10 rules for healthy eating for life and what to remove from your kitchen

The online newspaper "The Huffington Post" published an interesting article by Mark Hyman, MD, an internationally recognized authority in the field of functional medicine. The English article is titled "10 Rules to Eat Safely for Life (and What to Remove From Your Kitchen)" provides 10 important rules to follow for healthy eating for life, and we should remove food from the kitchen to improve our health.

According to Hayman, follow these simple rules can help us survive and avoid the dangers of industrial food and to prevent, treat and even reverse most chronic diseases that undermine our energy.

Follow these simple rules and get extraordinary results in your health and your family: weight loss, increased energy, reduced need for medication, health recovery and slowing the epidemic of chronic disease that afflicts thousands of children and adults around the world.

• Rule 1. Ideally keep food in your kitchen without labels (those that come in boxes, packages or cans). Although there are good foods that are labeled as sardines, artichoke hearts or roasted red peppers, one must be smart to read labels and look through these two important things: the list of ingredients and nutritional information. If the main ingredient at the bottom of the list, and salt or sugar are at the top, be careful, because the most abundant ingredient usually appears first, while the rest are listed in descending order by weight. Also be careful with some ingredients that may be exempt from the labels, which happens often, especially when foods come in packages or containers too small.

• Rule 2. If a food label should have less than five ingredients. If you have more than five, throw it away. Also watch out for foods whose labels claim to have healthful properties, since they are usually unhealthy.

• Rule 3. If sugar on the label of a product under any name (organic cane juice, honey, agave syrup, maple syrup, molasses or molasses), discard it. May be for example up to 33 teaspoons of sugar in a bottle median tomato sauce. The same goes for white rice and white flour, which act like sugar in the body. If you suffer diabesity (a form of diabetes caused by obesity), can not easily handle any meal, even integral.

• Rule 4. Discard any food that the label contains corn syrup, high fructose, because it is super sweet liquid sugar bad for your health. Some corn syrups high in fructose also contain mercury as a byproduct of the manufacturing process. Soft drinks, juices and drinks, "sports" (isotonic rehydration), contain this "metabolic poison" low quality signal or processed foods.

• Rule 5. Discard any food that contains the label the word "hydrogenated". This is an indicator of trans fats, which have proven to cause heart disease, diabetes and cancer.

• Rule 6. Discards highly refined cooking oils like corn oil, soybean, etc.. Avoid toxic fats and fried foods.

• Rule 7. Discard any food that contains ingredients on the label do not recognize, you can not pronounce or in english.

• Rule 8. Discard all foods with preservatives, additives, colorings or dyes, "natural flavoring" or flavor enhancers such as monosodium glutamate (MSG).

• Rule 9. Discard any food with artificial sweeteners of any kind (aspartame, Splenda, sucralose, and sugar alcohols, any word that ends in "ol" like xylitol, sorbitol), which cause more hunger, slows your metabolism, produce gases, and do you accumulate fat in the belly.

• Rule 10. Finally, if something comes from the land or field of a farmer, not a food chemistry laboratory, it is safe to eat. If it's something your grandmother would not recognize as food, throw it away, and stay away from substances "type food."

Take note of these 10 rules for healthy eating for life and ready to enjoy a much healthier life and full of energy!

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