In our quest for the healthier body, we often find many road-blocks, not least of which is cardboard-tasting “health food”, never mind the expense! While we go on sometimes about this brick wall we have to overcome, we need to step aside a little and consider whether we are be unrealistic to ourselves. The thing to remember is that with modern living, we lean more and more towards a dependence on processed foods. This is no surprise to any of us, of course. Still we would do well to realise that the taste of our processed food is part of the reason we need it so much. Adding large amounts of sugar, salt and additives like MSG actually trains our taste-buds to expect what are really “aggressive” levels of taste. If we cannot abide a cup of coffee or tea without sugar or artificial sweeteners; If we greatly prefer processed to “whole” meats(sausages and hot dogs vs. Steak for example); If we forgo fruit in favour of a cherry pie: These are signs that we are relying on unnatural and frankly unrealistic taste expectations. So when we encounter food without sweeteners, artificial or not, they fall short of our taste expectations. If this is you, as it was for me, and I expect for many of us out there, realise we can do something about it! Practically, we start with reducing the amount of sugar and salt we putinto our food, we begin to reduce the foods that have salt and sugar and additives put into them. So, a little less sugar in our tea and coffee, a steak(not too big) instead of a sausage or hot dog. Add herbs and seasoning to meat and fish(had some seasoned grilled fish lately?). Try some plain chocolate over milk chocolate for a change; where we have the choice, some fruit instead of pie(maybe start off with fruit and a little piece of pie!). Drink more water, more unsweetened ice tea - and less sodas. If we can do this, we begin to re-educate our taste-buds(bet you heard that before), and as we eat more natural-flavour food, we very smoothly and quickly move away from strange prepared “health” alternatives(some of them have scary amounts of additives like HFCS and salt to add taste!). For More Great techniques and tricks To get You Lean Abs Go Here Doing this, a little at a time, will get us back to enjoying how food is meant to taste, we will enjoy it more, and it will be better for us. A triple-whammy? 6 Comments |
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