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Healthy Eating
“To enjoy good health we should cultivate good habits and maintain discipline.
Only then we will be able to enjoy the pleasures of life. Undoubtedly good health
is very important. It is a blessing indeed.”
Food, from the ancient times to modern age, has always been
an important part of human life. Man cannot live without it, because it is the basic need of human being. In this modern age,
food has become very easy to prepare with the help of technology, and it takes less time to prepare a variety of food than
it took in the past. One can easily buy preprocessed food from
the market and it saves time. Unfortunately, these canned
foods should not replace the healthy food.
Healthy food is essential for human being, because it has basic effects on people's life and their behavior. Healthy eating is
not about strict nutrition philosophies, staying unrealistically
thin, or depriving yourself of the foods you love. Rather, it‟s
about feeling great, having more energy, stabilizing your
mood, and keeping yourself as healthy as possible—all of
which can be achieved by learning some nutrition basics and
using them in a way that works for you. You can expand
your range of healthy food choices and learn how to plan
ahead to create and maintain a tasty, healthy diet.
Healthy eating tip 1: Set yourself for success
big drastic change. If you approach the changes gradually and
with commitment, you will have a healthy diet sooner than you
think.
Simplify. Instead of being overly concerned with counting
calories or measuring portion sizes, think of your diet in terms
of color, variety, and freshness. This way it should be easier to
make healthy choices. Focus on finding foods you love and
easy recipes that incorporate a few fresh ingredients. Gradually, your diet will become healthier and more delicious.
Start slow and make changes to your eating habits over
time.
Trying to make your diet healthy overnight isn‟t realistic or
smart. Changing everything at once usually leads to cheating
or giving up on your new eating plan. Make small steps, like
adding a salad (full of different color vegetables) to your diet
once a day or switching from butter to olive oil when cooking. As your small changes become habit, you can continue
to add more healthy choices to your diet.
Every change you make to improve your diet mat-
To set yourself up for success, think about planning a healthy
diet as a number of small, manageable steps rather than one
ters. You don’t have to be perfect and you don’t have to