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What if you never consumed salt, oil, or sugar again? Within about 30 days, your taste buds would adapt and become more sensitive, and food would taste just as
by 300bps 6y ago
What if you never consumed salt, oil, or sugar again? Within about 30 days, your taste buds would adapt and become more sensitive, and food would taste just as good as it did before, except that it would be less addictive, so you’d probably eat less of it. You’d also be less likely to develop heart disease.
This is 100% true in my experience. In 2013 I gave up obvious sources of refined sugar and artificial sweetener due to an elevated triglycerides report. After two weeks all sweet cravings ended. Fruit started to taste amazing. Now I have dessert of any kind at most once per week and I probably haven’t had a soda of any kind in over five years.
Oh and my triglycerides went from 232 to 113.
- saiya-jin 6y agoFor sugar yes, that's well known (but when you eat fruit you are eating again just flavored sugar with fiber), but oil? The most distinct one for me is quality extra virgin olive oil and that's healthy as hell. And even that adds just a very mild flavor to ie salads.
- 300bps 6y agoI agree that oil is a poor choice of words. I would’ve used the word, “fat”. To say fruit is flavored sugar with fiber when comparing it to candy is an oversimplification. Eating candy you can consume 1,000 calories with almost no effort. Good luck eating 15 cups of raspberries to get to that 1,000 calories. Who would do that? And the candy has no nutrition in it while raspberries have lots of vitamins, minerals and as you said fiber. The bottom line is that our society eats too much sugar, fat and salt and we’d be better off eating less.