My Journey to Healthy Eating
I had a long struggle with acne since my younger teenage years and had little luck with preventing it. Over time, I began to realize that there was a direct connection to foods I was eating and my next break out. After realizing this, I started developing this short observation list which has now become my general rules for healthy eating. While following these simple rules, I've consistently noticed having more energy, much less oily build up on my face, forehead, and back, and in general, feeling much better overall.
- Eat less sugar
- Eat less breads
- Eat less processed food
- Eat less food in general
- Eliminate seed oils as much as possible
Over time I started to realize that all of these points hinge on eating less processed food as the root concern. Our modern diet in America really has no staple foods, but most of us do consume a large quanity of processed foods relative to the healthy foods we eat. I recently heard it said that one "cannot eat too much steak," as an example of how we can't over-consume natural food sources. In my experience, I've never been able to eat too much salad either!
Several months ago I discovered a helpful app called Yuka which identifies and rates foods 0-100 on the nutritional value of the food, the presence of additives, and the organic nature of the product. Through using the app, it hasn't taken long to discover that whole classes of foods we are accustomed to eating, are really not good for our health. Through this, I've started to discovered that our whole model of eating and foods really needs turned on its head and we need to start from first principles in making these decisions on what to put into our bodies. When we start to have a long term health goal in mind, it will radically change our eating decisions now.
to be continued...