“Discipline is the bridge between the goals
and the accomplishments”.
What we eat affects everything in our life; it
almost affects everything that is inside and outside our body. Any nutritious substance
that we eat or drink to stay alive and fit is known as “Food”.
Food maintains everything in our life, from our birth till we die, each and
everything is controlled by food or our intake. As vehicles need petrol/diesel
to run and function, humans need food to stay live and function properly. Now
it’s not only the food we eat affects our metabolism, the way we eat, the
products we eat, the nutrient value of the products, everything comes into
picture.
“Part of the secret of success in life is to
eat what your body need”
- What?
Most of us don’t know what to eat and how much to eat, we continue eating
according to our taste and emotional satisfaction. Not knowing the actual nutrient
content of it, or not knowing what our body needs at that time. Let us take a
simple example for understanding what to eat and how much, when we are tired,
our body is less in calories and needs more calories to maintain it. For that
we eat, lets compare eating a hamburger and a rich nutrient green vegetable,
when we eat large burger, it’s too heavy for our body, we need more energy to
digest the hamburger than is already consists of. Hence, we lose calories and
out immune system get weak due to less calories and energy. On the other side
when we eat Rich nutrient Green vegetable every day, out body requires very
very less amount if calories to digest it, and the calorific value of green
vegetable is a lot, hence we gain energy and be healthy.
- When?
We know we all have 3 meals in a day i.e.
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner these are the three major meals of the day. According
to studies, when we sleep our body repairs the broken tissues and small
internal body parts and for that we need energy i.e. calories. Hence, when we
wake up our body would have used a lot of calories in repairing tissues at the
night, so we have less calorie content in the morning so the heaviest meal
should be Breakfast, by this we regain our energy and be full on calories, but
still body uses calories to digest the breakfast, due to this we should have a
decent lunch- a good one. I between lunch and dinner it’s good to have a cup to
green tea, or some fruits. Now when we reach to dinner out body has good amount
of calorific value and it needs now is small amount of green food and lots of
sleep. 2 hours before going to bed, one should sleep and get a good amount if
rest. It has been tested and proved that women need more sleep than men as they
suffer more mental and physical consequences from inadequate sleep.
“One cannot think, love, sleep well, if one
has not dined well”
- How?
Finally the last but not the least
important thing is How to eat? – We till now got to know what to eat, when to
eat, and how much to eat, now let’s look how to eat. The most important thing
for out body is Air, and then water, let it be a girl or a boy, old or young
She/he has to drink a lot of water everyday to be healthy, oneself should drink
at least 2 litres (at a minimum) of water every day. For almost all of his life
to stay healthy and hydrated. Secondly when you intake your food, one should
chew it nicely, for at least 25 – 30 times so that it gets digested in mouth,
as more than 30% of food gets digested in mouth because of saliva.
Following these Good Food Habits, anyone can have a fit, happy and most
importantly “healthy” life. More techniques to manage our diet and healthy life
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