Hello visitors, this will be the first post of an installment of weekly health tips posted on our blog. These weekly tips are provided as basic stepping stones to help you achieve optimal health in America’s current toxic environment. Our goals as physicians and owners of this website are to promote your health and wellness. We stand by these suggestions and follow them ourselves. We are confident they will help you maintain a much healthier weight and also increase your overall sense of well-being.
This week’s tips will be short and sweet. In a sea of dietary advice, I will distill for you the foods and calories you should absolutely avoid as a foundational cornerstone. The list is surprisingly short and is follows.
1. Avoid all sweetened carbonated beverages, fruit juice, and ALL artificially sweetened beverages. Drink plain water, black coffee, and unsweet tea as your foundation.
2. Avoid all wheat containing products, and absolutely avoid all foods that contain refined white flour.
3. Avoid all products that contain processed polyunsaturated fatty acids ie soybean oil, canola oil, corn oil, and other vegetable oil. If the oil you are eating came from a refinery where it had to be extracted from seeds and vegetables it is not meant to be consumed in large quantities by human beings period. Humans never ate this kind fat until the 1950’s and they started to showed up in everything by the 1980’s. The correlation of an increase in obesity, insulin resistance, and heart disease and the massive volume of these new fats in our diet is no coincidence. Just watch a movie from the early 1980’s and look at all the extras in crowd scenes and compare them extras in crowd scenes in movies today. It will blow your mind.
4. Avoid all processed foods that come from a box, they are devoid of adequate nutrition and almost always contain all the toxic nutrients described above.
5. What should I eat then? Eat whole, real, unprocessed food found along the periphery of the grocery stores.
Well that sums up this week’s tips on how to maximize your health. There will be future posts that cover this in more detail. Also come back for tips on optimal exercise programs, skin care, psychological well-being, and recommended supplements.
Ryan T Rogers, MD