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How to Eat Food- 5 Things You Really Need to Know
You’ve grown up eating food your entire life. But chances are you were never taught how to truly eat properly. To get even more benefit from your nutrition, here’s five quick tips you can use to truly eat properly:
It takes at least 20 minutes to feel full
Eat until you are comfortably full, not stuffed. Eating slowly allows your normal feedback mechanism to kick in, telling your body to stop eating before it’s overfilled.
Chew your food thoroughly
This helps to break down into smaller pieces and mix saliva into them to start the breakdown process where it’s meant to start. Chew your food well until it’s in small, soft pieces. Watch your digestion improve with this one simple tip alone.
Chew liquid foods
Even liquid calories need to have saliva mixed into them to break them down properly. Anytime you drink foods such as smoothies, soups or coffee, make sure you chew them or swish them around your mouth. This mixes the important enzymes in your...
Improve Your Mental Well Being By Working On Your Digestion
By being able to do all the stages of digestion well, you’ll be more likely to have adequate nutrient production. Your GI tract produces all kinds of nutrients and neurotransmitters such as serotonin. We are learning new information every day about what role the gut plays!
Your GI tract is part of building a healthy immune system and is very connected to mental health. Your gut produces between 70-90% of the serotonin in your body, which helps with mood, well-being, and happiness. If you want to have good mental health, improving your digestion is a great place to start.
Dylan is a young 26 year old who has severe bipolar disorder with mixed symptoms of depression and mania. Due to the type of bipolar disorder he has, it has been a challenge to find a medication that works consistently for him. As a result, he often needs medication changes and is rarely able to find a balance between his bipolar symptoms and the medication side effects.
When Dylan is manic, he is super...
What is Whole Grain Anyway?
The difference between the two seems pretty subtle, and it absolutely is. What’s happening is that you are being tricked into eating foods that you think are way healthier for you than they actually are. The key word is whole grain, there’s no “s” on the end of it. “Whole grain” will appear on some of the labels of the food products that you eat. What you want to think about is what you are really eating. If you are buying a product and it has a label on it, then it’s probably not a whole grain.
Within a grain, there are a few key structures. The outer layer or bran contains the fiber, B vitamins, and trace minerals. Inside the grain are two components, the smaller part is the germ. It’s a tiny little core that contains antioxidants, B and E vitamins, and good fats. The endosperm is the other inside part that’s mostly made up of carbohydrates and proteins. That’s what most food products are...
