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HEALTHY EATING
Good-gut goodness Eric Rose
“ Make plants — organic vegetables, fruits, legumes, nuts, whole grains — your top priority when eating to benefit both your brain and body.” — Eric Rose
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ooking for ways to improve your emotional and mental health? Or even improve that number on the scale and your energy? Food plays a much bigger role than you may have thought! Over the last decade I have studied human nutrition and found there is a very strong connection between the mind and our digestive system, and it inspired me to take charge of my own health as well as help others do the same. As a certified health coach and award-winning chef, I have made it my mission to get the world healthy.
In order to feel healthy, you must be intentional. Intentional about your daily habits like getting enough exercise and sleep, mindset-filling your brain with positive thoughts drowning out all the negativity, and—most importantly — eating a healthy diet. Your stomach and brain are very much connected, and what you fill your stomach with will ultimately determine what neuro and chemical response your body will have, thus affecting how you feel. One of the simplest ways I break this concept down while talking to clients is that from a nutrition standpoint there is only
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one of three things that can happen when you eat: 1. You fuel to build your body and improve health (good minerals and vitamin-packed complex carbs, protein and healthy fats) 2. You fuel your body with unhealthy foods, which breaks your body down and causes it to put things on pause to filter out the junk. (It’s not nutrition your body can use to improve). 3. You fuel your body with too much of a good thing and it can’t use it all at that given moment. So now once again it becomes taxing to your body,
storing the excess as fat which has to detox through your liver. So, you can really have too much of a good thing. The pneumogastric nerve that connects the brain and stomach is the control center that determines what happens next after we eat. Overeating can cause our minds to be clouded, forgetful, and irritable. Keeping our stomach in an optimal state will keep the mind vigorous. One of the best changes you can make in your diet if you are not already eating this way is to make plants—organic vegetables, fruits, legumes, nuts, whole M I N D & BODY H E ALTH EDITION
