I wonder how many people struggling with the after-lunch and after-dinner "blues. " By the "Blues" I believe that to be the crash after the meal that hits you like a freight train and send you drool the candy jar and coffee pot in a position to make it the rest of the way through the day.
Most people think that this decline is normal in energy levels and only a part of our hectic day. And it was normal for me. But honestly, after dealing with this problem for untold years, I have to the point that I dreaded lunch every day. It seemed that no matter what I eat for lunch, even a 100% raw lunch, I was almost unconscious with brain fog and drowsiness in one and a half hours. It was so embarrassing and uncomfortable. God forbid that I have to finish an important task or attend meeting after lunch have. My afternoons would be so wasted the feeling when I tried to keep my eyes open and get my mind the realignment. And forget it if I had a lot of carbs with my meal! I might also check out the rest of the day.
Do I have diabetes ?.... NO
Do I have hypoglycemia ?.... NO
So why all the complications? ... It's called insulin sensitivity.
The increase in blood sugar after a meal directly corresponds to the amount of carbohydrates consumed and absorbed during the meal. The more carbohydrates included, go to the higher blood sugar. The first 30 to 45 minutes after large meals - this is when blood sugars are at the highest levels of the day and cause significant damage. And live for millions of peoples with type 2 diabetes, this is the time window that must be carefully monitored.
Eating healthy nutritious food simple and easy!
A few months ago, I returned to the "working world" as I call it. After 14 years stay at home and care for a family and home schooling, I have all 5 of my children in public schools and landed a job outside the home.
In my office of 6 people, it was not long until I find out that I was the odd man when healthy eating nutritious foods. That I was not much surprised, since this is usually the case in my family and church group also.
Just about every day I bring my lunch from home and sometimes even prepare and cook it in our small kitchen at work, I get the same old question "What is it?". The question is, of course, with a look of disgust almost total.
My snacks consist of fruits, vegetables, nuts and the like. I eat about every 2 hours, which really makes them all crazy. Plus, I killed a half gallon jug full of water to, so remember that I drink all day. Now, all this is artificial, mind you. It's just me, that's developed over the years by the integration of new, healthy habits to my lifestyle.
I was thoughtful the other day that it's a novel idea, an abundance of healthy snacks in the office that people could choose from to have. They know how to keep these providers machines heaped full, because people sit there on their rumps all day in their chairs at their desks "need" sugar, caffeine (to the max), NutraSweet, MSG, artificial color-flavor, love etc. ..Why is there not a provider with an alternative?
Well, no sooner had I thought of this when I found out that there is indeed such a dealer.
You absolutely must go, must and look at my new friends ...http://www.thefruitguys.com/
Get this ... they provide a fresh fruit crate each week nationwide at home and in offices. They get their fruit from locations in your area and the fruit you get only 3 days before from the farm!There are 3 different packed boxes to choose from. The prices are affordable and your office people can finally an alternative to the junk that surrounds them.
You are probably thinking, "Yes, but my office folk actually choose the good stuff?"I know I was a little skeptical. However, I had delivered a deluxe box to my office. When it arrived, we just happen to have a meeting in our facility, which had just been released.Let me tell you, I was shocked beyond words, these people want to see a piece of fruit and one to save for the next day! They went "bananas" over the fruit Guys. I was so proud and happy. I almost wanted to cry ... "Wait, save me!". But I sat back and smiled with great satisfaction when I work the power of suggestion to the cause of the food looked.
The quality and variety of the fruit they sent me I was just blown away. Not a bad piece of fruit in the crowd. There were different types of apples, pears, oranges. There was even exotic fruit type that I never tried. Oh, I was in heaven!
Eating Healthy Nutritious Food Asks: What's So Bad About MSG?
I asked, ". Why is that I do not know a good choice I make, but I do not care I want it!" And I would, of course, choose the "bad" things. I think this proves that knowing what to do, and doing it are two different things ... and just to know the information is not enough to make us of the old, familiar foods, keep us long pants by little.
So what is the drive that takes us back to the proverbial abyss of bad eating habits?
I honestly think our taste buds to newly qualified (for lack of a better word). And there are certain ingredients that manufacturers deliberately in food to keep you coming back for more.
One of them is MSG.I remember hearing this ingredient as a teenager. We thought the Chinese restaurants were the only ones to use it. I thought, "Well, I do not eat a whole bunch of Chinese, so I guess eating it once in a while will not kill me!"I think that might be true, if Chinese food was the only place you could find MSG.
But I would like to ask us all to the truth about this ingredient, which we call "flavor enhancers" look. Since the FDA continued to vouch for their safety, scientists have known that MSG causes obesity since the 1960s! MSG makes you want to represent more of what it's put in or on.
MSG is an excitotoxin, so it excites your cells over the point of damage, as a poison and the creation of apparent "explosion" in the cells of the brain does. The cells are rapidly after consumption of MSG ... not slowly damaged over a long period of time. MSG has multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's and Lou Gherig's Disease associated with.
The second part of the equation is that MSG can literally hidden in food labels under names like broth, casein, hydrolyzed, autolyzed, and more that it is extremely difficult to identify.
It is clearly not worth a few bites of delicious junk food to give your body the green light for visceral fat, the most dangerous kind, that your organs and increases the risk of heart attack, stroke, insomnia, diabetes type 2 and surrounds generate much more.
But that is exactly what we do when we foods contain MSG eat. Eliminating MSG from your diet is a wise choice for everyone, including pregnant women. A simple step to eliminate MSG is sticking with natural, unprocessed foods.
And if you want to eat processed foods are to find the many hidden names for MSG on food labels. They include (but are far from limited to):
- GelatinHydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP)
- Yeast extract
- Malting barley
- Rice syrup or brown rice syrup
Time to re-train our taste buds, our minds and our bodies! Does that mean you or I should be aware of every bite we consume paranoid? Absolutely not! Just be aware and make the healthiest choice you can, if you can.
