Beauty, health, and nutrition are all integrated. If you eat a
balanced diet you will be able to maintain your physique and glowing
beauty externally and good health internally. A balanced diet is one
that provides all the nutrients you need, the right amount of proteins,
carbohydrates, and fat.
To achieve goals you need to ensure a good
balance in your diet, introduce variety into your meals, and practice
moderation. The basis of nutrition lies in your height, weight,
dimensions, and your daily energy needs. Once you know this you can
compute what your daily calorific needs are and set goals for weight
maintenance, gain, or loss. By regulating your diet you can be active as
well as happy.
You must:
1. Eat sensibly. Include a variety
of foods in your diet such that the 40 nutrients that are required by
your body are present. Make use of a food pyramid and calorie chart to
prepare tasty and nutritious meals. Follow the "Dietary Guidelines for
Americans" issued each year.
2. Eat plenty of whole grains,
fruits, and vegetables. They will supply you with essential vitamins,
minerals, and protection from several diseases.
3. Maintain your
weight at a healthy level. Successful weight management is one of the
golden keys to good health. By doing is you will lower considerably the
risk of many diseases like hypertension, diabetes, heart diseases,
cancer, and osteoporosis.
4. Learn self control, eat moderate
portions. The secret lies in eating everything but in small portions.
Don't give way to gluttony or greed.
5. Make a time-table for your
meals and how many calories will be in each meal. Never fast, starve
yourself, or skip a meal. Eat when your body demands sustenance but not
huge quantities.
6. Practice moderation. Good health does not lie
in eliminating carbohydrates or fats. Include all your favorite foods
but balance them with the rest of your diet. If you indulge your taste
buds by eating pizza one day, then try and do so at lunch time, never
eat pizza late at night. Ask for low fat cheese and healthy toppings.
Eat just enough to satisfy your craving not all 12 slices. Get a few
friends to share you sin. The days you indulge, eat sensibly the rest of
the day--salads and fruits will help you make up for the binge.
7. Be sure your meals each day include all the food groups.
8.
Plan to exercise every day. Either walk or take up aerobics,
dancercise, or join a gym. Exercise will not just burn calories but put a
glow into your skin, tone your muscles, and strengthen your bones.
Exercise also removes accumulated toxins from your body.
9.
Maintain a dairy in which you record your goals, and what you eat each
day. Review your week objectively and create a table that shows at a
glance what you did right and what you did wrong. This will help keep
you on the right track.
10. Celebrate each victory. Give yourself a present or take yourself out every time you achieve a goal.
By
eating healthy, one can live a complete and rounded life without
diseases, reduce stress greatly, look and feel great, be happy from
within and without, age well, produce healthy progeny, and live life to
the fullest.