When the body reaches the age of mid-forties, the decline in level of fitness accelerates. You can slow down this process by staying slim with good nutrition, don’t over-eat, reduce your intake of alcohol, don’t smoke and follow a structured exercise programme designed specifically to suit you.
If you pay attention to these minor areas, it can improve your quality of life and increase your chance of longevity.
Ingredients
To serve: Wholewheat pasta or homemade chips cooked in lard, goose or duck fat (see recipes)
Method
Chilli is full of protein, carbs, dairy and is a complete meal. There is fibre from brown rice and the meal on a whole is gorgeous.
All margarines start-off BLACK! They are then pumped full of artificial ingredients to make them what you see on the supermarket shelves. They have a high content of polyunsaturated fat, which is good for you, but not in high doses. As a test, if you were to leave a tub of margarine and a block of butter out of the fridge for a long time, eventually the butter will decompose. Bacteria will get to the butter, as butter is full of natural goodness, but it will not go anywhere near the margarine. So, if bacteria doesn’t want to eat it, you don’t want to!
The current food pyramid decided upon by the government, determines that you should eat more carbohydrates such as, pasta, rice, bread, fruit and vegetables. The result of eating a diet high in carbohydrates, which your body doesn’t need, is that it ultimately provides your body with sugar, forcing your pancreas to release insulin, which makes the cells of your body more permeable, so that the sugar maybe absorbed into your system to be used as fuel. We only need a small amount of carbohydrates for nutrition, so if you eat alot of carbohydrates, the body uses the small amount that it needs and stores the rest, which is why there are alot more people are obese.
The more carbohydrates you eat, the more sugar is in your system and the harder your pancreas has to work to release more insulin. Eventually, your pancreas will burn-out, not be able to metabolise the sugar, so it is stored rather than used and not perform as it should, which can lead to obesity, diabetes and pancreas problems. The sugar release from carbohydrates supplies a short-lived boost of energy and once used, your body requires another boost soon after. To slow-down the release of sugar from the carbohydrates, eat them with a dairy product such as, butter, cheese, cream, yoghurt and milk. The dairy acts like a bungee tied to a whippet, as it stops the whippet running away at high speed and just allows it to accelerate at a steady speed, resulting in the fuel from the carbohydrates being drip-fed into your system, giving you a steady supply of energy.
When you do eat carbohydrates, eat unrefined carbohydrates such as wholemeal pasta, bread and brown rice. Don’t eat refined carbohydrates such as white pasta, bread and rice, as it has no nutritional value at all and once consumed, your body is trying to expel it, because it doesn’t want it.
