Healthy Eating E-Book

50MINUTES

• Herausgeber: 50Minutes.com
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Serie: Health & Wellbeing
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 46

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

Change is only 50 minutes away! Find out everything you need to know about eating more healthily with this straightforward guide.

Most of us are well aware that we should be eating more healthily, but it can be difficult to sift through all the contradicting dietary advice available to us and get a clear idea of what that means in practice. Coupled with the pressures and fast pace of modern life, this makes it all too easy to fall into bad habits. However, by taking a comprehensive view of our basic nutritional needs, it is possible to identify some fundamental steps that anyone can follow to improve both their diet and their overall wellbeing.

In just 50 minutes you will be able to:
• Learn about the fundamental nutrients that our bodies need
• Understand your body’s personal nutritional needs
• Discover the simple ways you can improve your diet quickly and effectively

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Healthy eating

Eat healthy, be healthy!

Problem: processed food, combined with our modern lifestyle, has led us to neglect our fundamental nutritional needs and is having a negative impact on our physical and mental wellbeing.Aims: to identify unhealthy snares and rediscover healthy eating habits in order to keep your body and mind healthy.FAQs:I rarely have the time to cook. How can I eat more healthily?Are “light” products better?I tend to binge when I am stressed or upset. How can I control my cravings?Is it much more expensive to eat healthily?I eat healthily but I am not losing weight. What should I do?Should I cut out all of my unhealthy eating habits?Do I have to go vegetarian in order to eat healthily?I have irritable bowel syndrome. Should I avoid eating fruit and vegetables?

Fatigue, a dull complexion, bloating, chronic pain, obesity and so on are all signs that our body is not working properly. However, we often choose our meals carelessly, disregarding the potential negative effects on our health and without knowing what really goes into our food. Why are we so out of touch with our body’s basic needs? What should we do in order to eat more healthily?

Our cravings, habits and even our emotions are influenced by the food we eat. In just 50 minutes, you will learn to recognise what the driving forces behind your dietary choices are and how to avoid falling into the traps of unhealthy eating habits. You will also learn about positive habits which will introduce you to a whole new world of healthier culinary delights. Regain your energy, lose weight and improve your physical and mental wellbeing with this helpful guide!

Our consumer society

“I’m a mother of three and I would like to cook more balanced meals for them, but by dinnertime I’m mentally and physically exhausted and I never have the energy to cook anything other than pasta in tomato sauce.” (Amanda, 42)

“I know that I eat very badly, but even though I’m aware of it I can never change my habits!” (Julian, 22)

“I would like to feel healthier but there are so many different options – high-protein diets, low-carb diets, raw food diets and so on – that I feel totally lost and I have no idea which one to follow!” (Carol, 26)

The power of unhealthy eating

Even though there is no shortage of food in Western countries nowadays, the question of which food to eat has never been more topical. Lack of time, (compulsive) cravings, stress, the wide variety of food on offer and addictive additives often lead us to make unwise dietary choices and form habits which can be difficult to break. Likewise, illnesses which are directly related to our diet, such as obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure, are having an ever-greater impact on our health. Hippocrates, who famously said “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”, would be turning in his grave if he could see us now.

There seems to be no escaping the idea of getting your five portions of fruit and vegetables a day, and television, magazines, the internet and adverts are constantly bombarding us with their own advice, opinions and recommendations, not to mention all the new diets which are constantly popping up and promising to change our lives. The processed food industry has also played a central role in this crisis, offering us products emblazoned with advertising slogans that proclaim them to be “low in saturated fat” or “a great source of calcium”, or any number of other nutritional buzzwords. But can we really trust what they say?

If you feel like you are drowning in a sea of contradictory messages, you are certainly not the only one. In this book, we are going to take the time to examine the processes which have alienated us so completely from our fundamental nutritional needs. Anyone can see that junk food can even overpower our common sense, so we need to ask what is really going on both inside our body and around us.

Watch out!

What is the deciding factor for you when you are choosing which products to buy? Is it the packaging? The label? The advertising that boasts of the product’s benefits? The slogan? The convenience? Or simply the taste, the flavours, and its nutritional value? Take the time to consider your purchases carefully and try to understand them. What gets your attention and what guides your decisions?

The world around us

In this globalised era, trading with the other side of the world has become commonplace. The days when our meals came from no further away than our own vegetable gardens and the local grocery store are long behind us (in spite of small-scale attempts to revive these habits). Of course, in bygone eras people relied heavily on seasonal produce and had to put up with very repetitive fare – it is not difficult to imagine them saying “Oh wow, potatoes again!” in deeply sarcastic tones.