Your Realistic Approach For Healthy Eating

I made a habit of doing pushups four times every week for over ten years, my arms were rather strong but it did not transpire in a short time. When I did not do pushups for a couple months a little of of my strength was lost. It was necessary to make push ups a part of my daily life if I desired to continuously see the results.

The same holds valid when it comes to healthy eating. You will never be healthy, eating healthy only once in awhile. You should make eating good food a habit if you want to attain nutritional health. It is common to get on the "band wagon" of nutritional eating when they read books or review websites that talk about healthy foods. While several of these resources offer information to you how you need to eat in-order to be more healthy, they often fail to show you how to make nutritional eating a habit. Consequently, when compulsions come, a lot of people fall right back into their old unhealthy eating habits.

What is a Habit? According to Webster's dictionary a habit is "a behavior pattern acquired by frequent repetition or physiologic exposure that shows itself in regularity or increased facility of performance."

Can you see that if we simply apply this attitude to eating nutritios foods we will be on our way to vibrant health?

Poor Eating Habits:

Bad eating habits do not grow over a few days. For many people habits like these began to take shape when they were young. Hence, a good explanation why many adults have a hard time stopping their bad eating habits is because these habits (have been|were} a part of their lifestyle for many years.

Reasons We Eat Food?

There are 2 primary reasons why we eat food. One is to supply energy for our body. Another reason is for gratification. Unfortunately a lot of of the foods that provides us gratification are unhealthy.

Many individuals make their snack and food choices based on what they smell, see or taste. take a look at the following three sentences: That piece of pie sure looks good! The pie sure smells good! The pie sure tastes good!

Notice that all 3 sentences combine eating and enjoyment. However the food that is producing the gratification (in this situation the pie) may or may not be good for you from a nutritional perspective. That is why we should be sensible in our food selections and not just leave it up to our sense of smell, sight or taste.

Healthy Eating Can Be Enjoyable:

Some people imagine healthy eating as being tedious and bland. I think that one reason they think this way is due to a lot of the commercial advertising we see market snacks or foods that are high in calories, fat, or sugar and only a small percentage of food marketing is done for healthy food items. Thus if there was more nutritional teachings, and additional marketing that endorses healthy foods, more and more people might consider healthy eating to be enjoyable and tasty.

How Healthy Eating Improved My Life:

In 1998 my wife finally talked me to going to the doctor to get a physical. I was not feeling ill but she plainly said that I needed to get a yearly exam. Thank God I listened to her.

I have been a runner most my life. I have ran 18 miles every week. So when I finally went to my physician I was not expecting to hear the unpleasant news he shared with me. He told me I had borderline diabetic.

Diabetes could be very dangerous if untreated. It is a leading cause of death in the United States. It is a disease of the pancreas that causes the body to stop generating the insulin needed to control the level of sugar in the blood.

My physician told me that I did not have to start taking prescription medication, however he suggested I start looking into some books and articles on eating healthy. That was the start of my path to eating healthy habits that turned my poor health situation around. Now I can in all honesty tell you that I am in near perfect health. I feel awesome, I sleep great, people tell me that I don't look my age, I maintain a healthy weight, I do not take any kind of medication, my blood pressure is where it is supposed to be, my blood sugar level is normal, my cholesterol is where it is supposed to be, my immune system is strong, and the list goes on.

It is feels great to be in good health and I thank God for it. Nevertheless I don't think that I am in good health by accident. I strongly know that the main reason that I am in good health is because I take personal responsibility for my health. Making eating healthy a habit is a big portion of this responsibility. Our physical bodies have laws that are ruled by suitable nutrition. If we violate these laws by consistently taking in poorly nutritios foods, we are probably going to get sick.

For many people today, eating healthy goes along with organic eating. If you are seeking for new information on these subjects please use the following links: Benefits Of Eating Healthy or Organic Food