NY Times- Skipping Cereal and Eggs, and Packing on Pounds
You don't have to follow a paleolithic diet to know the best way to eat is in the morning after a walk. This replicates the evolutionary ritual of searching for food in the morning then eating it. Otherwise, if you do not eat in the morning your body gears up for a lean day and slows down your metabolism so once you do eat something your body holds onto the food because by skipping breakfast you've basically told it "food is scarce so hoard whatever you get".
Here are my basic "health" rules:
- eat breakfast within two hours of waking up
- eat complex carbohydrates, protein, fat, and fiber for breakfast
- breakfast like a King, lunch like a Prince, dinner like a pauper
- use fruit for mid-morning and mid-afternoon snacks
- strive for a 12 hour food consumption window so that your food does not linger in your digestive track while you sleep
- walk for a total of one hour a day
- avoid white things (sugar, bread, rice, etc)
* Dogs should always eat AFTER walks and playtime too in order to avoid stomach twisting.
And Michael Pollan, in his new book, gives these basic rules to eating:
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
and via SeriousEats:
Michael Pollan's Twelve Commandments for Serious Eaters: Can You Live By Them?
1. "Don't eat anything your grandmother wouldn't recognize as food."
2. "Avoid foods containing ingredients you can't pronounce."
3. "Don't eat anything that won't eventually rot."
4. "Avoid food products that carry health claims."
5. "Shop the peripheries of the supermarket; stay out of the middle."
6. "Better yet, buy food somewhere else: the farmers' market or CSA."
7. "Pay more, eat less."
8. "Eat a wide variety of species."
9. "Eat food from animals that eat grass."
10. "Cook, and if you can, grow some of your own food."
11. "Eat meals and eat them only at tables."
12. "Eat deliberately, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure."
