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Emz Hung

Forget everything you thought you knew about healthy eating. Bi-weekly, I share the LEAST you DO need to know: practical eating habits and mindset shifts you can apply right away, plus the food myths that keep you stuck, debunked so that you can make your Healthy Nutrition, a No-Brainer!

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🍏 The FEAR of Healthy Eating SUCCESS

“It is extremely important to understand that a healthy diet is a lifestyle change in that it's not something you can just dip in and out of and expect results and/or optimum health.” —Chloe Madeley Hey there Healthy-Eating Action-Taker ~ (aka HEAT!) I've been working with over 45 clients (including some friends or colleagues) in health and fitness: first as an Educogym trainer, then later even amongst patients and my own med school colleagues while I'm finishing my final year. And I've...

“Learning to eat for stable blood sugar is of paramount importance.” —Dr. Casey Means, Author of Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health Hi Healthy-Eating Action-Taker (HEAT), For the upcoming biweekly nuggets of 🍏Nutrition No-Brainer, we will be doing a Mini-Dive Series, sharing the swift science behind each of the 5 Nutrition No-Brainers: L – Limit High-Glycemic Choices E – Emphasize High Quality Protein A – Add Healthy Fats When Cooking S – Stick to...

“Healthy shouldn’t mean boring — it should mean clever and delicious. ” ― Irene Z., Author of 'Healthy Food That Doesn't Taste Healthy Cookbook' Hey there, Healthy Eating Action-Taker! Today, let’s not take healthy eating as some grandiose or difficult discipline, but make it far easier to apply daily in life: through a filter. How much easier would eating be if decisions were pre-made? Yet healthy eating today has become a labyrinth of confusing or difficult decisions. Because (and sorry to...

“Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes. ” ― Will Cuppy Hi there, healthy eating action-taker! I recently invited a friend to one of Havana's few juice spots I trust: no added sugar, actually boiled water, and using REAL fruit. It "costs more", but you're paying for what's ACTUALLY NATURAL. We both chose the same flavor. My reaction: clean, fresh, subtly sweet. My friend's: "This tastes kind of bad." I wasn't...

Shelves stocked with drinks and snacks in a store.

“Your body is a Temple. You are what you eat. Do not eat processed food, junk foods, filth, or disease-carrying food, animals, or rodents. Some people say of these foods, 'well, it tastes good'. Most of the foods today that statistically cause sickness, cancer, and disease ALL TASTE GOOD; it's well-seasoned and prepared poison. THIS IS WHY SO MANY PEOPLE ARE SICK; mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually; because of being hooked to the 'taste' of poison, instead of being hooked on...

“If you keep good food in your fridge, you will eat good food.” – Errick McAdams “I wish I had the self-discipline to eat like you.” That’s what someone told me when I shared my 30-day Nutrition No-Brainer challenge: 130g of high-quality protein a day as an ovo-lacto vegetarian and upholding all meals through my 5 Nutrition No-Brainer principles. Discipline in healthy eating seems so difficult since many people assume it’s all about restriction, guilt, shame and tribulation. Really, it’s a...

APPLES vs CHIPS. Same Calories? Why calorie counting misses the point: why food quality, hormones, and metabolism matter more.

“The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison.” – Ann Wigmore Just like the scale doesn't tell you the difference between fat and muscle, and what you need to focus on for results are: performance, and body composition appearance, NOT the weight number... Calorie counting misses the bigger picture: NUTRIENT QUALITY and HORMONAL IMPACT matter MORE than just the "numbers"! What Are Calories? Calories measure energy, but specifically...

“When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.” – Erma Bombeck The Best Thing You Need to Know about your Healthy Nutrition Journey: It's ABSOLUTELY ok to love sweet things AND fulfill healthy eating principles. I still occasionally enjoy dark chocolate and try new pastries now and again. In fact, in my experience, if you follow the 5 Nutrition No-brainers, you would virtually not have any "cheat" cravings at all (especially in the intentional order that I've introduced them).Here's a...

“Carbs are twigs that burn fast, fats are logs that burn slow. Eat them together and your body burns the twigs first while storing the logs as fat.” – Dr. Becky, adapted from "Why Refined Carbs & Fats Don't Mix - The Cheeseburger Example Stop Sabotaging Your Fat Loss: The Hidden Truth About Carbs + Fat Combinations! Since diving deep into body recomposition nutrition, I've discovered one of the biggest mistakes that keeps people stuck in fat storage mode: Eating high carbs (especially...

“I was seduced by secrets, which are to true love as artificial sweetener is to sugar, calorie-free but in the long run carcinogenic, not the real thing, and only a peculiar aftertaste in the mouth to tell you so, to warn you” – Fay Weldon Rediscover Your Natural Sweet Tooth! In July 2024, changed everything when my Educogym-Belize trainer pointed out the high fructose corn syrup on the label of my ketchup. As a health-conscious vegetarian, I had been unknowingly consuming hidden sugars...