Wean Yourself Off Processed Foods in 7 Steps – Step 1
Step 1: Seek true satisfaction.
Grab that peach or strawberry, examine its color, sniff it, and take a bite. Give yourself a moment to enjoy the genuine flavors. For comparison, nibble a Starburst fruit candy or a strawberry fruit roll-up. Notice that you mainly taste sweet without a lot of complexity? That’s because fat, sugar, and salt are added to processed foods to mask the metallic taste of artificial preservatives, sweeteners, and other chemical additives, says Weinstein. He should know since he used to test recipes for packaged food companies and tinker with ingredients to get the appropriate taste and texture. Processed foods are also made to dissolve quickly in your mouth, he says, to get you to eat faster and in greater quantities—often leaving you full, but not satisfied. Now you know why that bag of Doritos disappears before you’ve really had a chance to taste them.
Excerpt from article by Deborah Kotz in US News and World Reports which I will cover this week in this blog.
A new book, Real Food Has Curves, written by Weinstein and his partner, Mark Scarbrough., has a plan to get you to enjoy food more and maybe lose weight
Posted: June 4, 2010 in: US News and World Reports …see more>
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