First of all, eating snacks all day not healthy, its better to eat one big meal, or two meals, then allow time to digest them, go into ketogenic state and a bit of autophagy. Eating a large meal before bed the best way to gain weight and develop diseases
Lets clean out UPF ultra processed foods, snacks, snacking, if you hypertensive with high blood pressure, developing fatty liver or Type 3 pre-diabetic or Type 2 diabetes, then I am talking directly to YOU
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Thousands of chemical additives along with seed oils, added sugars, too much salt, missing vitamins, missing mineral content, in America up to 73 of all food sold to the public daily consists of industrial global tobacco giant subsidiary bliss point engineered disease causing ultra processed foods in packaging, in aluminized plastic, in bags, in boxes, with a nutritional label, with an ingredients listing with more than 4 items, there is nothing wrong with buying ingredients and processing them at home into home cooked meals or snacks or things home made, but to improve shelf life & profit the kinds of things you get that are similar at the grocery store are very unlike what you make at home.
Whipped Cream is made of Heavy Cream & Powdered Sugar and Pinch of Salt, blended until thick, on demand, for whatever you want it for. Cool Whip is an industrial engineered disgusting fast easy alternative that sell well, but taste like chemicals, and not good for you, does not even look correct, smells weird, is nothing like the real whipped cream.
Rice Crispy Treat, at home, you get a box of Rice Crispy cereal, add a stick 8oz of organic butter to a pan, mix in a 15 oz container of natural marshmallow, turn head on and stir until it forms a thick caramel like substance, then pour into it while mixing the rice crispy cereal, until you end up with a thick crunchy dough, into a buttered glass pan, smashed flat and cut into squares, this is the home made natural delicious version, cannabis infused butter will produce magic rice crispy treats.
Bread made at home is made of flour, yeast, warm water, salt, possibly sugar to help yeast starter get going, but if you go to a grocery store in America, to the bread isle, reading the ingredients listing on a bread, many contain chemicals no one has at home in the ingredients, this is known as ultra processed bread, and has little in common with bread made from home ground wheat berries, sourdough starter in a glass jar you keep going daily, or natural organic bread of 5 or less ingredients like the kind that Jesus broke with his disciples, noting that modern GMO wheat as little in common with the heirloom grades of varietals of history.
If you make sauce for noodles at home, in a food processor, adding stewed tomatoes, Italian 3 herb spice, fresh garlic cloves, powdered onion, salt, pepper, some fresh cooked meat of some kind, even chicken or fish, sausages, you pick, blend the veggies and spices into a sauce into a sauce pan on low heat, add to it the cooked meat, let it simmer all day on low with a lid cracked, this will infuse the sauce with the savory meat flavor, then in salted water brought to a boil cook your pasta to the tooth or soft but not soggy, then place cooked pasta in a bowl, add a whack of butter, then spoon over it some of that meat sauce that cooked all day, its a delicious real home cooked version, and if you made the pasta from scratch, even better, cooks faster and tastes superior.
I could go on and on with examples of home cooked meals, the point is that when you are over 30 years old, your metabolism slows down as you become older, by the time your 80 years old, your daily calories use less than half than it was when you were 20 years old. This makes it far easier to gain weight, which is inflammation, and not lose weight in older age. This is why people 65+ in America have gained the most weight and have the most health problems.
Now, how to approach fasting, depends on where you are starting out from. Firstly you cannot be taking medications when fasting, because in the absence of food digestion the medications become dangerously potent. You going to need to dial down dose with help from a nurse or doctor to phase off of every medication, then start going for a walk every other day and slowly gradually increase duration over months, or years, build up stamina, then go from 3 meals per day, to 2 meals per day, then 1 meal & 1 snack near bed, then just one meal per day for a least a week prior to a 5 day water only fast, and its ok to take pinched of salt during the fasting to get rid of a headache or muscle pain, and you also going to want to drink more water all day while fasting, because without food glucose, your body will switch to making ketone bodies for your brain and body, by converting stored body fat into fatty acids which your liver then converts to ketones as alternative fuels to glucose.
If your significantly overweight or sick, you can probably fast for 10+ days, but beware, if you go longer than 5 days, fatal re-feeding syndrome can be a killer. After fasting, very slowly, over many days, reintroduce food, and focus on eating 100% natural, real, whole foods, minimally processed, perishable, so called edge or border foods at grocery stores, in the natural sections. Think about starting out with a 24 fast and see how your body responds. Wait a week or more, then try 48 hours, if you tolerate 1 or 2 day fasts, then try for a 3 day, or 4 day or 5 day, then wait months, then only go for longer duration if you seek toning and body fat loss.
