn off those calories
--People have gotten into a crisis where they don't know how to take care of their bodies so they turn to their doctor to allivate their symptoms and the doctor simply prescribes them a pharmaceutical pill which does not actually address the real problem
--The biggest cause of obesity is addiction. People can understand addiction to ciggerates and alcohol, but not to food.
--People know why they shouldn't eat certain foods, but people dont understand why they want to.
--manufactures use chemical derivatives in order to alter how food tastes so make them more appealing to consumers. The result is chemically altered food that tastes quite good and could have an addictive component
--the chemical of MSG excites the brain and causes it to want more. In food manufacturing research, scientists use MSG in order to make a mouse fat. Mice do not get fat in nature. we have to MAKE them fat. the fact that MSG can causes obesity is a scientific fact. Yet MSG is in over 80% of modern manufactured products.
--Process food like soda will give you a momentary feeling of happiness, but then that feeling very quickly drops of, and the body is left wanting actual nutrients so it craves more food. Since the processed foods give that momentary feeling of happiness, people tend to go get another soda instead of actually nourishing the body
--The food industry just wants to sell you more food, so they alter the chemical state of food to make it seem very "filling" but lacking in actual nutrients so that the body craves more.
--Diet soda has aspartame and caffeine and those two together make up a toxin that kills off brain cells but before the brain cells die they give off a "Buzz" that the body ends up craving more and more
--artificial sweeteners have been proven to not only have horrific side effects but to also cause carbohydrate cravings (sugar)
--the food companies know that many of their artificial ingredients are highly addictive, but they are in the business to simply sell more products to consumers and are not concerned with how their products actually affect the health of consumers.
--Marketing lies to you in that the image it provides tells you that you will be happy and thin, but in reality you risk having multiple health issues from artificial ingredients
--Many nutritional labels are very deceptive (Fat free, low-fat, low carb, ingredient listings). For example, Propylene glycol is a chemical used as blueberry artificial flavoring. but this same chemical is also used to winterize RVs (stop pipes from freezing over) and also to clean out patients colons before a colonoscopy
--When americans started noticed that they were getting fat as a population, they started making "fat" as a macro-nutrient they enemy. Everything became "Fat-free" and marketing made people think that "Fat-Free" foods would help them not be fat.
--the calories that fat was occupying in "fat free" foods were replaced with carbs, which resulted in even more weight gain
--Fat free usually means that the product is loaded with sugar. You can have a 2 pound bag of sugar and put a label that says "100% fat-free". However, once the sugar is ingested, it will turn into fat in the body bc it sends blood sugar leves sky high. The pancreas' job is to normalize blood sugar levels buy releasing insulin when sugar levels are too high. Insulin is a fat producing hormone.
--Fat is good for you if it is the right kind of fat. A low fat diet will make you feel constantly hungry because the body needs fat as a macro-nutrient. Healthy fats are plant based fats from avocados, fish, and seeds/nuts.
--High fructose corn syrup does come from corn, which is natural, but high fructose corn syrup is dangerous for your health in that it is a highly refined, chemically manipulated isolated nutrient. For example, cocaine is not good for your health, but it comes from the cocoa leaf, which is natural and perfectly fine for your health. But cocaine is a highly refined, chemically manipulated isolated nutrient derived from the cocoa leave.
--Sugar is also a highly refined, chemically manipulated isolated nutrient derived from natural foods such as beets or sugar cane. Same with white flour being a pharmaceutical version of natural substance.
--The main source of calories in the US is from fructose which is highly addictive.
--Carbs are converted into sugar in the body.
--Sugar is more than just the white powder: bread, corn, rice etc.
--sugar is in everything. What sugar does is it increases beta endorphins in the brain, which is a "feel good" opiate/morphine-like substance. and so when you're depressed or under stress, you want to eat what people call "Comfort foods", all of which give the body an over load of sugar (either as just sugar or as carbs). People seek out the beta endorphin that sugar provides in order to comfort themselves, but people don't realize that sugar is addictive like a drug ... just like alcohol is a drug. people end up needing more and more sugar in order to get them same beta endorphin effect. So Fat doesn't make you fat, it's sugar that makes people fat.
--People accepting cocaine as a highly addictive drug. People need to realize that sugar is addictive like a drug.
--Diets don't work. Diets are temporary. They take one of the macro nutrients that we need to survive (Crabs, fat, and protein) and eliminate or severely restrict them. This helps people to lose weight temporarily, but in the long run is not healthy because the body needs all of the macro nutrients in order to be nutritionally balanced.
--90-95% of people who go on a diet will gain their weight back because they are so happy to be eating again that they don't eat intelligently.
--society thinks that overweight people are weak, lazy, and overindulgent...but even very disciplined people find it hard to lose weight with a "diet".
--people are looking for a result that is superficial (want to look good), t=but they don't really consider that this could be done from the INSIDE out. People start Fad diets in order to lose weight fast, but that is not the way to approach it.
--We set ourselves up for failure because "diets" are simply manipulating the ratios of fat to protein or amount of calories in different variations.
--The REAL definition of a diet is "The food an organism habitually eats to sustain itself" When we get on our REAL diet we won't have to think about different variations of macro nutrients.
--If you put a human being in a zoo, the question would be "what do we feed that human being?" We don't feed chimpanzees in zoos captain crunch cereal, Twinkies, and donuts.... we feed them a diet that looks like the diet of what they had in their natural habitat. The same should be for humans
--The very second we tell our brain that we are on a "diet", we go into the mode of "can't". We need to switch our way of thinking from "I want that, but I can't have it" to "I can have it, but I don't want it"
--our bodies do not know how to process man-made products. the best strategy is to simply keep adding in the "good stuff" (natural ingredients like fruits and veggies, whole grain breads)
--simple foods are the best: plant foods, fruits, nuts, seeds, high quality animal products.
--if you keep adding in whole, natural foods, eventually those foods will over crowd the manufactured, man-made foods
--The best way to start out is helping the body de-toxify itself using a whole foods diet including green vegetables, gelatinous fibers (chia seeds, aloe Vera, seaweeds), parsley, cilantro
--our body wants to cleanse itself, and it knows how, we just need to give it the proper nutrition in order to do so.
--If you remove refined sugars, refined fats, junk food, refined white flour, and processed man-made foods going into you body and REPLACE those with organic, vitamin rich fuel from fruits and vegetables from spectrum of colors which has everything the body requires... the body will gladly accept the change and automatically start the detoxification process leading to better health and performance.
Diet Calendar Entries for 15 February 2016:
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2064 kcal
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Fat: 53.96g | Prot: 100.87g | Carb: 307.85g.
Breakfast: Lee Kum Kee Sriracha Chili Sauce, Kroger Wheat Tortillas, Cottage Cheese (Lowfat 2% Milkfat), Spinach, Kroger Eggs (Large), Coffee, Navels Oranges, Bananas, Spinach, Blue Diamond Almond Breeze Original Unsweetened Non-Dairy Beverage. Lunch: Brookdale Vegetarian Chili with Beans, Mahatma Natural Whole Grain Brown Rice. Dinner: Bush's Best Homestyle Baked Beans, Cauliflower, Brown Rice, Stonewall Kitchen Sesame Ginger Teriyaki Sauce. Snacks/Other: Hershey's Kisses Hugs, Cottage Cheese (Lowfat 2% Milkfat), Pistachio Nuts, Clementines. more...
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