There is nothing wrong with special occasion foods, as long as every day is not a special occasion. Spend as much time enjoying the meal as it took to prepare it. There is an Indian proverb that gets at this idea: “Drink your food, chew your drink.” In other words, eat slowly enough, and chew thoroughly enough, to liquefy your food, and move your drink around in your mouth to thoroughly taste it before swallowing.Īnother strategy, encoded in a table manner that’s been all but forgotten: “Put down your fork between bites.”
So slow down and pay attention to what your body-and not just your sense of sight-is telling you. It can take twenty minutes before your brain gets the word that your belly is full that means that if you take less than twenty minutes to finish a meal, the sensation of satiety will arrive too late to be of any use.
“Better to pay the grocer than the doctor.” And if that higher-quality food tastes better, you will need less of it to feel satisfied. If you spend more for better food, you’ll probably eat less of it, and treat it with more care. “Eating what stands on one leg is better than eating what stands on two legs, which is better than eating what stands on four legs. This was the bottom line, and it was satisfying to have found it, a piece of hard ground deep down at the bottom of the swamp of nutrition science: seven words of plain English, no biochemistry degree required.Īvoid food products that contain more than five ingredients. The healthcare industry makes more money treating chronic diseases (which account for three quarters of the $2 trillion plus we spend each year on health care in this country) than preventing them. The result: The average male is seventeen pounds heavier and the average female nineteen pounds heavier than in the late 1970s. Since the low-fat campaign began in the late 1970s, Americans actually have been eating more than 500 additional calories per day, most of them in the form of refined carbohydrates like sugar.
What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!
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