What Is A Healthy Diet?
by Alan
LeStourgeon
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What is a healthy diet? It’s not about counting calories, measuring
portions or cutting carbs. A healthy diet is all about what you eat rather
than how much you eat.
What is a healthy diet?
It’s not about counting calories, measuring portions or cutting carbs. You
won't really find a healthy diet on the lite menu at your favorite
restaurant and you certainly won't find it at the local fast food joint. A
healthy diet is all about what you eat rather than how
much you eat.
If you think the latest fad diet is your panacea to health, you are in
for a big surprise. Losing weight, staying healthy and getting back into
shape after many years of diet neglect is not about fads or eating in some
radical new way for six to twelve weeks and then going back to the way you
used to eat.
The best thing you can do to keep yourself healthy is to eat a healthy
diet…all the time, not just when you want to lose weight. Eating healthy
is a long-term lifestyle choice, something you need to do for your entire
lifetime.
But what is a healthy diet? Is it what we have been lead to believe –
milk for strong bones and teeth, protein in the form of lean beef or
chicken and maybe a “healthy” microwave dinner if we are “on the go.”
Unfortunately this diet is what is identified as the Standard American
Diet or the SAD.
And what's so wrong with the SAD?
Well, has it made us a healthier people? Are we better off as a nation
because of it?
With all of the health studies, advanced health care, the war on cancer
dating back to the 70’s, and the most advanced technology available on the
planet we have to ask ourselves why do we still need to spend $1.3
trillion a year on health care in the United States. Why aren't we getting
any healthier?
Other pertinent questions about your health beg for answers such as,
why after more than 30 years since the “War On Cancer” was declared, do we
still have an increasing cancer rate. Yes, we have many more people
survivin g cancer but the rate at which people are
getting cancer is increasing. We have come a long way in
taking care of sick people, but we haven't made any progress as a nation
in preventing those people from getting sick.
Why do more than 15 million people in the United States have diabetes?
Why do we still have more heart problems today than we did 30 years ago?
Why is more than 50% of our population on some kind of prescription
drug?
We spend more per person on medical care than any other nation in the
world. Why is this happening in a country that seems to be able to solve
nearly any technological problem? Why can't we solve our medical problems?
How would life be different for us if we were to be a nation of healthy
individuals?
The secret to a healthy diet and a healthy life is living
food – fresh vegetables, fruit, juices and green leafy salads.
The answer to a healthier you is summed up in three words, breakfast,
lunch and dinner.
Living a healthy life and having a healthy family is all about eating a
healthy diet, every day of our lives!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Alan LeStourgeon along with his wife Jean run the web site www.ezHealthyDiet.com
where they explore what it means to eat a healthy diet, have a
healthy
home and live a healthier life.blank" http://www.hiptobefit.com/ and you
can contact him at info@hiptobefit.com.
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