In an ideal world, we would be surrounded by healthy food and our environment would encourage us to eat well but unfortunately, the reality is far from that. Wherever we turn we see calorie-dense, nutrient-poor and unethically and harmfully produced food. This makes it incredibly difficult to diet or change your lifestyle for the better. It raises the question on how to deal with the constant temptation of cheap and tasty but junk food, if we want to eat healthy, ethically produced food. We can decide just to trust our self-control but we also have the choice to avoid the things we don’t want to eat.
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The many benefits of Omega-3
All nutrients in our diet have a crucial role in our bodies’ function, from this fats are no exemption. Even more, there are some nutrients that our body cannot produce, therefore must be present in our food, like Omega-3, which is essential for our brain . The key to supply our body by all it needs is a balanced and colourful diet. We mustn’t forget about any of the food groups and use the resources given to us wisely.
Why our eating habits are less sustainable now than before?
Have you ever wonderd what the reasons are that our eating habits are less environmentally sustainable now then before? There are many contributing factors beginning with better living standards through population growth to our eating habits. Let’s find it out.
How can food affect our brain?
You are what you eat, maybe we should take this saying more seriously as a big portion of our brain is literally built up from the nutrients what we eat from the nerve cells to the neurotransmitters carrying the messages so food can even affect our performance, stress level and mood.
Rainbow diet to eat enough vitamins
3 billion people have micro nutrient deficiency on the earth, although people in western society have every chance to get the vitamins they need from their diet. Micronutrients have a role in immunity, energy production, blood clotting, growth and development, bone health and disease prevention. Only by eating diverse and colourful foods you can built a healthier diet with all the nutrients, vitamins and minerals you need.
Our food and mental well being
Our body gets the energy for it to live and thrive from food and as every cell in our body, our brain and nerves are affected too. Our brain needs a set of nutrients regularly to function well since it is built up from oxygen, water, fatty acids and many other nutrients. It is impressing that a change in our diet can cause changes in mood, cognitive functioning, energy and even behaviour and has a potential to lessen mental health problems. Eating is a thing that we need to do daily anyway so why not to use it?
Calorie calculation
If you are wondering how to calculate your personal daily calorie intake to have all nutrients needed this guide shows you the calculation method, you need to use. Your calorie intake depends on 4 factors: your age, gender, weight and physical activity. This calculation will show how much calorie you need to consume to maintain your actual weight. If you goal is to lose or gain weight than depending on that, you need to take or add plus calories
Problems of modern diet
Eating is a part of everyone’s life and although it has a great effect on a lot of things, many people don’t seem to think about it too much. Only if we think of it on a personal scale what we eat determines how much energy we will have during the day and not only the quantity but the quality of this energy. I think this carelessness happens for a very simple reason, that in 21st-century food is so easily available (especially for people living in the western society) that you can find something to eat wherever you are and whatever you do.
Basics of nutrition
Some diets say you should avoid carbs, and some say to stay away from fats. Although are these really based on hard facts? If we look at the definition of nutrients it states that these provide energy to our body and it can’t be a coincidence that all these things are listed here. Our body has basic needs for these different groups of nutrients as they work in synergy and it is important to keep our intake balanced to have a healthy diet.
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