Business owners and entrepreneurs are hard workers and that often time leads to late hours at the office, staying up late, lack of exercise, and poor eating habits. Let’s start the new year with a positive change that will have an immediate effect on your work life balance.
What NOT to eat
Often times it’s not what food you SHOULD eat to stay healthy, but it’s the food you SHOULDN’T eat.
Sugar: Sugar is highly addictive, fattening, and often leads to obesity, diabetes, and other cardiovascular diseases.
Grains: Anything white or made from flour should be avoided. If your aim is to lose weight, avoiding Grain is a must!
Seeds/Vegetable Oil: These are made from processed fat containing high amounts of Omega-6 Fatty Acids (Omega-6 Fatty Acids are good for you as it promotes tissue repair, however too much is bad for you)
Trans Fat: Very common in processed food. Any fat that’s been altered or chemically modified is automatically bad for your body. Don’t eat it! (Trans fat are created by adding hydrogen to vegetable oil to solidify them)
Artificial Sweetener: Despite the fact that they’re supposedly better for you than sugar, there are direct links between artificial sugar and obesity in recent studies. (If you must use artificial sweetener, use Stevia instead).
Any “Diets” or “Low-fat” products: A lot of these food claims to be healthy, and they’re anything but healthy. Some even claim to use Agave Syrup instead of sugar, strangely enough, Agave Syrup is just as bad as sugar. In short, Diet/Low-fat products tend to be more loaded with chemicals and artificial sweeteners that are just as bad for you, if not worse in many cases.
Highly Processed Foods: These foods are an obvious one to stay away from. They often are low in nutritional content and high in unnatural and artificial chemicals that shouldn’t be in your body.
For the year and exciting year, try to stay from any products that fit the list above and you’ll find yourself eating much healthier with renewed energy.
