Healthy Eating 101

ByJolene Park

Today at The City of Lakewood I showed Hungry For Change during the lunch hour as part of the employee wellness program. It’s a well done documentary and you can purchase it for $35 to watch at home if you’re so inclined. Tomorrow I’m teaching two Healthy Eating classes at Shamrock Foods. Later this month I’ll be back at Lyntek teaching How To Read Food Labels And Successfully Navigate Your Way Through a Supermarket.

As I research these classes I’m always looking for the most recent and useful resources. When I surf around the Internet and gather various resources (Healthy Discoveries) I love the wit and articulation of my online, like minded nutrition peeps. Below are some of my favorite quotes that I recently came across.

 

 

 

Processed Food Wisdom – Stumptuous.com

  • If you’re gonna insist on buying food in bags, boxes, or plastic packages, at least read the label.
  • Anything with more than 2-3 ingredients is probably not real food.
  • Anything with long chemical names is probably not real food.
  • Anything promoted by a mascot is probably not real food.
  • Anything with its own commercial is probably not real food.
  • Anything that contains something ending in “ose” (such as glucose, fructose, sucrose, or cellulose) is probably not real food.

 

Fat Loss Wisdom – JillFit 

“The reality of getting lean is that you have to start saying no. Say no to dessert, bread baskets, booze, etc. You can’t have your cake & lose fat too.”

 

Tough Love For People Who Whine, Make Excuses, & Quit The 30 Day Paleo Challenge Because It Is Too Hard! Whole 9

Don’t you dare tell us this (30 day healthy eating challenge) is hard. Quitting heroin is hard. Beating cancer is hard. Drinking your coffee black. Is. Not. Hard. You won’t get any coddling, and you won’t get any sympathy for your “struggles”. YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE not to complete the program. It’s only thirty days, and it’s for the most important health cause on earth – the only physical body you will ever have in this lifetime. Unless you physically tripped and your face landed in a box of doughnuts, there is no “slip”. You make a choice to eat something unhealthy. It is always a choice, so do not phrase it as if you had an accident. Commit to the program 100% for the full 30 days. Don’t give yourself an excuse to fail before you’ve even started.

 

Weight Loss vs. Fat Loss- Metabolic Effect

Want weight loss? Then you don’t need to pay attention to the types of food you eat. Just eat less. Want fat loss? Then quality matters more. What’s the difference? Weight loss is indiscriminate, you are losing some fat but you are losing muscle too. So, basically if you want to be skinny and flabby go for weight loss (not sure why you would want this but some do) and if you want smaller and tighter go for fat loss.

Fat loss is about targeting fat loss specifically. Two simple things you can do to turn weight loss into fat loss: 1) Eat more protein and 2) Weight train.

 

How To Build A Healthy Meal <—-Click here. It’s a great PDF that you can print out and refer to when you want to select and eat healthy, *real* food.

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