5 foods you should never eat
Food should make us feel good. It tastes great and nourishes our bodies. If you eat too little or eat too much, your health and quality of life can be affected. Which can result in negative feelings toward food.
We humans are social animals and to make profit, we’ve created different kind of foods/things we call healthy, unhealthy, good, bad. We decided to call them that! And so our decisions are usually based on trends, or highly marketed studies. Is it any wonder that when we make our decisions, we usually are not sure why we are doing it. And so in order to feel better about our decisions, we then ‘want’ other people to confirm them. So ‘knowing’ what to eat becomes something we have to have permission from somebody else in order to eat. It’s also a way that the brain puts an obstacle in front of unrestricted eating. Either way it’s a barrier. A block that "protects" you from eating “too much" and makes you feel safer because of that. Choice overload is not a simple problem.
But we spend our lives with ourselves! We have all the time in our world, to listen to our body’s cravings, symptoms, temperature change needs, thirst and hunger cues, aches and energy needs to move. And food is essential to all of these, and we call it our health. One of the best ways to (re)learn how to listen to all the convos in our body in a world full of quick fixes, dopamine highs and cortisol spikes, is a seasonal or even annual Sugar Intervention. I first discovered this for myself and found I was able to help myself in crazy circumstances (obviously never without your medical practitioners knowledge, but I felt helping myself allowed all the medical stuff to have more effect!). By making a timed check in for you, you can gain your own data, reset your healthy and know what’s working or not and how you can up your game all thru a simple two week challenge.
The essence of Sugar Intervention is initially to eliminate five foods known to irritate our gut, send blood sugar haywire, and cause more inflammation than we can handle. And with all of them, we return to asking our body what it needs, like a sweater when it’s cold, or sugar to ease PMS. Your body knows!
So, those five foods? Wheat (& oats), dairy, peanuts, refined sugar and seed oils. Interestingly these are the biggest food industries we have nowadays, the most overgrown, processed, added to, and perhaps as a result, most unrecognisable to our body. They’re also the most added to processed and convenience foods, and if we think about most of our go tos, most of our foods!
Try a sugar intervention and get your own data on you when eliminating these foods. Otherwise, there’s so much info out there, overwhelm is inevitable. Start with Weston A Price book ‘Nutrition and Physical Degeneration’ which was actually written in the 1920s and is not only still relevant today, it’s maybe more so. Otherwise, and I’ll keep updating these links, have a look thru these:
Wheat and how it affects blood sugar regulation
5 foods that irritate the gut
