A Health Nut's Guide to Eating Out with The Holistic Navigator

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An episode from The Holistic Navigator. This is not to diagnosis or treat any disease/illness. Consult your physician before taking supplements or medications OR before you stop taking medications. This is for entertainment/informational purposes only!

Making wise decisions concerning your health while eating out can be really difficult. You enter the restaurant and gaze longingly at the fried everything, pasta, or maybe fluffy pancakes topped with whipped cream. Our tastes buds scream out in unison, “GIVE US ALL THOSE THINGS.” We’ve all been there.

Sometimes making the wisest diet concerning your nutrition begins with denying yourself certain foods. Sometimes it looks like doing the best you can with what you’ve got. Whatever the case, we want to help empower you stop and think about what you’re putting in your body when dining out. On this episode we depart slightly from our typical format to really focus on diet and nutrition, specifically when eating out. We talk about useful ways to trick your brain into making better decisions, how to ask difficult questions of the establishment, and how it's sometimes okay to bring in a LITTLE of your own food.

Some Topics We Discussed: What is the first step for making healthy choices at restaurants? (2:50)

Why should you prepare and look at menus ahead of time? (5:16)

What is clean food? (7:25).

How do we address macronutrients while eating out? (9:03)

What should we look for in salad dressings? (21:31)

The importance of quality fat in our food. (25:03)

Key Takeaways From This Episode: The biggest part of being healthy is your fork and knife. (3:11)

Pick foods that are real foods. These foods are the whole and unprocessed parts of the food from soil, pastures, and oceans. (6:35)

Your taste buds are programmable. (12:07)

Bring your high quality olive oil with you to restaurants. (26:44)

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