Healthy Foods

What is healthy foods ?    

So many advertisement claim to be healthy to be consumed. Beware it might not be as healthy as what it looks like. These are 4 main rules about healthy food :

1. Keep it natural

 Healthy food is food that is natural. The simpler and less process, the healthier it did.

As consumers we are often become the victims of unhealthy food advertising by manufacturers of processed foods.
Too many inputs that go on in our brains say that processed foods are healthy foods. Why ? Because manufacturers of processed foods provide huge fund to make you believe that processed foods are healthy foods.

One thing I need to be honest with you is: none of the processed food brand has the right to hold the labels of “as healthy as natural foods”.

In other words, foods that are entitled to wear the label "healthy" never came from any food that has undergone processing from food manufacturers.

Example: meat that is baked directly healthier than meat that has been through any process such as boiled, steamed, blended or anything. Thinking of meat ? Buy the fresh natural one, not a processed sausage. Of course –in the meat case- as long as the meat was served cooked, not raw.
Healthy salads and vegetables are healthier than boiled carrot or corn soup – or even a veggie chips.
Fresh milk is healthier than packed milk and so on and so on. At the end we will have a long list of natural healthy food which comes fresh from your farm.

2. Timing

 Another truth about a healthy food is that it must be consumed on the right time. Note this : not every hour in a day, body is ready for food.

There are time zones for body to receive a particular food and supplement. Other than what body is ready to receive, the food will goes to waste without leaving a good nutrient for us. A fat may stay but vitamins and other goodness is leaving.

What are the time zone ?

• Time to eat. Time between 12 pm to 8 pm (lunch time to diner time) actually is a good time to eat. Meat, potatoes, fish, .. only not fruit. This is a false thinking that fruit is to be consumed every hour. Fruit is only for morning (breakfast) time up to 12 am.
• Time for fruit . Between 4 am to 12 (noon time) is a good hours to eat fruit. On this time body is in condition of sending food waste out of the body. Fruit has many fibers which can help this process. Fruit is needed during this time. Eating other than fruit will actually distract the inside body movement. The biggest mistake is to eat a lot of food with no fiber during this time. Everything you put inside your body during this time will be written as “waste” to the brain. It causes body to have a lot of waste to be throwing away. And the waste inside your body will sometimes in queue and delayed to be sent outside. To eat during this time will make a traffic jam inside your body.

Also, can you imagine the garbage man taking the wrong plastic bag ? Instead of taking the garbage he is taking away your ”just bought” food supply. Well, that is what your body feel about anything you eat during this period.

• Time to stop. Between 8 pm to 4 pm body is ready to take advantage of the goodness of food. This is the time for body to digest, to absorb. Practically this is the time for body to enjoy what you have eaten. It is time for your body to relax and layback; and eats what you have eaten. Consume anything during this time will ruin the schedule. Even a cup of banana juice will not work either. Better to stop eating after 8 pm and let your body absorb every goodness of the food you eat before – without distraction.

If you ignore the signal, whatever you eat during this time will not be well treated.

3. Eat in diversity

Eat in diversity. Eat many kind of food. Never stick to one kind of food. Even if this kind is good. Eating a humongous will make you lack of something you might never know. Eat in diversity will help your body to always find a particular needed supplement in every kind of food. This is like shopping in many different places. Even though you might have a favorite place to shop, you can’t supply all of your need in this shop only. You need to look to other shop for other special things. And try new shop ! You might never know what particular tools you’ll find in the next shop you visit. That is what will happen if you try new food. And sometime you will need to push yourself to eat something not your favorite or even what you hate.

People said to eat yolk (the yellow part of the boiled egg) is not good for your health. Do you know that we actually need nutrition equal to 1 up to 2 yolk in a day for protein and calcium supply. But that does not mean that literally we need to eat day by day a whole piece of yolk – two of it. It can be replaced by eating other food with similar contents.

Just make sure you “shop” around. You might not know what is your body lacking of right now. Either minerals, vitamins or other supplement can be luckily and accidentally found in the next eating if you change the menu every day.