Had a VERY important list. A list… that as I read it… I kept saying…. “Yeah!!!” ‘Holy Cow… uh huh!” “I KNEW IT!” The best part of that page, was the previous one that was titled…
“Overweight… eating away the pounds”. I’ve had this book for about 2 years now… and this was the first time I’ve ever noticed that page. I love this book. It’s easy to read, and big and juicy… and makes me smarter the more I read it…
But the most interesting part of this “overweight” section was the study done at the University of Australia where the scientists rated foods that keep us fuller, longer. Any food that did kept hunger at bay for a good long time, was rated over 100, and foods that make us more hungry, more often, were rated under 100.
Here’s the List…
Potatoes 323… fish 225…oatmeal 209… oranges 202… beans 168…grapes 162… whole grain bread 154… eggs 150… brown rice 132… see a pattern? All the good stuff… STAYS WITH US…
Here are the numbers for “other” “foods”…
Ice cream 96… candy bar 70…doughnut 68…cake 65… peanuts 84… chips 91… see another trend? The higher fat the food, the LESS SATISFYING it is.
Want to know what the over 100 foods have in common? FIBER… I can’t say enough how FIBER is the key to all weight loss, less cancer, less stress, less hemorrhoids, less weight, less of everything bad. Add a little bit of Olive Oil to the fiber or some flax seed meal, or wheat germ… and then all kinds of miracles happen within our bodies to help carry the vitamins and amino acids to the place within us that will most benefit from them…
The beautiful thing about my new way of eating… is the plethora foods I am eating every day. “DIEt’s” used to tell us to EAT LESS, DON’T EAT THAT, STAY AWAY FROM ALL FAT, NO… YOU CAN’T HAVE A NICE STEAK FOR A MEAL!… and all that junk… and we all know now that’s just all WRONG!
What matters is HOW we eat the food, WHEN we eat the food, AND CHOOSE WISELY the types of foods we eat. Yes, Cheetos and Doritos are going to make us fat… even eating a small amount… why? BECAUSE THEY DON’T SATIATE our hunger centers of our brains… they have so many chemicals in them that aren’t food, it CHANGES our brain signals to EAT MORE OF THEM… and then creates a pleasure center ‘memory’ of that food, and then we buy them over, and over, and over… ‘BECAUSE THEY TASTE GOOD” Blueberries taste good too… eat them by the BUCKET! I know… I know… Doritos cost less… don’t even get me started… medical bills are expensive too, so are heart and liver transplants… blueberries cost WAAAAAY less.
Eat grapes instead of chips….. eat watermelon instead of crackers……. eat saute’d veggies instead of a bowl of sugary cereal……. eat a sandwich with dark, whole grain bread and roasted red peppers, balsamic dressing, lettuce, cucumber slices, lean meat, mustard and pickles…. instead of a greasy, white bunned, full fat, mystery meat burger…
Eat your biggest meal, of the VAST ARRAY of gorgeous colored food EARLY IN YOUR DAY… before 4 p.m… and eat fruit until it’s coming out of your ears if you get hungry at night…
Do I sound like I’m preaching? yeah? GOOD! I am! I love you. I love me. I think we all deserve better than what we are being dished up. Our children deserve the benefit of our knowledge and our ability to make good food choices in our markets. Remember… every time we stand at the check out counter at the store, we are voting and telling our stores what to stock on the shelves… With each pass of the chips, and donuts, and sugary drinks, that makes that little “beep” sound when it crosses the scanner, we are letting our store know that we either choose the crap or the good stuff…
From the looks of most grocery stores… we have been voting so badly… for so long… that the stores are now FULL to the BRIM with brightly colored bags of heart attacks and strokes… boxes of diabetes, and canisters of fat and water retention.
We need to start pulling a lot of bags of this… across that scanner… so the stores will purchase and require the BEST and PESTICIDE free living food for all of us to eat… and be able to pay for.
Glad you posited this info about the Australian study.. I had read it too not sure where.. but thoroughly seeing it here as well.
ReplyDeleteAmen about the pesticide free stuff too.
You put a lot of work into this blog and that is what makes it a pleasure to read