The Quickest “How to Eat Healthy” Article You’ll Perhaps Ever Read
Compressing 5+ years of my experience and the latest research into 2 minutes
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3 min readJan 6, 2022
Selling lies, pseudoscience, and exaggerated (false) claims has turned dieting into a multi-billion dollar industry.
Carb-cycling, Paleo, Intermittent fasting, Carnivore. Every day, they coin a fancier term — to be packaged and sold at exorbitant prices. For years, I bought into all this and learned the hard way.
Eating healthy is simple. Cutting through all the b.s., I want to share a super-concise article on exactly how to do so:
- Prioritize complex carbs over simple ones. While simple carbs (especially sugar) rapidly spike blood glucose levels, complex ones get absorbed slowly and yield energy for a long time.
- Minimize processed foods like cheeseburgers, pizza, donuts, and even breakfast cereal. And maximize whole ones like meat, eggs, veggies, nuts, and milk.
- Prefer this kind of fat. Fats are necessary for healthy hormone functioning (especially testosterone), so don’t ignore them. But consume unsaturated ones, as the saturated kind increases bad (or LDL) cholesterol.
- Avoid trans-fats like the plague. Rampant in junk food like donuts, french fries…