Scientists discover intriguing dinner hack that can help keep you thin

When you wake up in the morning, do you wonder what you should eat that day? Are you sick of being mixed-up and confounded by conflicting media reports about the latest research on which foods are good or bad for us? One day eggs are unhealthy, and the next day they are a miracle food. One year the government tells us to eat six to eleven servings

TRY THIS: Next time you sit down for a meal, eat the veggies and proteins first and the carbs last. Note how you feel after eating compared to how you usually feel after a meal.

It’s looking as though we’ve grossly underestimated the dictum “You are what you eat.” Not only does what we eat affect us down to the level of our genes, our physiques have been sculpted, in part, by the foods our parents and grandparents ate (or didn’t eat) generations ago.

Doesn’t adding fat (from the salad dressing) to carbs lead to weight gain? It doesn’t – that’s a myth that’s been debunked. More on that in Hack 10, ‘Put some clothes on your carbs’

The answer is not to try to eat less; it is to decrease our insulin levels by flattening our glucose curves – and this often actually means eating more food, as you’ll see a bit later.