(Heather Newgen/ Eat This, Not That) — We all live busy lives juggling careers, school, family and friends, but taking care of ourselves should be the top priority because without good health, we won’t have very productive lives.
After 40 our bodies start to change–we lose muscle mass, our metabolism slows down and making bad health choices can have long-term consequences. Eat This, Not That! Health spoke with experts who share the bad habits to stop now and why.
Rachel Fine, a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist with To The Pointe Nutrition shares, “The major effect we see with yo-yo dieting is the impact on psychological and physical well being. Physiologically, with any caloric restriction, whether it’s masked as ‘intermittent fasting,’ ‘keto,’ ‘paleo,’ ‘Whole30,’ etc… the body learns to adapt to the self-imposed state of famine. In doing so, the body’s metabolic rate lowers in efforts to conserve energy for vital processes like breathing and blood circulation. (…)