EATING RIGHT

EATING  RIGHT

BORING!! HEEHEE!!

This is a topic many people will not want to hear especially the young adults, as it was supposedly meant for aged and overweight people. This approach is wrong as healthy living concerns us all. This is a call for concern to everybody, as we often use this adage “a stitch in time saves nine”.

The earlier we begin to handle these issues, the less we deal this so many illnesses like diabetes, heart disease etc that is so common in our society as its also affects young adults.

Three of the four leading causes of death across the world today are related to diet. Two-thirds of adults all over the world are overweight or obese,including children, we clearly need help in understanding what it takes to lead healthier lives. But instead of depriving ourselves, we should aim for variety and balance in our diet. This is hardly new,but its worth restarting.

Eating right does not have to be boring, its all about eating the right food at the right time in other to maintain a great weight, increase metabolism and overall happiness.Eating right is important to staying at a healthy weight and keeping an energy balance—the balance between the calories in what you eat and drink, and calories you burn when moving.

The same amount of ENERGY IN (calories consumed) and ENERGY OUT 

(calories burned) over time = weight stays the same

More IN than OUT over time = weight gain

More OUT than IN over time = weight loss.

Numerous foods can affect the way we function throughout the day--mentally and physically. In fact, what we eat drives our daily performance, social interactions, and emotional well-being.

A good breakfast can improve your brain power and keep you motivated. A nice well prepared lunch and super dinner made with plenty fruits and vegetables can keep you well assured,drinking 3 to 4 liters of water per day keeps your body energized.

    Eating right and being physically active, are activities within your control.

Healthy choices begins with you, but they also may be influenced by your environment—where you live, your family's traditions and habits.

To lose weight, it's important to make lifestyle changes with a focus on reducing calories from food and beverages, a healthy eating plan, and portion control.Over time, these changes will become part of your everyday routine.

 Healthy eating is not about strict dietary limitations, staying unrealistically thin, or depriving yourself of the foods you love. Rather, it’s about feeling great, having more energy, improving your outlook, and stabilizing your mood.

Eating more fruits and vegetables, cooking meals at home, and reducing your fat and sugar intake, on the other hand, may help to improve mood and lower your risk for mental health problems

You have to make your new way of eating part of your life." "It can't be a 'diet' or you'll go off it." "The reason people regain weight is that they go back to their old way of eating."

How can you transition from a "diet" to a "way of eating?" Here are some tips to help you on this path.

1) Find the Right Amount of Carbohydrate for You

The idea of carb reduction is that eventually you will figure what carb level keeps you at your best - high energy, low hunger, lowest sustainable weight , stable blood glucose. Ideally, the amount of carbohydrate you eat will be low enough not to be flirting with the side effects of high-carb eating too often, but this is different for every person. 

Once you find your carb level and experience how good you feel when eating the correct amount of carbohydrate for your body (and how you don't feel so good when you are eating too much carbohydrate) you will be on the path to seeing low carb eating as "the way you eat" rather than "a diet.

2) Learn Simple Cooking Techniques

If your idea of cooking is "slaving in front of a stove", let's change that right now. So many delicious, healthy meals can be made in minutes if you have a few easy-to-learn cooking skills. Any chef will tell you that simple is often best. Learn how to make one food you really like, and get good at it - then add another, and another. Amaze your friends! Cooking can actually be a relaxing, creative activity if you get into the mood.

2) Make it About Health.

Health is more important than anything and has to be taken serious at all times.If you were allergic to wheat, you would learn to get along without it. In restaurants, you would get used to ignoring the bread basket, asking for no croutons, not ordering pasta, etc. Sure it would be hard - at first. But eventually, it would just be "the way you eat." You would know that this is just the way your body is. There are many medical conditions which force people to adjust their way of eating - permanently.

Embrace it and make a great turn round about your health and you will experience this great joy within.

3)Eat fruits and vegetables

Eating more fruit and veg is essential both for good health and to help us lose weight. Most fruits and vegetables are low in calories and fat, and high in fibre – three essential ingredients for successful weight loss. Most also contain plenty of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, all of which are important for helping us to look and feel our best and to protect us from disease.

4)Eat plenty of fiber

We often hear that we should get plenty of fiber to help with digestion, but fiber provides many other benefits as well.

Fiber helps to reduce the risk of heart disease by helping to lower cholesterol, lowering high blood pressure and preventing obesity. Soluble fiber, like that found in beans, barley and oats, helps to lower cholesterol by soaking up cholesterol-rich bile acids in the intestinal tract so they can be excreted.

5)Limit refined carbohydrates

Carbohydrates are necessary for your health, but not all carbs are equal. Healthy carbohydrate sources include whole grains, vegetables and fruits. You'll typically find unhealthy carbohydrates -- often called refined, bad, empty or simple carbs -- in pre-packaged meals and fast foods. The ingredients in these foods undergo heavy processing, which diminishes their health benefits.

6)Choose lean proteins.

Fortunately, not all animal foods that are high in protein are also high in saturated fats. "Keep your protein intake up and your saturated fat intake down by choosing lean protein sources like skinless white poultry, egg whites, fish, and low-fat dairy products

7)Choose fats wisely

Diabetes increases your chances of having a heart

attack or a stroke. But you can protect your

heart and blood vessels by choosing fats wisely.

Some kinds of fat, such as butter and shortening,

can increase your cholesterol and your chances

of heart disease. Other kinds, such as olive oil

and canola oil, protect your heart by lowering

your cholesterol levels.

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