Food and Health

One of the hardest things about losing weight is finding foods that are nutritious, tasty and low fat and so the ideal way to ensure that food is varied as well as nutritious is to create your own healthy eating plan. This is not difficult to do providing you are able to plan ahead.

If your lifestyle borders on erratic and unorganized, then rethinking your association with food on the run is vital. Developing a positive mindset is important when you start any healthy eating plan; this is simply because making changes to your current eating habits can be difficult but instead of seeing it as a negative process or as a necessary evil, think of your healthy eating plan as a challenge and one where you will succeed.

Learning all about the nutritional values of food needn't be a chore because the more that you can comprehend what those food sources will do for you individually; this will help you to develop a healthy relationship with food. When you create your healthy eating plan, you also change your connection with food entirely and this means avoiding issues such as comfort eating. Creating your own healthy eating plan will pay dividends in the long run and offers many benefits in the process.

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Some of the benefits of creating your own plan include:

· Fresh, nutritious food suited to your individual requirements
· Helps you to plan ahead so you buy only the food that is necessary saving you money on your weekly shop
· Frees up time during the week so that you can relax with family or do the things that you want to do.
· Preparing food ahead also helps to stop you from snacking in between meals.
· Learning to enjoy food. Mealtimes should be an occasion and one to be shared with family and friends. Too often mealtimes are rushed.

If you seriously wish to lose weight then it is imperative that you change your current eating habits. It can help to keep a food journal for a while so that you can start seeing any recurring eating patterns and if negative patterns do start to emerge, then they need to be addressed and eliminated. Stress or problems in general could make you waiver on your diet forcing you to comfort eat, if you feel that this could happen you need to create an alternative way in which to deal with those negative situations.

Once you understand how to make a diet work for you then it will no longer be an uphill struggle. Learn to work with your individual needs but just keep the focus on reaching your goal weight so then you will be much more likely to stick with your healthy eating plan.

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The following is the suggested diet for persons suffering from hypertension or some disorder of the heart:

* On rising: Warm water with lemon juice and honey or fresh fruit juice of apple, grapes,

orange, pineapple.

* Breakfast: Fresh fruit such as apples, grapes, pears, peaches, pineapple, orange, melons,

one or two slices whole meal toast, yoghurt, skimmed milk or soy milk.

* Mid-morning: Fresh fruit juice or coconut water.

* Lunch: Combination salad of vegetables such as lettuce, cabbage, endive, carrots,

cucumber, beetroot, tomato, onion and garlic. One or two slices of whole meal bread or

chapattis, curd, fresh grapes and other fruits in season.

* Mid-afternoon: One or two wholemeal biscuits and fruit juice.

* Dinner: Fresh fruit or vegetable juice or soup, two lightly cooked vegetables, one or two whole wheat tappets. The patient should also pay attention to other laws of nature for health building such as taking moderate exercise, getting proper rest and sleep, adopting the right mental attitude and getting fresh air and drinking pure wate.

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