Why is it important to eat right?

Did you know that Good Health starts from your kitchen? If you want to have a healthy body and mind you need to, for sure eat right. Whether you’re trying to lose weight, get in shape or just live healthy, eating right is the first option you need to consider. The food choices that you make today will have an immediate as well as a long term impact which will help you lead a disease free life.

Like a finely-tuned car, our body needs the right fuel (food) to achieve its true potential. Without healthy eating, your body's engine will cough, splutter and eventually stall.

Healthy eating is not about strict dietary restrictions, staying unrealistically thin, or depriving yourself of the foods you love. Rather, it’s about feeling great, having more energy, improving your outlook, and stabilizing your mood.

Did you know??

99 percent of all diseases begin in the gut(Gut is the gastrointestinal tract in our body, a tube which is 15 feet long, consisting of the food pipe, stomach, intestine and anus). A healthy gut helps you to have constant energy levels and keep inflammation at bay.

According to a 2009 World Health Organization report, 80 percent of all cases of premature heart disease and Type 2 diabetes and 40 percent of all cancers can be prevented by following a healthy diet.

What happens if you don’t eat right?

Poor nutrition can contribute to stress, tiredness and our capacity to work, and over time, it can contribute to the risk of developing some illnesses and other health problems such as:

overweight or obese

high blood pressure

high cholesterol

Cancers like Colon

heart disease and stroke

type-2 diabetes

osteoporosis

depression

Irritable bowels syndrome like; bloating, water retention, constipation and acidity.

Chronic fatigue and other critical disease

MAKE IT A LIFESTYLE, NOT A DUTY!

Why many of us are not eating right?

It’s not that we do not have access to the right kind of food or cannot afford food. Many Indians are overfed but undernourished. This means that we eat plenty of food, but the food is often convenience and packaged foods that have been stripped of their nutrients. While this may help keep us full in the short term, it doesn’t provide the nutrients our body needs to stay healthy. Neglecting to include these foods in our diet can lead to nutritional deficiencies.

Reasons for Nutritional imbalance:

Increased disposable income

Irresistible junk food outlets

Rise in nuclear family

Rise in social and business eating