{"id":156,"date":"2012-04-09T00:05:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T00:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vartanutrition.com\/site\/?p=156"},"modified":"2012-04-09T00:05:42","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T00:05:42","slug":"you-are-not-what-you-eat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vartanutrition.com\/site\/2012\/04\/you-are-not-what-you-eat\/","title":{"rendered":"You Are Not What You Eat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eating simply can be more complicated than one might expect. Having a \u201cyou are what you eat\u201d mentality seems like a fairly commonsense approach to eating, but it oversimplifies the impact of food and food-like substances on our overall health.<\/p>\n<p>As an example, did you know that our cholesterol level has much more to do with the type of fat that we eat than how much cholesterol we consume? Different types of dietary fats stimulate our liver to produce different types of cholesterol. Not so simple, right?<\/p>\n<p>Improving certain aspects of your dietary health may not be as simple as they seem on the surface. Talk to a nutrition professional \u2013 what you learn may surprise you.<\/p>\n<p>You are what you eat in the sense that what you eat affects your overall health, but that is where the analogy ends.<\/p>\n<div class='wb_fb_comment'><br\/><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eating simply can be more complicated than one might expect. Having a \u201cyou are what you eat\u201d mentality seems like a fairly commonsense approach to eating, but it oversimplifies the impact of food and food-like substances on our overall health. As an example, did you know that our cholesterol level has much more to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class='wb_fb_comment'><br\/><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>You Are Not What You Eat - Varta Nutrition<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vartanutrition.com\/site\/2012\/04\/you-are-not-what-you-eat\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"You Are Not What You Eat - Varta Nutrition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Eating simply can be more complicated than one might expect. 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