17 Nutrition Tips That Change Your Life
Easy Hacks for Health, Muscle, Fat Loss and More
2 – Eat white rice instead of brown.
Brown rice contains phytic acid, and phytic acid "grabs onto" or chelates minerals (making them unavailable), in addition to inhibiting enzymes we need to digest food.
That's why white rice is often a superior food. It's fortified with vitamins, isn't associated with bloating or food allergies, and when you mix it with protein (e.g., meat), it ameliorates its otherwise high glycemic index.
3 – Drink 3 to 4 cups of coffee a day.
A 2012 study of mortality in 400,000 people found that coffee drinkers had between 6 and 16 percent fewer deaths. Another found a 24% decrease in deaths over a 19-year period. And the more you drink, the better, although 3 to 4 cups seems to be the sweet spot. 4 – Women should take vitamin D for better orgasms.
Endocrinologists found that women with high or higher levels of vitamin D3 in their blood scored higher on all factors relating to sexual satisfaction.
5 – Eat cauliflower and broccoli to grow more muscle.
Eating some cooked cauliflower and broccoli every day inhibits a protein called myostatin, thus allowing muscles to grow beyond their normal genetic limitations.
7 – Drink pomegranate juice for a better erection.
If you want to experiment with the erection-enhancing effects of pomegranate, drink about 6 ounces a day. Whether you need to drink it a set number of hours before sex is unknown, but drinking it in the morning appears to work fine for those planning on getting some action that same evening.
Be careful if you combine it with Viagra, though. The Urology Annals publication documented three cases of men who used Viagra and pomegranate juice together and found that their erections wouldn't subside after sex; good if you're at an orgy, bad if you're on your way to a Baptism.
8 – Make your coffee work better by mixing in some cocoa.
Adding 5 grams of "non-Dutched" cocoa to your coffee lessens its anxiety-producing effects while enhancing its cognitive boosting effects. Cocoa is also rich repository of phytonutrients. It contains scads of polyphenols including flavonoids and flavanols, alkaloids like theobromine, and a whole alphabet soup of bioactive compounds.
Adding cocoa to your coffee is an easy way to take full advantage of these properties.
9 – Popcorn is as healthy, or maybe even healthier, than vegetables.
Amazingly, popcorn has more polyphenols (health-promoting plant chemicals) than most fruits and vegetables. It also promotes stronger erections and possibly leads to higher testosterone levels. Avoid the microwave stuff, though.
10 – Mix inulin, collagen, and freeze-dried fruits and veggies into one daily health drink.
Inulin is a prebiotic fiber that feeds your beneficial gut bacteria. Collagen is a type of protein that's been shown to work better than glucosamine and chondritin for making your tendons and joints feel better. Mix the powdered forms of these two supplements into one serving of Superfood, a blend of 18 berries, fruits, and vegetables. It's the ultimate health drink for lifters.
13 – Eat chicken skin.
A chicken breast is lean, skin or no skin, and leaving the skin on only adds about 50 calories, depending on the size of the bird. What's more, about 55% of the fat in the skin is monosaturated. You know, like olive oil. The rest of it, about 2.5 to 3.0 grams, is indeed saturated. Get over it.
14 – Eat sourdough bread. It's the doughy version of sauerkraut.
Sourdough bread is made by mixing flour and water and allowing the mixture to ferment. Millions of yeasts and billions of lactobacilli then go to work on the dough. The result is an incredibly complex bread that contains a ton of nutrients including B1-B6, B-12, vitamin E, selenium, manganese, calcium, etc., in addition to complex proteins and fatty acids.
Furthermore, sourdough pretty much shoots down any reason people might have for not eating bread; its gluten has been broken down by the bacteria, it has a low glycemic index, and it has little nutrient-robbing phytic acid.
16 – Do four things to poop like a god:
- Drink 16-20 ounces of water upon waking. This triggers what's known as the "gastrocolic reflex," which is the signal your body sends to the intestines to gather two animals of every kind and evacuate.
- Eat 3 to 4 prunes as a mid-day, between-meals snack. They contain sorbitol, a sugar alcohol that acts as a laxative. They also contain chlorogenic and neochlorogenic acids, which are the same chemicals that often cause you to go to the bathroom after your morning coffee.
- Drink a large cup of coffee in the morning. See above.
- Eat two large leaves of Romaine lettuce every day. They contain fiber, but other than that I have no scientific evidence that this technique has any special merits. I learned about it from a competitive bodybuilder in the 90's. He never won any championships, but by God the man could poop.
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