Month: January 2020

Almost everyone loves eating deserts. I know I do! However the timing of the consuming the desert may hold the key to not adding additional pounds.

Did you notice that after a dinner or lunch when we feel full we are surprised by the desert we have totally forgotten about. Hard to turn down right? I know I always try to justify by saying I left some space for desert. In reality when I am busy eating my mains I don’t say to myself I am leaving space for the desert and thus eat less main meal. It never happens.

This means that I am consuming excessive calories which is a sure way to gain weight. A trick I use is to eat my deserts about 30 minutes before my main meal. This means it does not spoil my appetite for my main meal and I tend to eat less of the main meal as I am already partially full. Net result less calorie intake and sure to prevent the desert weight gain.

Happy deserting 🙂

This is similar to margarine being healthier than butter myth. Margarine is been found to be just the opposite. Toxic and even cancer causing. People have been going in droves to eat butter and more natural produce,

The idea of waking up next to a fridge full of ready processed food instead of having to hunt and gather it is a relatively new one. Our ancestor did not have this luxury available and biologically and scientifically we are not build to have continuous easy to obtain meals. In fact the the trend is less is more and the take up of intermittent fasting. So skipping breakfast which the media tells us is the most important meal in the day may not be so bad to skip once in a while.

Skipping breakfast is the one of the easiest intermittent fasting to do. We then have out lunch being the main meal. Benefit is that intermittent fasting not only reduces our net caloric intake in resulting in weight loss. Intermittent fasting is also proven to an increase lifespan.

In the great depression the average lifespan increased more than 6 years or 10% in those days. A Harvard research confirms the link between reduced caloric intake such as intermittent fasting results in longer life ( https://newatlas.com/fasting-increase-lifespan-mitochondria-harvard/52058/ ).