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.
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About the author:
Paul Wilson is a freelance writer for
http://www.1888Discuss.com/health/, the premier REVENUE SHARING
discussion forum for Health Forum, including topics on health
care, Children's Health Issues, addiction, Cancer, fitness
equipment, Burns & Injuries and more. He also freelances for
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