Eating Your Way to Good Health

Improve your health with good nutrition

One of the most important aspects of good health is learning how to eat right. Many of us don’t know the foods that are good for us or aren’t interested in eating foods that provide good nutrition. Although a younger person may get by with poor nutrition, as one ages, poor eating habits begin to take a toll on your health.

Develop Good Eating Habits Early in Life

Poor eating habits are very difficult to break. It’s a cycle that tends to start in childhood and will continue throughout life unless you stop it before it takes a toll on your health. The easiest way to break poor eating habits is to never develop them from the start, but that doesn’t happen for most of us. Sadly many of the poor eating habits we develop are because of the way our parents raised us.

One of the worst things parents can do is teaching their children if they don’t like something, they don’t have to eat it. Although at a very young age the paediatrician may tell the parents of a very finicky child to give them whatever they will eat, there is a time to end that cycle and encourage your children to try other foods.

Another mistake parents make is forcing them to eat everything on their plate, especially since most parents tend to give a child more than he or she can possibly eat. This early training creates an adult who will feel the need to eat large portions of food even after they have filled their need for nutrition. Eating until you are full is all that is necessary, and the portions should be small enough that you do not need to waste food.

It is better to take smaller portions and take more if you are still hungry than to be tempted to overeat. Our parents mean well, but only in the past decade or so has it come to light how detrimental these early patterns are as a child grows into an adult.

Enjoying Healthier Foods

Healthier foods do not need to be bland or tasteless by any means. Even if you don’t like vegetables that are good for your health, find a way to serve them that will appeal to your taste buds. For example, maybe you don’t like broccoli with just salt, pepper, and a little bit of butter—find seasonings that appeal to you. Maybe you would like to add garlic powder and cook them with some carrots and cauliflower in some olive oil. There are many different ways to prepare healthy foods so that you will enjoy them.

The healthier lean meats baked or broiled may not be appealing to your taste buds in the beginning, but as you learn to experiment with different seasonings, you will begin to choose herbs and spices that will make the leanest meats appetizing. Eating healthier foods doesn’t mean you need to bake chicken or fish without any seasonings but rather that you learn to use seasonings that are healthy. Choosing olive oil over vegetable is a good place to start along with choosing foods that have no Trans fat.

Making Healthy Choices

If you avoid processed foods and choose fresh herbs for seasoning, you will have a tasty meal that is also healthy. Snacks of fresh fruits and vegetables instead of high calorie sweets will also make a big difference in your general health. Learning to eat healthy after years of poor eating habits will take time and adjustment, but you will notice a difference in your health because of these lifestyle changes.

Sarah Fontaine

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