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To Eat Healthfully for Life, Eat with Your Principles
The only lifelong solution to our health woes
If you’ve ever looked up a dieting trend, you’ve probably fallen into an endless black hole back-and-forth discussion of robot questions and robot answers, on how to best adopt a healthy lifestyle. Frequently, discussions that look like this:
What time is the best time for us to eat?
— You should eat when your body is at peak metabolic activity and this happens when you have at least micro-fasted for 12 hours the day before. An ancient nomadic civilization in Central Asia does this thing where they eat at 2pm midday, because this is when your body releases the hormone…
Should I eliminate sugar from my diet?
— Of course! Sugar is so bad for you and causes cancer, diabetes, and totally messes up your adrenal hormones. A tablespoon of sugar is like a tablespoon of poison, and it is literally killing you slowly when you eat it. Here, just look at this study done on rats who were fed sugar every day for 6 months…
These can be interesting questions and findings, but I have yet to meet a healthy old person who has lived by and recommended this kind of lifestyle. None of my grandparents eat like this, and neither my friend’s grandparents. Instead, the majority…
