Healthy Food

By Ian James

Next time you are watching television or listening to a radio advertisement about food take time to really notice what they are trying to tell you. First of all, most restaurant and food commercials air around meal times. If you are a stay at home mom or dad, check out the commercials during the soap operas. Not only are you being brainwashed to buy certain cleaning products and diapers, you are ensnared in food commercials. The food companies don't really care about weight gain, weight loss, eating healthy, healthy food, or how you look and feel in your clothes, they want you eating their food and will use every dirty trick in the book to get you to buy it.

As a consumer, you will have to learn to fend off the advertisements. The best way for you to do that is to make some strict rules for yourself. The weight gain, weight loss, eating healthy, healthy food consumption should be first and foremost in thought. Try eating at the same times and at the same places every day. Don't eat in front of the television. You tend to eat more and not even notice it. If you are going to eat potato chips, put a handful in a napkin and put the bag away. If you have the whole bag, you may eat everything in it. The trick is to plan out your meals and make them healthy ones. It is okay to have a sweet every now and then. Actually, you should. You don't want anything to be forbidden, as we well know, something we can't have is what we want most.

A good tip is to fill up your grocery cart with healthy foods that taste great. Learn how to prepare them different ways they may make them more enjoyable. If you are getting fresh vegetables, try to get the organic ones because they don't have the toxic sprays and insecticides used on them that can get into your body when you eat them. Eat several small meals a day to keep your metabolism going to help burn extra calories. Drink plenty of water. Healthy foods don't mean that they taste bad, it just means that they are not loaded with sugar, fat and salt.

Everyone thinks about weight gain, weight loss, eating healthy, healthy food, and living a long and healthy life. A plan needs to be created to defeat the food companies' sirens calls and allow you to make good choices for yourself.

By Alan Hamel

Most people just love eating and knowing that some food is unhealthy they still cannot resist themselves from having them. It is when a person puts on a lot of weight then he blames his bad eating habit. But this bad eating habit is the only reason for people suffering from many health diseases such as diabetes, stroke and heart diseases. So it is very necessary that people start paying more attention to the food they eat and also try and develop a good eating habit.

When you start eating something you should always know whether the food will be beneficial for your body or not. You should always know which food to eat and which one to avoid. You should always make it a habit of taking a complete meal everyday which means you should not skip your breakfast, lunch or dinner. You should also try and include a bit of essential nutrients in every meal that you have. You may also have the habit of chewing some food and generally you prefer chewing some candy or potato chips. But instead of chewing such unhealthy foods you can better have some fresh fruits or carrot sticks. That will both satisfy your urge to chew something and at the same time you can stick to a good food habit.

It is also important to take at least 8 to 10 glasses of water between meals as it will make you full feel. You can also have fresh fruit juice as your daily beverage but you should try and avoid those with artificial sweeteners. You should also avoid drinks like sodas as they contain high sugar and full of calories. If you maintain a healthy food habit that will not only keep you fit also make you look and feel better.