Alkawther Makki - Smarter Cleaner Leaner: Feed Your Brain, Not Your Stomach

Smarter
Cleaner
Leaner

Feed Your Brain,

Not Your Stomach

Alkawther
Makki

SMARTER CLEANER LEANER

Copyright 2020 Alkawther Makki

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ISBN (Paperback): 978-1-64345-948-6

ISBN (Ebook): 978-1-64345-949-3

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Lifestyle Catalog

Abstract

An optimum healthy lifestyle that interacts with all body systems, is taught by a system of nutrient health principles, whole food elements, and implements health practices that preserve health, seeks prevention, and improves quality of life and self-efficacy as well as increasing stamina, agility, and vitality.

Why do you eat what you eat for breakfast?

You were taught to eat cereal with milk, cream cheese, bagels, waffles, pancakes, sausage, toast, and jam, which will set you up for failure when choosing the right foods for your second meal.

Solution : How about eating vegetables and fruits for breakfast, or a more traditional avocado and eggs for a healthy start.

Is breakfast really the most important meal of the day?

No, it is not, not by a long shot. What is important is what you eat when you do breakfast.

Solution : eating as soon as you wake up is not as healthy as you were taught to believe. Your body actually gains fuel and energy when you intermittently fast. When you eat breakfast around noon, 1:00 or 2:00 p.m., you should choose your food wisely so that your second meal around five to seven hours later will be chosen confidently.

Introduction

Today you are reading this because you are making an effort to change your life, in whatever part, form, or magnitude. Are you fed up with promising health plans and seeking an honest long term solution, or you are motivated and inspired to make a change? Have you struggled with weight loss, or have you been lethargic, weak, and continue to battle health ailments? Whatever your motives, you are here because you want to feel different and ultimately become your best self.

It took you six months to crawl, one year to walk, and two years to run. How many years will it take you to take control of your life and feel that you are who you were born to bestrong, intelligent, talented, and resilient? How many times have you said that you will start tomorrow, next week, after Thanksgiving, after the holidays, after your birthday, or after that upcoming party? The truth is you continue to make excuses because plans have failed you before, and you only found temporary solutions where hard efforts never paid off. Do not be hard on yourself; you were taught misleading eating habits, practices, and proposed solutions. Have you considered making a lifelong change? Does lifelong sound too farfetched and impossible because you still want to enjoy your favorite pizza or chocolate cake with vanilla bean ice cream? I am not saying you can no longer enjoy your pizza or cake; rather, learn to savor real human food and attain human practices because you are valuable and worthy of owning your best self.

Today is your tomorrow and tomorrow starts today. Today you will start the age of discovery by relearning and establishing what human food is. One might ask how an advanced society is subject to relearn what we were once naturally born with and practiced for thousands of years. It is clear that our ethics and principles have been altered by competitive markets and greedy profits. It is already difficult to meet ends meet, especially if you are raising a family that requires healthy food and proper clothing. Foods labeled as organic are more expensive than those that are not, but why do they have to be? Many Americans do not have the financial means to consume organic foods on a daily basis, thus making right health choices intimidating. Then there are those who grow up in bad environments, who lack the knowledge and proper nutrition because they are constant subjects of abuse, drugs, and improper sanitation. It is degrading that our health has become a business opportunity that has focused less on human nutrition and more on weight loss. More than ever, doctors are rethinking what they once believed about saturated fats, the causes of diabetes and cholesterol. It seemed for the longest time we encountered an era like the dark ages, and now we are Michelangelos, relearning the skills and techniques that our ancestors already used thousands of years ago. Today you will rise like the age of the Enlightenment after the Dark Ages.

On the positive side, as a nation, we have become more health conscious by making tremendous efforts to encourage exercise and healthier eating habits. People have been seeking healthier food choices, and accordingly, grocery markets have engaged in the organic niche and there is an increased hype for exercise outlets in the business sector. On the downside, there is a negative impact to the modern health trend. Companies and markets are competitively creating products and advertising them to be the miracle in weight loss; such even suggest that they can achieve this weight loss without altering their selection of food or without exercise. The pills make you lose weight by blocking fat absorption, and while this may be true, what is the negative impact on your health? People are often led into the wrong direction because what they are offered is promising; however, they are unaware that there is an opportunity cost (focusing and seeking one plan or action and losing efficiency in another). While the end result is physically satisfying, one can become blindsided by the detrimental side effects. Our brain relies on healthy foods that contain fats, carbs, and proteins for function and mental performance. Fats are found in organic foods such as eggs, avocados, walnuts, and coconuts. Ask yourself, if you are taking a pill that blocks the absorption of fats, does it also block the absorption of healthy fats and nutrients that is essential to your brain health? Make sure that while you are shrinking your waist size, you are not shrinking your organs in the process. To a greater extreme, there are a plethora of health articles suggesting that brain health is heavily reliant on saturated fats. This is a bizarre overgeneralization. If your food consist mostly of red meats that are high in saturated fats, you are setting yourself up for numerous health illnesses. There are foods high in carbohydrates and proteins that contribute to your brain health because the food contains essential vitamins, nutrients, and amino acids. Foods have their own genetic makeup; therefore, it is wrong to conclude that saturated fats alone are optimum for your brain health.