I'm thinking on what to write. My main intention is to arrange words to get your attention, excite you and give you something of value.
One of the subjects that I would like to write is AI (artificial intelligence), what walls say about our nature (yes, the walls in your house), what science knows about procrastination, why I decided to upgrade my two pairs of shoes to nine. But I decided after serious consideration than this article is going to be about food. Yes, the value that you are going to get from this article is: Eat better, fewer carbs, more fats.
My small quest to find better eating habits started when I decided to read 4 books about food: "In defense of food", "Good Calories, Bad Calories", "The Dorito Effect" and "Grain Brain".
If you want to read one of those books, please read "In Defense of Food" I think is the best of those books and is the one that I enjoy it the most.
There is a lot of contradictory information and a lot of research that as changed with the pass of time. Unfortunately, nobody told us that some things are different than we tough.
For example, the average western diet is 2/3 of wheat, corn, rice, and soy. These grains push other important food out of our plates, this affects our weight, our immune system, and overall health.
When we drink soda or other sugary drinks our body does not recognize that we are consuming energy in the form of calories, the body thinks that is plain water.
The authors recommend that we stop consuming food that is not natural enough, for example, food that our ancestor would not recognize as such. Cakes, pasta, cookies, soda, candy and other food that have unpronounceable ingredients that you don´t know what they are and have more than five of them.
They especially talk about minimizing the number of carbs that we eat, that fats, cholesterol are not as bad as it was said in the past, in fact in many cases is healthy, the important words are moderation and variety.
We should start eating using the food pyramid but upside down.
There is a lot to write about diet, history, the good, the bad and the ugly about nutrition. The most important thing to do is stay informed and eat what you Grandma would recognize as food, always in moderation.