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As already mentioned get into a strength training regiment. If you aren't interested in weights there is a lot of body weight stuff you can do, especially is you have access to local park that have pull up bars, parallel bars etc. Check out Al Kavadlo, he also has a huge Youtube channel with tons of body weight training videos
Eat real "whole" foods as much as possible. I.E., fresh produce, meat, eggs, fish etc and avoid any prepared meals from a can, frozen aisle, take out, restaurants etc. Go for organic fruit and veggies, wild caught fish, grass fed beef and organic pastured chicken and eggs whenever you can afford it. Go to local farmers markets and see if you have local farms/ranches that sell produce, eggs and meat. But eating real food over processed will do a lot for health and also let's you control sodium much better. And avoid drinking calories. Drink water and black coffe/teas if you want caffeine
If you do nothing but that you'll be in much better health then 90% of Americans.
The grill should be reduced to an occasional indulgence.
I have to disagree with that. If hubby enjoys grilling, why not take advantage of that fact? Grilling isn't just for burgers and steaks! It can be a great way to prepare chicken and fish, and a wide variety of veggies as well. Why not get some grilling baskets and kebab skewers and start experimenting with healthy grilled choices?
I have to disagree with that. If hubby enjoys grilling, why not take advantage of that fact? Grilling isn't just for burgers and steaks! It can be a great way to prepare chicken and fish, and a wide variety of veggies as well. Why not get some grilling baskets and kebab skewers and start experimenting with healthy grilled choices?
Technically you are quite right, you can cook all around healthy meals on grills. But in my observation, meat dominates the process and often with little regard to charring/blackening which can be carcinogenic especially on red meat.
Technically you are quite right, you can cook all around healthy meals on grills. But in my observation, meat dominates the process and often with little regard to charring/blackening which can be carcinogenic especially on red meat.
This. Grilled meat equals carcinogens. Not the worst thing you can eat but probably not a good idea to eat a lot of grilled food. But that also goes for things seared in a frying pan. Read up on Japanese culture's almost non existent rate of stomach and intestinal cancer that has been linked to the fact that they historically didn't eat food that was grilled/seared
As for meat, I think a healthy human diet should have good amounts of it but opt for grass fed beef and pastured chicken and pork when you can. We were designed to eat meat but most people only eat sick commercially raised animals which isn't healthy
This. Grilled meat equals carcinogens. Not the worst thing you can eat but probably not a good idea to eat a lot of grilled food. But that also goes for things seared in a frying pan. Read up on Japanese culture's almost non existent rate of stomach and intestinal cancer that has been linked to the fact that they historically didn't eat food that was grilled/seared
As for meat, I think a healthy human diet should have good amounts of it but opt for grass fed beef and pastured chicken and pork when you can. We were designed to eat meat but most people only eat sick commercially raised animals which isn't healthy
We were designed to eat very little meat. Carnivores are designed to eat meat.
If we were designed to eat meat, out teeth would look like the teeth of carnivores:
Read up on Japanese culture's almost non existent rate of stomach and intestinal cancer that has been linked to the fact that they historically didn't eat food that was grilled/seared
Actually Japan has one of the highest rates of gastric cancer in the world. (Low colon cancer rate, though.) And the traditional Japanese diet is suspected of playing an important role in their high stomach cancer rate. Stomach cancer statistics | World Cancer Research Fund International
You neither look nor are underweight. Healthy weight for a 5'1" woman is 100 lbs. to 131 lbs. Healthy weight for a 5'2" woman is 104 lbs. to 135 lbs.
I would not deliberately try to put on weight if I were you. The metabolism has a sneaky way of slowing down naturally between the mid 20s and early 30s. You are young, you eat right, and you are trim. There is nothing wrong with you. Sometimes I think Americans have a distorted idea of what is healthy because so many people here are overweight that when someone is a normal weight they think the person is too thin.
About your husband, those packaged foods are death. 1100 mg of salt in one meal?
If you do the cooking you have a way of at least controlling one meal a little bit. You would have to cook things that are very filling and full of flavor. I am vegetarian and have had a partner who ate meat but he loved when I cooked because I made dishes that were healthy but heavy, things like Mexican food or Indian food. The vegetarian forum on this site has a recipe thread. Maybe you can find ideas there.
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