Nutrition means nurturing the body to keep it healthy and functioning. Healthy eating is essential to your health and well being. We must provide our bodies with all the food, vitamins, and minerals they need in order to thrive.

Date:   1/10/2010 11:18:17 PM ( 14 y ago)

Nutrition means nurturing the body to keep it healthy and functioning. Healthy eating is essential to your health and well being. We must provide our bodies with all the food, vitamins, and minerals they need in order to thrive. A good diet is important for good health. A healthy and varied diet can help to maintain a healthy body weight, enhance general wellbeing and reduce the risk of a number of diseases including heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes and osteoporosis.

With our fast-paced lifestyles, we don't have time to devote hours or entire days to preparing healthy meals to nourish our families and ourselves. This has caused several problems, the major one being Obesity. To avoid or to cure this problem, people across the globe are part of some or the other diet and yet most diets fail sooner or later.

Why doesn't my diet plan work?

The reason of course is very simple, the entire focus of the diet program is to impose discipline by force using some motivational tool which could be anything ranging from fear (in heart patients or diabetics) to pleasure/happiness (new dress for an upcoming wedding). But the net result of all this is that once the pressure is off, the person goes back to imbalanced eating and regains much more than the previous weight. 

What is the success mantra?

The success mantra of losing weight is to understand the eating pattern and eating choices; why we eat the way we do and ultimately how much of it are we willing to change.

Our bodies have a natural rhythm of hunger and satiety which we frequently override by emotional eating. Human behavior is closely affected by seeking pleasure and avoiding pain mechanism. So whenever we have to face unpleasant emotions like loneliness, fear, anxiety, doubt, guilt or pure pain like grief we are most likely to develop abnormal eating patterns to soften or numb those emotions. Similarly, celebrations also induce abnormal eating which is way beyond the normal appetite. Breaking or modifying these patterns requires a great deal of personal will and a desire to change!....

Read the entire article at How to make your Diet Work

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