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You visit the doctor regularly to maintain your health. That’s certainly smart. Before your next appointment, however, consider this: when was the last time your doctor asked about your diet?
Although physicians are perfectly aware of the connection between our health and the food we put into our body, this is a question they rarely, if ever, pose. They appear to be more interested in prescribing medications than treating and preventing health problems in a more natural and effective way.
This is especially disconcerting as more and more people suffer from a wheat sensitivity, allergy, or celiac disease. The problem with wheat is caused by gluten, one of the proteins found in modern-day wheat. It can damage the small intestine and make digesting wheat difficult or impossible. It can cause fatigue, nausea, diarrhea, and other, more serious discomforts, such as damaging the small intestine. Celiac disease is serious, and physicians need to start paying attention.
Processed wheat, which is found everywhere, isn’t healthy for anyone. For people with celiac disease, it can be a daily nightmare. That is why going gluten-free is becoming increasingly popular. People are learning the effects of modern wheat and are starting to take control of their own health.
For people who are sensitive or allergic to wheat, going gluten-free can be life-changing. It can help them rid the body of irritating toxins and help them function normally again. For others, who are not gluten-sensitive, abstaining from gluten is a way of eating healthier, feeling better, and having more energy.
Food matters. What we consume is critical to our health. The fact is, gluten adds little to our lives but can cause considerable damage. Going gluten-free is a return to eating in a way that promotes optimum health and wellbeing. For anyone who believes that we have been eating wheat for thousands of years without a problem, you will soon learn why that is incorrect.
Even for those who are not suffering from celiac disease or wheat sensitivity, a gluten-free diet can be prevention against disease. Gluten is known to cause serious inflammations, and inflammation can increase the risk of arthritis and coronary diseases.
Using food to prevent the onset of these problems enables us to enjoy a healthier lifestyle. This makes far more sense than treating diseases with medications that can have harmful side effects.
Gluten is all around us, which can make going gluten-free quite a challenge. With so many food items made of wheat, barley, or rye, all of which contain gluten, and with more food products containing hidden wheat, the idea of eating gluten-free may seem like deprivation. Quite the contrary. You can still eat the cookies, cakes, and pasta you love. You will simply be preparing them differently.
If you are suffering from celiac disease, going gluten-free is a must. But other intestinal issues, such as diarrhea and irritable bowel syndrome have also been relieved with a gluten-free diet.
Researchers are linking more and more gastrointestinal problems with gluten.
Anyone who believes that gluten-free is just a modern phase is half- right. It is indeed something new and modern. But it is not a phase. An increasing number of people are suffering from the effects of modern wheat and refined flour.
The degree can vary – from a bit of wheat sensitivity to greater intolerance to celiac disease, which is the inability to process any amount of wheat due to problems in the small intestines. Especially in the case of celiac disease, the digestive system views gluten as invaders and reacts accordingly. As it tries to attack these toxins, the lining of the gut itself can become damaged, resulting in leaks, inflammation, and other problems. Serious gastrointestinal problems are the result.
When you begin to shop gluten-free, it can be a bit confusing and overwhelming. You might panic about missing out on your favorite meals. It may seem that there is nothing for you to eat. You’ll quickly find, however, that is not the case.
Finding delicious foods that are gluten-free is easier than you think. You are likely to find a few tasty food options that you haven’t considered. Once you know what to watch out for, you’ll master the supermarket aisle like a gluten pro.
Besides, if one or more members of your family is gluten-intolerant while the rest are able to eat wheat, don’t prepare separate meals.
Gluten-free meals are NOT a punishment, and anyone suffering from celiac disease or gluten intolerance should not be made to feel guilty or different. Omitting gluten from your diet is eating healthy, and that is something your entire family should be doing.
Your trip to the market starts with a list. Walking up and down the aisles can lead to serious temptations. Supermarkets are deliberately designed to tempt you and lure you into buying things you don’t need. You don’t want to roam randomly. Before you leave the house, before you even create your shopping list, plan your meals.
Don’t approach meal-planning negatively, as in, “Oh, I can’t eat pasta … bread … cookies.” Eating gluten-free is not about subtracting and deprivation. It’s all about eating better. Plan the meals you enjoy and think in terms of substitutions. How can you improve this recipe? For example, if you want to prepare pasta, do so. Simply plan on using zoodles (zucchini noodles) or gluten-free pasta in your preparation.
Feel like baking some cookies for the kids? All you need to do is substitute wheat-free flour in your recipe. We’ll discuss substitution later in this book. One or two gluten-free cookbooks will provide you with inspiration and help you understand how delicious gluten-free meals can be. They are an excellent investment.
Think in terms of variety. The greater the variety of food you eat, the more nutrition you consume. And don’t forget about herbs and spices, most of which are quite nutrient-packed. Shopping gluten- free will expand your food world.
There are many places to purchase gluten-free products. (Aren’t you lucky!). There are the around-every-corner supermarkets, specialty stores, health food stores, outdoor farmers markets, and online. By all means, make yourself available to all of these options. However, make the supermarket your main shopping place. There are reasons for that.
First, gluten-free is catching on, and most markets now carry gluten-free products or have an entire gluten-free aisle. The deli section is likely to offer a number of gluten-free items. By shopping at the regular market, you won’t feel that you are shopping “differently,” and that is psychologically important. You’re not different, you’re just smart.
Any farmer’s market, of course, is a treasure trove of healthy produce, so you definitely want to be there whenever possible. As for specialty health food stores and online shopping, keep that in reserve as a valuable last resort for any product you can’t find in stores.
Now that you’ve planned your meals, you are ready to create your shopping list. Keep in mind that prepared and pre-packaged foods frequently have hidden sugars and gluten. If you are unsure, contact the manufacturer for more details. In addition to bringing your shopping list, you should also have a gluten-free food/ingredient list for interpreting difficult labels.
We recommend that if possible, you shop without young children, whose sticky little fingers invariably reach for chocolate, cookies, and other snacks with abandon. You need to maintain control of the shopping situation.
Great for cookies and baking.
Gluten-free cooking offers you lots of choices, and you should experiment to see which flour works best for you. Flours made from coconut or almond can lend a delightful flavor to your baked goods.
A word of caution: When flours are displayed in bulk, there can be some cross-contamination when a customer uses the same scooper to bag gluten and non-gluten types of flours. If that is a serious concern, get your gluten-free flour from a market or a health food store that has a separate gluten-free section, or order through the internet.
You and your cart, which is getting pretty full, have made it to the dairy section. Notice that you are still wandering the perimeter of the market instead of roaming the aisles.
Milk and dairy do not contain gluten but be careful of additives. Yogurts and ice cream can contain all types of flavoring, so read the labels carefully. And, as previously stated, any item labeled “diet” or “low fat” is likely to contain gluten fillers.
If you’re in search of snacks, you are likely to end up in one of the aisles. Check ingredient labels carefully. As an alternative, prepare your own tasty snack by mixing gluten-free granola with chopped nuts or dried fruits.
When you arrive at the meat and fish section, you are in a gluten-free zone, except for the prepared and coated meats, which you will ignore. Focus on lean meats and fish to prepare tasty and healthy meals. I would keep it simple and focus on meats, fish, and vegetables as your main food sources.
I have been intermittent fasting for the past few years and it has really helped me become…
Hence the reason I wrote the?Simple Intermittent Fasting Journal?🙂
Some myths of Intermittent Fasting:
I hope this helps clarify some myths/questions regarding fasting.
The bottom line is Fasting is one of the most ancient and widespread healing traditions in the world.?
If you have any question let me know or check out the?Simple Intermittent Fasting Journal?to learn more…
Have a great day!
-Brian
1?Am J Clin Nutr.?2000 Jun;71(6):1511-5.
If not, here is a crash course on what to look for so you are prepared for your next store visit!!
In a perfect world, we all would buy foods without labels (i.e. fresh organic?veggies, fruits, wild fish, poultry and grass fed meats) but I know this is unrealistic for most people.
So I came up with some QUICK TIPS to help you be an expert LABEL READER 🙂
There you go?Get Lean Club!!? Take these tips and apply them to your every day life!
But remember the best foods are the ones that don’t require a label!
Have a great weekend!!
-Brian
P.S. ?If you are looking to jump start your weight loss and health goals? ?Check out my?Intermittent Fasting Journal?to help you reach your goals!
P.S.S. Join?The Get Lean Club?to get your questions answered and be part of our community!!
Keto is a hot word that gets thrown around quite a bit!!?Don’t let it confuse you!!
The whole idea of the?keto diet?is to eat and drink fat so your body burns FAT as it’s primary fuel.?
Currently, your body is burning sugar in your bloodstream for its energy requirements.?You get this sugar by loading up on foods that are?rich in carbohydrates such as:
All these starchy foods pump a tremendous amount of carbohydrates in your system. The problem with that is when your body detects carbohydrates, it starts to produce insulin.
Insulin is a?hormone?made by the pancreas that allows your body to use?sugar?(glucose) from carbohydrates in the food that you eat for energy or to store glucose for future use.
When you adopt the?keto diet, you switch over from burning sugar to burning fat.?This is a big deal, because when your body burns sugar due to insulin, you’re not burning fat.?This is an either-or proposition. Either your body is burning sugar, or it isn’t.?
If you always use sugar as your primary energy source that nasty spare tire that you have been lugging around for many years will remain there!
When you eat fat and less sugar or carbs, your body begins to burn fat for fuel and you get slimmer, lighter, and better looking. What’s not to love?
So Bottom Line?- Avoid those carb rich?foods I mentioned above?and?start implementing intermittent fasting in order to gradually get your body to use it’s own FAT as it’s main energy source.?It takes time but that is why I am?here for you?and I created?The Simple Intermittent Fasting Journal?for you to use!
Have a great weekend!!
– Brian
Well, it’s just another way that big food companies want us to think and it’s the complete opposite.
To prove my point, varnish, which is what carpenters use to finish wood, is made from vegetable oils!? These oils are mainly composed of?Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids.? PUFAs react with oxygen in the air to?help polymerize?the varnish into?a nice hard coating that helps preserve the wood.?1
Sounds appetizing!!
Varnish is good for your floors, but not so good for your arteries, brain or mitochondria.
So a?little bit of Polyunsaturated fats (PUFA) is not a problem for us, we actually need some.? The problem lies in when vegetable oils?get stripped away during the industrial refining of sunflower and other vegetable oils.??The refining process not only strips away antioxidants, it makes PUFAs toxic by exposing them to heat, pressure, metals and bleaching agents.?1
Nature does not make bad fats, factories do.
Products with vegetable oil are best avoided whenever possible.? Good luck because?you can find them in almost everything!
Below is a good rule of thumb regarding which fats and oils to avoid and buy:
Canola, Corn, Cottonseed, Soy, Sunflower, Safflower, Grapeseed, Rice bran.
ALSO TOXIC:?Refined Palm oil. (It?s not very high in PUFAs, but the refining is often more intense).
PLUS: Anything that says?hydrogenated?because it?s going to start with one of the above and process it further to generate trans fats.
Avocado oil, Butter, Coconut Oil, Duck Fat, Ghee, Lard, Olive oil, Peanut oil, Tallow, Sesame oil, Flax seed oil, Walnut oil, Almond oil, Macadamia nut oil
Also: Anything that says?cold pressed and unrefined.?It must say?unrefined!?If it says cold pressed?but is refined, it?s no good.
Almond oil, Avocado oil, Butter, Coconut, Duck Fat, Ghee, Lard, Macadamia nut oil, ?Peanut oil, Tallow
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source:?https://drcate.com/list-of-good-fats-and-oils-versus-bad/
**When you go out to dinner ask what they are using to cook your food in and make sure they use the good ones above in order to avoid eating vegetable oil.
Hopefully this info will help prepare you when reading labels, cooking and going out to eat as well!
Have a great weekend!
– Brian
1?https://drcate.com/list-of-good-fats-and-oils-versus-bad/
Well, this common advice for the most part is wrong!!
The vast majority of us don?t need to eat low-salt diets. In fact, for most of us, more salt would be better for our health, rather than less.?
Eating more salt can help protect you from a host of ailments, including insulin resistance, diabetes, and even heart disease.
Sodium deficiency may also cause any of the following symptoms (1);
Bias, bad research and billions of dollars resulted in the demonetization of both salt and fat (mentioned?last article) over the years.??Meanwhile, many of the real contributors to modern diseases (diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity…etc…) are from?overuse of refined carbohydrates and sugar?not SALT.
In?The Salt Fix, Dr.?James DiNicolantonio, Pharm.D?wants us to realize that salt plays a critical role when dealing with many modern diseases from sugar cravings to heart disease.?
“Most people are put on this low-salt diet and start having all these symptoms like muscle fatigue, muscle spasms, cramps and heart palpitations. They said their doctors ordered them to not add salt to their food because they have high blood pressure. Yet they were suffering from all these new symptoms ? symptoms of salt deficiency.? ?Truth is these people were severely dehydrated. They had low sodium levels in their blood. Within a few days of just upping their salt intake, all of these symptoms went away. Right there, I knew that this low salt advice was just not panning out in the real world.” Dr. James
Dr. DiNicolantonio, taps into decades of research and he illustrates ways in which salt could actually be a solution to many widespread conditions.?(here are some excerpts from the book)
What can you do to enhance your relationship with salt?**
I hope this helps change your views on salt and how it has been misconstrued through the years!
Let me know if you have any questions.
Have a great weekend!
Brian
briangryn.com
**“A few of us should be concerned about consuming and retaining too much salt, such as people who have the following conditions: Hyperaldosteronism; Cushing?s disease; Liddle syndrome. These folks should monitor and possibly limit their salt intake because they may be especially sensitive to the negative effects of sodium on their blood pressure. But even for these individuals, salt isn?t the main issue; if you treat the underlying disease effectively, you can treat the excessive salt retention.” Dr. James
Cut your calories
Eat low fat foods and
Graze all day (eat 6-7 meals)
Well, I am here to tell you that that?the diet you were told to eat for the last 50 years was WRONG and does NOTHING TO CONTROL YOUR HUNGER!!??You did not fail, the diet failed you.
So the question to answer is?-?
Before I answer that let’s first address what’s wrong with the standard dietary advice you have been told all these years…
So in order to control hunger let’s do the exact opposite of what you have been told…
One more point:?An important hormone to be aware of is ghrelin – the ?hunger hormone? because it turns on our appetites, so you want to lower it.? Eating all the time does not turn off hunger and lower ghrelin.? The answer to turning down ghrelin is the opposite ? fasting.??Curious to learn more about your hunger hormone Ghrelin?? Click?here…
Bottom line:??Eliminate processed junk foods, eat satisfying meals (fats / grass fed protein) and use?intermittent fasting?to help regulate the hormones that control your appetite.?
Let me know if you have any questions.
Have a great weekend!!
– Brian
briangryn.com
P.S. – Recent Testimonial from Matt (client I worked with) who lost 20 pounds in 3 months!
1? https://idmprogram.com/controlling-hunger-part-2/
No matter how active you are?recovery?could be as important as the activities that you do!??It is something I take pretty seriously with my body and I want to touch on some old and new ways that can help you become your best self.
For the most part foam rollers (myofascial release), nutrient timing, rest and good?sleep hygiene?will do the job when it comes to recovery.?But if you are looking for alternative ways to recover faster and feel better.?Here are 6 recovery strategies that could work for you…
Most importantly, listen to your body and find a recovery practice that will help you increase the quality of your workouts, recover faster and hopefully avoid injury!
Have a great day!
Brian
P.S.?Your digestive organs need to recover as well!?Just another reason to start using the?Simple Intermittent Fasting Journal!!
Do you find this happening with your body??I have noticed this with my own body.
I am a pretty active weight lifter and love to golf but I am noticing now that my main goal is to avoid pain/injury?as much as possible.??Because there is nothing worse than having to take weeks off from activities we love!
So I am assuming most of you (members of?The Get Lean Club) can relate with this?!?
Well, I might have a solution that has nothing to do with getting shots, surgery or anything invasive.
Have you heard of Nightshades?
Nightshades are members of an enormous family of flowering plants. The ones that concern us in the Western diet mainly include:
It?s extremely easy to overdose on nightshades in our Western culture.?1
If you suffer from any of the list below these might be caused by consuming too many nightshades:
*For those of you who have tried ?everything? for your arthritis pain, and nothing has worked but haven?t tried to avoid nightshades, it?s something you should do.
Here are some ways to find out whether nightshades are causing your medical problems?
What should you eat instead of Nightshades??2
To conclude:
Clearly, nightshade vegetables are?not?universally dangerous.?Some people are more sensitive to them than others. Many of them have strong health benefits to offer the body.??However,?if you are suffering from symptoms that could be tied to nightshade sensitivity, taking the time to eliminate them from your diet and give your body a chance to recover might save a lifetime of pain and discomfort.?2
Have a great rest of the week!
To a healthier you,
Brian
1?https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/food-features/nightshades/
2?https://draxe.com/nightshade-vegetables/
Most people think?their abs will suddenly appear doing sit ups/crunches!!?Not so much…
How about doing cardio?! ?That won’t help much either.
Don’t get me wrong exercise (especially high intensity resistant training)?has many benefits -?
But in order to help get that six pack or show some abs it’s 80%…
The good news is as a member of?The Get Lean Club?and if you are reading my emails or have committed to?The Simple Intermittent Fasting Journal?you understand the importance of both when you eat and what you eat.
Well, here are some quick tips as we approach the warmer weather!!
If this list is overwhelming pick one thing and stick to it until it becomes a habit and then move on to the next one.
It ‘s not going to happen overnight but taking these steps will get you on your way!
I am offering?FREE 15 minute consultations?to discuss your health goals and how we can work together to get you there!
Have a great Spring Break and let’s get you ready for summer!!
To a healthier you,
Brian