The three best kinds of food for fat loss....
Today's Post: Friday, 11-6-2009
Earlier today, I read the new version of Total Health Breakthroughs.
(After it stopped its initial format that I found usually informative, for a while they stopped running the same kind of health information they were. They have begun to show signs of building back to what they were; & today’s article was quite useful.)
In this issue, their new editor tells the story of how when he was a younger man who exercised regularly, he still was at least 20 pounds overfat.
He also found he seemed to be hungry at all hours of the day; & his mood and energy bounced around quite a bit.
At that time, he was eating a lot of refined grains and other fattening foods such as pizza, breakfast cereal (mostly the kind made from refined grains from the sound of it), bagels, sandwiches, chips, & soft drinks.
As many people have, he began to study what foods people ate before 10,000 years ago. (Clearly, that’s what hundreds of thousands of years of evolution set up our bodies to use well.)
Then he did three things.
He continued to exercise.
He stopped eating the refined grain foods listed above & stopped drinking soft drinks.
Instead, he ate lots of salads made with greens, a variety of colorful vegetables, vegetable juice he made at home with a juicer, and for protein he ate whole eggs, grass fed beef, pasture fed poultry, and wild caught salmon – plus he ate some cheese and dairy foods. He also snacked on nuts and whole fresh fruit.
The result was interesting. His mood and energy improved and were more stable. He lost the 20 pounds -- virtually all of it fat since the fat in his face and in his belly were visibly reduced to a more normal and desirable look. That fat was gone.
But the really interesting part is that he completely stopped being hungry all the time.
It seems that he found either before or after he did this that almost all the foods he was eating when he lost the fat have close to zero glycemic index and glycemic load.
That means that his blood sugar was at desirable levels and not kicked into high levels several times a day by eating the refined grains and sugars he had been ingesting.
The rebound hunger he was getting from the fast-acting, high glycemic foods he was eating went away and was replaced by the more effective and long lasting turning down of his hunger from the protein, health OK fats, and fiber he then began to eat.
He points out that this way of eating eliminated the high glycemic (60 & up on the glycemic index) foods that he had been eating and replaced them with foods that were mostly low glycemic (20 or below on the glycemic index.)
He then provides a link to some foods that have been rated by glycemic index and glycemic load.
It was no surprise when the three food groups he had mostly been eating rated as zero on both glycemic index and glycemic load.
(Since glycemic load is the best indicator of what a food will do to your blood sugar as it takes the amount of carbohydrates into account and the glycemic index, that’s a valuable addition.)
Here are those 3 food groups that ranked zero on glycemic index and glycemic load.:
1. Nonstarchy vegetables. These include such foods as:
Cooked cabbage, raw cauliflower, green beans, spinach, & mushrooms -- & though not listed, raw broccoli florets, radishes, asparagus, and other salad greens such as kale and romaine lettuce, etc.
The salads and cooked vegetables he ate contained these foods or others like them.
2. Raw or dry roasted nuts. Pecans, walnuts, and almonds were listed in the zero, zero group.
He snacked on nuts in part.
3. Eggs, meats, seafood, and fish also were listed in the zero, zero group.
He not only ate these foods, he ate the safest, least polluted, and most health supporting kinds.
He did also eat some fresh fruit and dairy foods and juiced vegetables which have low moderate to moderate ratings on the glycemic index. But with the majority of his foods from the zero, zero, list, the overall glycemic load of his food and drink was clearly at an average glycemic index of less than 20.
The result was hunger-free and effective fat loss. (He was gradually getting fatter and almost always hungry before.)
He did continue to exercise. But the kinds of foods and drinks he stopped and those he switched to clearly did a great job.
Today's Post: Friday, 11-6-2009
Earlier today, I read the new version of Total Health Breakthroughs.
(After it stopped its initial format that I found usually informative, for a while they stopped running the same kind of health information they were. They have begun to show signs of building back to what they were; & today’s article was quite useful.)
In this issue, their new editor tells the story of how when he was a younger man who exercised regularly, he still was at least 20 pounds overfat.
He also found he seemed to be hungry at all hours of the day; & his mood and energy bounced around quite a bit.
At that time, he was eating a lot of refined grains and other fattening foods such as pizza, breakfast cereal (mostly the kind made from refined grains from the sound of it), bagels, sandwiches, chips, & soft drinks.
As many people have, he began to study what foods people ate before 10,000 years ago. (Clearly, that’s what hundreds of thousands of years of evolution set up our bodies to use well.)
Then he did three things.
He continued to exercise.
He stopped eating the refined grain foods listed above & stopped drinking soft drinks.
Instead, he ate lots of salads made with greens, a variety of colorful vegetables, vegetable juice he made at home with a juicer, and for protein he ate whole eggs, grass fed beef, pasture fed poultry, and wild caught salmon – plus he ate some cheese and dairy foods. He also snacked on nuts and whole fresh fruit.
The result was interesting. His mood and energy improved and were more stable. He lost the 20 pounds -- virtually all of it fat since the fat in his face and in his belly were visibly reduced to a more normal and desirable look. That fat was gone.
But the really interesting part is that he completely stopped being hungry all the time.
It seems that he found either before or after he did this that almost all the foods he was eating when he lost the fat have close to zero glycemic index and glycemic load.
That means that his blood sugar was at desirable levels and not kicked into high levels several times a day by eating the refined grains and sugars he had been ingesting.
The rebound hunger he was getting from the fast-acting, high glycemic foods he was eating went away and was replaced by the more effective and long lasting turning down of his hunger from the protein, health OK fats, and fiber he then began to eat.
He points out that this way of eating eliminated the high glycemic (60 & up on the glycemic index) foods that he had been eating and replaced them with foods that were mostly low glycemic (20 or below on the glycemic index.)
He then provides a link to some foods that have been rated by glycemic index and glycemic load.
It was no surprise when the three food groups he had mostly been eating rated as zero on both glycemic index and glycemic load.
(Since glycemic load is the best indicator of what a food will do to your blood sugar as it takes the amount of carbohydrates into account and the glycemic index, that’s a valuable addition.)
Here are those 3 food groups that ranked zero on glycemic index and glycemic load.:
1. Nonstarchy vegetables. These include such foods as:
Cooked cabbage, raw cauliflower, green beans, spinach, & mushrooms -- & though not listed, raw broccoli florets, radishes, asparagus, and other salad greens such as kale and romaine lettuce, etc.
The salads and cooked vegetables he ate contained these foods or others like them.
2. Raw or dry roasted nuts. Pecans, walnuts, and almonds were listed in the zero, zero group.
He snacked on nuts in part.
3. Eggs, meats, seafood, and fish also were listed in the zero, zero group.
He not only ate these foods, he ate the safest, least polluted, and most health supporting kinds.
He did also eat some fresh fruit and dairy foods and juiced vegetables which have low moderate to moderate ratings on the glycemic index. But with the majority of his foods from the zero, zero, list, the overall glycemic load of his food and drink was clearly at an average glycemic index of less than 20.
The result was hunger-free and effective fat loss. (He was gradually getting fatter and almost always hungry before.)
He did continue to exercise. But the kinds of foods and drinks he stopped and those he switched to clearly did a great job.
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