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Posted by Alyssa Schomaker / Thursday, December 31, 2015 / No comments / about clean eating , clean eating , clean food , food sensitivities , get healthy , healthy food , healthy lifestyle , symptoms of food sensitivities

Do You Have Food Sensitivities?

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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Food sensitivities and intolerances have gained a lot of attention in 2015. With an increase in research and studies, we are beginning to learn that many of us are, unknowingly, suffering from the uncomfortable symptoms of food sensitivities. If you have found yourself suffering from brain fog, mood swings, asthma, sore joints, fatigue, adult acne, lethargy, and many other symptoms, it may be time to assess what you eat and see if the foods you consume every day could be causing you harm. </span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Different foods cause different reactions in the digestive tract. You have “food sensitivities” when you have difficulty digesting certain foods. The most common foods that cause food sensitivities are dairy, gluten, eggs, soy, peanuts, and shellfish, but anyone could have a food sensitivities to anything in their diet, even the preservatives or pesticides on their foods.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the simplest terms, when the digestive tract is unable to process the food that it fed, it doesn’t digest the nutrients well and can eventually cause inflammation of the gut and the release of toxins into the bloodstream that the body would generally dispose of.</span></li>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Food sensitivities can show themselves in a variety of ways. Different people will react differently to the same foods. It all depends on how your digestive tract responds to irritation and inflammation. Here is a list of common and frequent symptoms of food sensitivities:</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Moodiness</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Brain Fog</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Headache</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gas</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bloating (Feeling “fluffy”)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Intense cravings for a particular food</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Depression</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fatigue</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Acne</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rosacea</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Joint Pain</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Asthma</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Arthritis</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dark circles under eyes</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Irregular digestion and constipation</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first way to find health and get rid of the annoying symptoms of food sensitivities is to figure out what foods you are sensitive to. The best way to do this is an elimination diet. Start by eliminating dairy, wheat, and other common foods that people are sensitive to. Eliminate these foods for six weeks. Keep a food journal and make notes each day about how you feel mentally and physically.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After six weeks, reintroduce foods. Again, keeping an accurate log of your food intake and how you feel. If you notice food sensitivities and symptoms, after you reintroduce a certain food. That type of food is the culprit of some of your food sensitivities! Avoiding the foods that cause your symptoms will help you be healthier in every aspect of life.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It can be extremely frustrating to realize that you have food sensitivities to some of your favorite foods, but remember that your overall mental and physical health can greatly improve your life. Forget about the foods that inhibit you with uncomfortable symptoms.</span></li>
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What the Hollywood Stars Know About Fitness That You Don't

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<strong>Back then gyms were only for two things, and which thing the gym specialized in determined what kind of place it was. </strong>You had the <a href="http://breakingmuscle.com/strength-conditioning/globo-gym-warning-how-to-protect-yourself-your-money-and-your-goals" style="color: #2200cc; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">“health center”</a> that was primarily for weight loss. It had ferns, little chrome dumbbells, and smelled almost clean. The alternative was a dingy place filled with huge guys that smelled like a bag of unwashed socks. This facility had dumbbells up to at least 150lbs (although the best gyms all had two hundred pounders) and at least two squat racks.</div>
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<strong>Why What You Learned in the Gym Is Wrong</strong></h2>
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The weird thing was that often both of these gyms <a href="http://breakingmuscle.com/strength-conditioning/filtering-fitness-how-to-find-the-truth-when-reading-about-training" style="color: #2200cc; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">weren’t great sources of information</a> on how to gain or lose weight. Much of what we think we know about hypertrophy is based off what bodybuilders have always done. <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The problem is that no one does a study on how lifting tempo affects muscle gains and then has the nerve to ask the massive guys participating in the study how many grams of testosterone they’re taking per week.</em></div>
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<strong>The same can be said of dieting.</strong> While bodybuilders do know how to get super lean, they also do it with the help of<a href="http://breakingmuscle.com/mens-fitness/male-body-image-and-the-pressure-to-use-steroids" style="color: #2200cc; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> large servings of drugs</a> and unhealthy, last minute water depletion. (Hell, they even use that trick on <a href="http://breakingmuscle.com/strength-conditioning/the-real-biggest-loser-is-the-show-itself" style="color: #2200cc; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Biggest Loser</em></a>).</div>
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<strong>Let’s break down these two popular subjects and try to get a straightforward approach, like that used by Hollywood stars and their trainers to get results.</strong></div>
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<strong>The Myth of Hypertrophy Training</strong></h2>
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<a href="http://breakingmuscle.com/strength-conditioning/hypertrophy-is-not-a-bad-word-functional-hypertrophy-training" style="color: #2200cc; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Training for muscle size</a> is possibly the most convoluted training method there is. Because we’re influenced by bro culture and the hype of muscle magazines, we often lose sight of one important piece of the puzzle: <strong>If you give a guy who is predisposed to muscle gain a truckload of drugs, he will likely gain muscle regardless of the training plan.</strong></div>
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When it comes to hypertrophy training, there are all kinds of claims from<a href="http://breakingmuscle.com/strength-conditioning/an-analysis-of-4-lifting-protocols-and-their-impact-on-the-body" style="color: #2200cc; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> time-under-tension to one-set-to-failure</a> (or the reverse, with methods like <a href="http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/luis13.htm" style="color: #2200cc; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">German volume training</a>). And despite being different, each one claims to focus on the "one thing" that is key to muscle growth. But having watched many very big guys train, I can honestly say that I’ve never seen anyone truly big count the speed of their reps. <strong>Nor do most even seem to use a full range of motion.</strong></div>
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<strong>Calorie Surplus Is Key</strong></h2>
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<strong>The number one thing that drives muscle building is a calorie surplus. </strong>No talk of hypertrophy is worthy of mention without a corresponding <a href="http://breakingmuscle.com/dear-coach/dear-coach-how-should-i-eat-to-gain-muscle" style="color: #2200cc; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">talk of hardcore eating</a>. During the filming of <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Superman</em>, Henry Cavill (pictured center) went on a 5,000 calorie a day diet (with 3,000 per day coming from whole food sources, not supplements). Try eating that much food for even a day, let alone the months required for him to go from normal to looking like the Man of Steel. (For more information on the exact process followed please go to <a href="http://www.gymjones.com/" style="color: #2200cc; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Gym Jones</a> and support their work.)</div>
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Once you’re eating the massive amount of food required, and then making sure to get<a href="http://breakingmuscle.com/strength-conditioning/the-training-equation-not-as-simple-as-work-rest" style="color: #2200cc; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">adequate rest post-training </a>(because you don’t grow in the gym, only out of it), it will matter little what exact plan you are following. <strong>You simply need to hit it hard, lift some heavy stuff up off the ground in a variety of ways, and work the muscles with both reps and weight.</strong> Use big lifts and put it together in a way that keeps you enjoying the process, as that is what will ultimately see you successful in growing or not, with little bearing on how fast you lift the load or the exact number of reps you use.</div>
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<strong>The Myth of Diet</strong></h2>
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<strong>For those of us in the fitness industry it may seem like there is a huge revolution going on. </strong>On the one hand, we have what we know works - get decent quantities of protein, some healthy fats, and moderate carbohydrates based on activity levels. Avoid using processed foods as much as possible.</div>
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<strong>On the other hand, we have clear evidence that the rest of society doesn’t know this.</strong> When 60% of the world <a href="http://breakingmuscle.com/nutrition/what-prohibition-and-the-war-on-drugs-teach-us-about-our-nations-battle-of-the-bulge" style="color: #2200cc; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">is overweight or obese</a> it is pretty clear that people who know how to eat are in a minority.</div>
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Between people being told to eliminate carbs, back-load carbs, or eat high- or low-GI carbs, they got confused and just went and ate a Big Mac instead. Science, as with bodybuilding, doesn’t really offer much because most of what they’re forced to research is based on the<a href="http://breakingmuscle.com/nutrition/what-is-healthy-eating-turning-the-food-pyramid-upside-down" style="color: #2200cc; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">shaky foundations of the food pyramid</a>. That, in turn, is based on the erroneous assumption that fat loss is about what is referred to as the laws of thermodynamics, or put more simply,<a href="http://breakingmuscle.com/nutrition/the-right-way-to-lose-fat-what-to-eat" style="color: #2200cc; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">calories in versus calories out</a>.</div>
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<strong>What this basically says is that if you eat less, then you’ll lose weight.</strong> Brilliant.</div>
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There are two problems with this old concept of diet, though.<strong> Firstly, when you exercise your body undergoes several changes, one of which happens to be a correspondingly higher metabolism. </strong>As your metabolism increases, so does your appetite as your body strives to actually retain the same amount of fat as you have right now. With exercise comes appetite.<strong></strong></div>
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<strong>The other side of this coin - starving yourself - does the exact opposite thing.</strong> If you reduce your energy intake long term, then you will slow down <a href="http://breakingmuscle.com/health-medicine/its-not-your-metabolism-its-your-neat-thats-stopping-your-fat-loss" style="color: #2200cc; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">your metabolism</a>, which will actually make it easier to gain fat again if you go back to regular eating in the future.</div>
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One of the diet trends over the last few years has been intermittent fasting (IF). For me, IF is what lazy people do to try to control their weight. I’m just not a fan of it. Why?<strong> For the simple reason that for <a href="http://breakingmuscle.com/nutrition/train-man-eat-woman" style="color: #2200cc; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">50% of the population IF may actually harm their health</a>.</strong>While I know a small percentage of women respond well to IF, the vast majority I know have suffered from a lot of problems that took considerable time to fix, and were only fixed by going back to a more normal eating plan.</div>
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Diet is really so simple that I am always at a loss as to how people can get it wrong. That’s one of the reasons I love<a href="http://www.precisionnutrition.com/about/john-berardi" style="color: #2200cc; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> Dr. John Berardi </a>of <a href="http://www.precisionnutrition.com/" style="color: #2200cc; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Precision Nutrition</a> so much. He takes all this mess and puts it into easy to use rules. <strong>While he has <a href="http://www.blitzmag.net/training/fitness-strength/382-10-healthy-eating-habits" style="color: #2200cc; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Ten Habits</a>, the first five are most important:</strong></div>
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<strong>To maximize fat loss you need to maximize activity as well as keep your metabolism ticking along nicely. </strong>The thyroid responds poorly to <a href="http://chriskresser.com/thyroid-blood-sugar-metabolic-syndrome" style="color: #2200cc; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">both excess and inadequate blood sugar levels</a>, and your brain actually needs some sugar to keep you thinking clearly all day.</div>
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<strong>Beyond the Myth of Bodybuilding</strong></h2>
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Bodybuilding has a lot to answer for as we are swept away by <a href="http://breakingmuscle.com/sports-psychology/strong-is-still-strong-skinny-is-still-skinny" style="color: #2200cc; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">what we see on magazine covers </a>and fail to understand for the most part that what you see was a condition that was only sustainable for a few hours at best. A friend of mine who was a finalist in the <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Men’s Health</em> cover model competition went two days without eating or drinking to maintain his shape for his shoot - and then went and ate a pizza moments after he was finished. <strong>That binge and purge cycle is <a href="http://breakingmuscle.com/sports-psychology/are-you-addicted-to-exercise-the-tell-tale-signs" style="color: #2200cc; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">seen in addicts</a> and doesn’t exactly seem like the healthiest way to live.</strong></div>
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<strong>What most people don’t want to hear is that gaining muscle or being lean are constant works. </strong>While you can change to a great degree how lean you are for a photo shoot, you can’t stay that way. However, professional physique models are always only a couple of weeks away from picture ready - and when they do have pictures taken, they’ll literally have hundreds done to use for the next six months until they peak again. You can see what Hugh Jackman has to say about <a href="http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-5q-jackman-20140524-story.html" style="color: #2200cc; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">how he views staying close to Wolverine-shape all the time here</a>.</div>
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Majorly cut down on carbs and try spaghetti squash instead of noodles!! Tastes just like noodles except squash has much more FIBER and nutrients! Here is a great sauce to use: </div>
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Seven Principles of Clean Eating

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The latest buzz word among health-conscious consumers, “eating clean,” is a concept that stresses healthy, whole, unprocessed
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The principles are based on 
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