Nutrition

Should You Follow a Vegetarian or a Vegan Diet?

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 While I am not yet a Vegetarian nor a Vegan, I do include several vegetarian  meals in my weekly plan, and I  do encourage Vegetarian diets, which contain no meat (beef, pork, poultry, or fish and shellfish), and are naturally low in saturated fat, high in fiber, and full of vitamins, minerals, and cancer-fighting compounds. A multitude of scientific studies have shown that vegetarian diets have remarkable health benefits and can help prevent certain diseases, such as cancer, diabetes, and heart disease. I do  recommend vegetarian diets as a way of improving general health and preventing diet-related illnesses.

Vegan diets, which contain no animal products (meat, dairy, eggs, or other animal products), are even healthier than vegetarian diets. Vegan diets contain no cholesterol and even less fat, saturated fat, and calories than vegetarian diets because they exclude dairy and eggs. Scientific research shows that health benefits increase as the amount of food from animal sources in the diet decreases, making vegan diets the healthiest overall.

How to Eat a Balanced Diet?

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 One good way to achieve balance in the diet is to select foods from the five major food group every day.

These group are as follows:

1) Bread, cereal,and other grain based products.

2)Vegetables.

3) Fruits.

4) Milk, cheese,and other dairy products, such as yogurt.

5) Meats, fish, poultry, and dry beans and peas.

Choosing foods from the 5 groups will ensure that we receive the essential nutriments.

Control portion size so that balance and variety are possible.

Fine tune it.

Use sugar in moderation, use salt and sodium in moderation, choose plenty of vegetables , fruits,  and grain products. Choose  foods low in Fats Saturated Fats, and Cholesterol.

  • 4 calories per gram of protein
  • 4 calories per gram of carbohydrate
  • 9 calories per gram of fat

What Influences Our Food Choices?

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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?

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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?

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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!