Monthly Archives: June 2015


What Influences Our Food Choices?

Our daily food choices have a lot to do with our age, gender, genetic makeup, occupation, lifestyle, where we live, and our family and cultural background.
Also religious beliefs, food flavor appearances, nutritional knowledge, current health status, peers influences, income and others. We eat primarily for nourishment, but food symbolize also much of what we think about ourselves. We can use food to project a desired image. We cope with stress and tension by eating or not eating. Food can be used as a reward, or to celebrate national holidays and religious feast days.   If we take a moment  to reflect we can see the truth in the above statement as it applies in our life. Its useful to know which foods are really important and necessary to us and which are not so important, keep one and discard the other it.  — This if we will ever succeed in making  a lasting changes with our body weight management and in longevity in general .


A Fountain of Youth?

While most of us wish for a long life, we do not like to think of ourselves as suffering poor health when we are old. But we can only truly enjoy long life if we are  productive and free from illness. Rather than suffer the ravages of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, osteoporosis, and other chronic diseases from age 50 or 60 years until death, we should strive to be as free of diseases as possible and to enjoy vitality even in the last several years of life. Greater physical well – being contributes to a state of physical, mental, and social well-being. Aging is a natural process: your body cell age no matter what health practice you follow. But to a considerable extent you can choose how fast you age throughout your adult years. Genetic background has a great effect, but you also have same control in the matter. How you act now is important to your later health. Successful aging is the goal. You can choose to age fast or to age slow. That is where exercice came into play, exercise can and in most cases will allow successful aging.


How Aware are You of Your Nutritional Health?

Judging from the response of over half the people in severals large survey, Americans and Europeans are concerned about good nutrition and have a general awareness of possible health hazards from overeating, especially the danger of too much fat, sodium, and Calories. But many people  just aren’t willing to critically examine their own foods habits. While they may be concerned, they don’t necessarily make  changes to improve their diets. Most people enjoy eating and cooking, but they don’t think of or use the principle of nutritional science to change their life. I hope you will!