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Absolutely. My partner and I realized we were eating a lot of unhealthy food, so we started trying to cut down on sugar.
As it turns out, you can't really eat out anywhere if you're cutting sugar, so we started cooking at home.
Cut to about three weeks later, and I go to drink a HALF-SUGAR Gatorade. I could only get about two sips down before I had to throw it away. Way too sweet.
Then, I had to stop somewhere for lunch. Panda Express' chow mein and 2 entrees were ~1200 calories, and that really wasn't even filling.
Our bodies are really good at adapting to whatever diets we have to take on, and ultraprocessed food is great for survival due to its high caloric content for the cost. But we weren't meant to eat like this every day, and raising your kid to adapt to that instead of whole foods is child abuse.
What really shocked me was that it took a few days for my body to get used to eating healthily. I was mainly eating beans and cornbread, and it seemed to just not be able to easily digest it at first. I'd imagine that hyperprocessed stuff is crippling our body's ability to properly digest, because all the processing has been done already.
Of course, now I'm imagining kids that have eaten nothing but chicken nuggets since they could have solid food, and a lot of America's food addiction and dietary issues make so much sense.
Our digestion of unprocessed foods improved with the addition of some fermented foods that maybe tuned up our gut biomes. Milk kefir in particular is a diverse probiotic and is easy to make yourself at room temperature on a kitchen counter.
Fun fact: if you eat lots of sugar the body starts to use only sugar as energy and "forgets" how to use fat. This means if you're on a sugar diet, you'll feel hunger all the time you do not eat sugar...
If you drop it, your body will slowly get back and burn fat when it needs energy (and the liver can make enough glucose for the brain to work so don't worry) resulting in way less obnoxious hunger and a lot of energy ready to go att all times.
Personally I'm almost never cold any more for example ๐