Maintain a healthy diet
A healthy diet provides an adequate amount of the essential nutrients needed to avoid deficiencies, but not too much that may increase the risk of nutrient toxicities or chronic disease such as heart disease, cancer, and hypertension.
Have you asked yourself these questions?
What is the best diet or health practices that I can adopt to prolong my life?
Should I be eating more to improve my health, or should I be eating less?
Can I eat anything that I desire and hope that it will in no way impact my health?
Am I getting the correct nutrients from the foods, which make my daily diet?
To get a clear picture of what our diet should be like, we can refer to the bible and study God's original plan for our diet. Whole grains, fruits, nuts, and vegetables compose the diet selected for us by God. Today most people diets consist primarily of flesh, a small portion of whole grain, vegetables, or fruit if any. The common diet today is so diffferent from what can be considered healthy.
We are not admonishing that anyone should cease eating flesh and convert to vegetarianism, but we should look to eating more of those foods which can improve our health. One of the most effective methods of improving our health is to always ensure that we have a healthy diet.
Why should you improve your health.
- Think of you family.
- Think of the joy which comes when you spend time with your friends and loved ones.
- How would it feel if a disease, which could have avoided, destroys your health and causes both you and your loved ones great sorrow?
Only if you had paid attention to your health, life would be so much more pleasant for everyone. Now everyone is in sadness because you neglected one of the most important aspects of your life, you health.
Everything that we consume affects our health in one way or another. The repercussions of our unhealthy eating habits may come about suddenly or gradually, but it will affect us at some point in our lives.
Learn to Eat healthy
Begin eating healthier my integrating more fruits, vegetables, and whole grain in your diets. A healthy diet helps children grow, develop, and do well in school. They enable people of all ages to work productively and feel their best.
Fruits and vegetables contain essential vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, and antioxidants which can greatly strengthen the immune system and help protect you from chronic diseases.The stronger the immune, the more effective it will be at protecting the body against disease causing pathogens. Always try your best to keep you immune system optimum working condition. It could be the cause of your joy or the source of your sorrow.
Grains contain an even better source of the nutrients found in fruits and vegetables. They are a good source of vitamins B, vitamin E, magnesium, iron and fiber, as well as other valuable antioxidants not found in some fruits and vegetables. Whole grain has the potential to reduce cholesterol and high blood pressure, blood coagulation and even help prevent heart disease, stroke, cancer, and diabetes. Studies also show that people who consume more whole grain products tend to weigh less than those who don’t.
Cardiothoracic surgeon and an award-winning author Dr Mehmet Oz, vouch this statement by saying, "Whole grains are an insoluble fiber, so it pulls water with it and it binds to all the other stuff you're eating that may not be so good for you. It gets the whole bolus moving on."
Eat well and you will live well.
Source:
Dudek, Susan. Nutrition Essentials for Nursing Practice. Hagerstwon: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2007.