I bear in mind at some point somebody stated that the true luxurious is having the ability to take a lunch break at residence. I’d add that a terrific luxurious can also be having the time to decide on, prepare dinner and put together meals as and once we need.
Two essential points due to this fact bounce to the attention, on condition that the frenzy reigns in our days:
HOW DO WE EAT? … and above all, WHAT DO WE EAT?
That ofEnergy provide it’s a topic extra debated than ever, increasingly more. And absolutely the fact appears increasingly more distant. Every one proposes his personal recipes, his personal theses … and for us, attentive to our well being, all that continues to be is to seek out “our” method to Welfare, guided by widespread sense and information. As soon as once more the principle path is duty in the direction of oneself, one’s physique and one’s well being.

A first vital reflection to do is the next:
We eat an excessive amount of!
Typically, we’re a hyper fed firm. And the issue is that the extra we eat, the extra we’d eat:
“Glucose launched with meals and never used is saved within the type of glycogen within the muscle groups and / or within the liver. What occurs when the glycogen shops within the muscle groups and liver are saturated however there may be nonetheless hyperglycemia? Extra glucose is remodeled into palmitic acid (or asadecanoic acid), a long-chain saturated fats. Palmitic acid binds to a glycerol molecule and kinds a lipoprotein referred to as VLDL (very low density lipoprotein). The liver releases VLDLs in order that the fats they include can be utilized for vitality functions or saved in adipose tissue. Palmitic acid reduces sensitivity to leptin: the hypothalamus, the place the middle of satiety is discovered, now not feels the presence of leptin, doesn’t give us the sense of satiety that follows from ingesting meals. We stay hungry regardless of hyperglycemia and proceed to eat nicely past our wants. Thus: palmitic acid, produced by extra carbohydrates, causes the mind (hypothalamus specifically) to change into insensitive (resistant) to leptin.
Moreover:
– will increase the manufacturing of a P66SHC protein which may injury the beta cells of the pancreas. Since beta cells produce insulin, injury to them can result in diabetes
– inhibits the exercise of the tumor protein P53 (referred to as “the guardian of the genome”) which has the duty of blocking tumors within the bud
– will increase the expression of the P665HC protein in beta cells, with elevated manufacturing of oxygen free radicals, and elevated apoptosis (programmed cell suicide) of beta cells.
When our muscle groups are now not capable of retailer extra glycogen, the muscle fiber cells lose insulin sensitivity. .. (..) … Insulin resistance makes glucose keep longer within the blood, which stimulates additional insulin secretion by the pancreas, in a vicious perverse circle.
An acceptable, metaphorical time period to explain this evolution in insulin resistance of hyperglycemia, when it turns into power, is: preparation for a future metabolic disaster. ”
“Diet from 2020 onwards” Dr. Andrea Grieco
For tradition, definitely not for the precise want of our physique, now we have created the behavior of getting 3 meals a day (breakfast, lunch and dinner) and generally much more, contemplating snacks, the so-called “starvation breakers” and sugary drinks. Not considering that hyperglycemia, stored excessive by overeating and / or usually, if extended over time, brings with it an entire sequence of disasters for our well being. Right this moment, scientific proof confirms that the extra we eat, in amount and frequency, the extra we change into infected and older.

We eat out of boredom, for pleasure, for firm, for dissatisfaction. After we speak about meals, we inevitably additionally speak about emotional nourishment, and all the results that may be linked to this facet. On “unhealthy days”, probably the most nervous and troublesome ones, we regularly discover consolation in a dessert, or in a pizza, or in a glass of wine. All issues our “thoughts” wants greater than our physique.
As a naturopath attentive to the holistic conception of human biology, it isn’t my behavior to clarify distinctions between physique and thoughts, however on this case I do it consciously, to underline the disconnect between what we imagine is sweet for us, and what truly does it.
After we are in a rush, within the confusion of a thousand ideas, what would do us good is to not “distract us” with a sandwich or a chocolate, however possibly take a deep breath and take pleasure in another method (listening to our favourite music, doing a chat with a good friend, hugging a cherished one). We are sometimes prey to our behavioral mechanisms pushed by unconscious forces, whereas we must always enable ourselves the chance to be taught to be extra in charge of ourselves.
We eat badly!
We exceed in carbohydrates and this results in a sequence of adverse penalties for our physique.
“An extreme consumption of carbohydrates pushes the pancreas to an extreme manufacturing of insulin, inflicting a pro-inflammatory state from which well being is progressively and inexorably undermined. It’s not the chronological age that grows that brings with it its load of illnesses, pains, issues of varied organs, as much as power inflammatory, auto-immune, degenerative and tumor illnesses, however the day by day assault we stock out towards it in kind of acutely aware method. The illness mission will be remodeled right into a well being mission … you simply must know find out how to do it ”
“Diet from 2020 onwards” Dr. Andrea Grieco
The dietary day of most individuals develops below the dictatorship of carbohydrates: bread or biscuits or cereals for breakfast, pasta or rice for lunch, pizza for dinner, and so on.
These habits topic the entire organism to a load of stress that may inevitably end in irritation and mobile and extracellular growing older. It should be stated that always the selection falls on carbohydrates merely for comfort: consuming a sandwich or a primary course is probably the most appropriate answer to the rhythms that the day imposes on us. Right here the 2 arguments are intertwined: consuming badly is intently linked to the time we are able to enable ourselves to do it. I usually communicate with individuals who inform me that they’ve lunch in entrance of the PC, or in conferences with prospects, or within the automotive, or between a housekeeping and one other. When as a substitute we must always contemplate the second of the meal even “sacred”. It’s the second during which we provide our organism with the vitamins it wants, whereas as a substitute it usually turns into a chance to gulp down “ballast” that weighs us down mentally and bodily. Digestion is significantly affected by this case, in addition to different issues (gastroesophageal reflux and colitis, for instance).
The temper during which we eat also can affect the onset of those issues. Haste, rigidity, nervousness: they solely negatively have an effect on our biology.

The answer?
From the second we notice we’re rowing towards our well being with our day by day habits, the one factor to do is to start out altering them, one step at a time. If we will not do it alone, we are able to all the time flip to an skilled to accompany us to seek out out what and find out how to eat higher.
Step one will be to offer the fitting worth to the time for supper: cease consuming whereas doing a thousand different issues, maybe on the telephone discussing with anybody. One other vital selection may very well be to chop down on meals; two full meals a day is an excessive amount of usually. We should always: eat much less And qualitatively higher. Those that eat much less stay extra. Lowering the quantity of meals you eat improves life high quality and stretches it.
Clearly, every particular person has their very own wants, their very own tastes and their very own prospects: for these causes it’s troublesome to supply recipes (by no means was the time period extra acceptable 🙂) appropriate for everybody. Everybody wants to seek out their very own method in accordance with sensible wants.
A 3rd piece of recommendation is to cease flooding our physique with sugars (by “sugars” I additionally imply carbohydrates, the latter being complicated sugars); that is how anti-aging and anti inflammatory processes are activated, with the ensuing enchancment of all capabilities.
To conclude, maybe an important factor: thehydration is a necessary a part of vitamin. Consuming a liter and a half / two of water, all the time in small sips, is crucial for all of the organic capabilities of our physique. Even any purification course of, essential for a very good high quality of life, passes by way of an enough consumption of water. Higher to decide on awater with pH 8 or higher, to additionally protect thealkalizing facet.
By ingesting water we care for ourselves. We’re too used to all the time being elsewhere with our heads, in comparison with the place we’re at that second.
“Alkaline dwelling, Joyful dwelling” Dr. Andrea Grieco
And right here is that the easy gesture of ingesting a glass of water or savoring a rigorously chosen meals can change into moments that actually nourish us.
It’s “solely” about studying what is sweet for us and breaking the chains that imprison us in adverse habits to overcome a brand new consuming fashion, removed from tiring and restrictive diets, however stuffed with consciousness that permits us to resolve what is true to eat, how and when.
To flee from little large illnesses and embrace a brand new vitality.
Written by: Manuela Grieco
Naturopath, Life coach, meditation trainer