Why your daily diet is important for your wellbeing?
What you eat on a daily basis affects how you feel throughout the whole day. For example, if you feel tired or moody that might be because of what you had for breakfast the same day. Well balanced and nutritious diet provides you enough energy for the day and is reach with nutrients that are helping you to stay strong, healthy, maintain a healthy weight and prevent many diet related diseases such as type 2 diabetes or heart diseases and even cancer. How to change your diet step by step?
*Start with one healthy meal per day. *Keep it simple, your breakfast can be consisted of banana, oats and nuts only! *Remove processed food from your home. Packaged cookies, chips and crackers do not provide many nutrients to your body despite what their advertisements claim. *Prepare your favorite fruit smoothie before heading to school, work etc. and make sure this becomes an everyday habit. *Don’t forget to eat your leafy greens. Always eat salad with your lunch! How to keep up your fitness habits? Besides healthy diet, keeping active plays also a major role in your overall health. The biggest problem is how to continue with exercising at least three times a week or even every day? *Make sure the physical activity it’s fun and is a stress relief; *Never do an exercise activity or sport that makes you feel unhappy, you need to look for what suits you; If it makes you happy is most likely you will continue to do it at least three times a week or you might even start to be physically active everyday . Besides, exercise is a celebration of what your body can do and how much you can actually change your body with exercise and not punishment for what you ate. How to maintain healthy weight? *Eat healthy diet with more fruits, vegetables, legumes and grains; *Reduce the intake of saturated fats that are mostly found in: cheese, red meat, butter,palm and coconut oil (palm and coconut oil are found in most of the processed foods) and all hydrogenated oils. *Don’t forget to move your body, you can start with 10 min walking,everyday!"