April 11, 2015, a Saturday: I sat down to read my beloved Wallstreet Journal weekend edition. There is a book review about Diets called “The Best Diet Is Delicious” by Mark Schatzker. It is one of the best diet articles I have read for a long time. The book is talking about a study from 1939, which blew me away – I was so impressed that I shared it on my Radio Show last Friday 07/24/2015 with the to topic “America needs to change its food habits”:
“….But perhaps the most striking proof of such nutritional wisdom comes from a 1939 study in which a group of toddlers were put on charge of feeding themselves. They were offered 34 nutritionally diverse whole foods, including water, potatoes, beef, bone jelly, carrots, chicken, grains,bananas and milk. What each child ate, and how much, was entirely up to them.
The results were astonishing: instead of binging on the sweet foods, the toddlers were drawn to the foods that best nourished them. They ate more protein during growth spurts and more carbs and fat during periods of peak activity. After an outbreak of mononucleosis, curiously, they consumed more raw beef, carrots and beets. One child with a severe Vitamin D deficiency even drank cod liver oil of his own volition until he was cured. By the end of the experiment, one doctor was so impressed with the toddlers’ health that he described them as ” the finest group of specimen” he’d ever seen in their age group.
These toddlers knew nothing about carbs, fat or gluten. They just ate what tasted good to them.”
The body has the ability to let us know what it needs and when. We have to learn again to listen to the signs. Try yourself for 4 weeks and forget the scale. You only buy fresh food and you need to prepare it for yourself and watch what happens. And exercise 5-6 times a week like Power Walking, Aerobics and Weights. There is a surprise coming…..you will lose weight, you will feel energized and you will not go back to garbage what you ate before!
Yours
Conny