Ideas, recommendations and quotes from Mark Hyman, M.D.’s Ultrametabolism
The following are examples of real foods (which are the only kind you should eat):
- Whole fruit, not canned fruit or fruit juices
- Whole vegetables, not canned vegetables
- Wild fish, not farmed fish
- Whole grains, not processed wheat
- Grass-fed beef, not feedlot beef
- Nuts, seeds, and legumes or beans, not fried or salted
1. Eat more fiber
2. Avoid sugar
3. Stay away from supersugar, high-fructose corn syrup
Eat breakfast. A real breakfast.
Those who skip breakfast eat more, have higher cholesterol and are more insulin resistant.
Don’t eat just before bed.
“Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and supper like a pauper.”
While channel surfing last night I came across local programming of the Kentucky Author Forum, which brings interesting authors to town to talk. Last night, it was Michael Pollan. It’s a great interview, an hour long, here. I highly recommend it.
If I follow all of these rules, I will have a big problem. I discovered that the Cook’s Illustrated/ATK peanut butter buttercream is my new favorite frosting for cakes. They say that you can’t use the all natural PB or the buttercream won’t taste right. I used Jif.
Both books, especially Pollan, say reduce and diminish more than they say eliminate.
Well except for artificial sweeteners, trans fats and high-fructose corn syrup. They say eliminate those. (I actually tossed out a couple of unopened food products yesterday, though I had very little of these nasty items.)
Hyman wants you to diminish drinking coffee. That’s not gonna happen around here.
So I say eat an extra serving of wild salmon (don’t eat farmed salmon) and go with the frosting. 🙂
Thanks for the link Tom. Pollan also did an appearance at the 92nd Street Y which is available as a podcast [link opens iTunes]. He covers a lot of what is in his bestselling The Omnivore’s Dilemma.