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.
