Beauty, health, and nutrition are all
integrated. If you eat a balanced diet you will be able to maintain your
physique and glowing beauty externally and good health internally. A balanced
diet is one that provides all the nutrients you need, the right amount of
proteins, carbohydrates, and fat. To achieve goals you need to ensure a good
balance in your diet, introduce variety into your meals, and practice
moderation. The basis of nutrition lies in your height, weight, dimensions, and
your daily energy needs. Once you know this you can compute what your daily
calorific needs are and set goals for weight maintenance, gain, or loss. By
regulating your diet you can be active as well as happy. You must: 1. Eat
sensibly. Include a variety of foods in your diet such that the 40 nutrients
that are required by your body are present. Make use of a food pyramid and
calorie chart to prepare tasty and nutritious meals. Follow the “Dietary
Guidelines for Americans” issued each year. 2. Eat plenty of whole grains,
fruits, and vegetables. They will supply you with essential vitamins, minerals,
and protection from several diseases. 3. Maintain your weight at a healthy
level. Successful weight management is one of the golden keys to good health.
By doing is you will lower considerably the risk of many diseases like
hypertension, diabetes, heart diseases, cancer, and osteoporosis. 4. Learn
self control, eat moderate portions. The secret lies in eating everything but
in small portions. Don’t give way to gluttony or greed. 5. Make a
time-table for your meals and how many calories will be in each meal. Never
fast, starve yourself, or skip a meal. Eat when your body demands sustenance
but not huge quantities. 6. Practice moderation. Good health does not lie
in eliminating carbohydrates or fats. Include all your favorite foods but
balance them with the rest of your diet. If you indulge your taste buds by
eating pizza one day, then try and do so at lunch time, never eat pizza late at
night. Ask for low fat cheese and healthy toppings. Eat just enough to satisfy
your craving not all 12 slices. Get a few friends to share you sin. The days
you indulge, eat sensibly the rest of the day—salads and fruits will help you
make up for the binge. 7. Be sure your meals each day include all the food
groups. 8. Plan to exercise every day. Either walk or take up aerobics,
dancercise, or join a gym. Exercise will not just burn calories but put a glow
into your skin, tone your muscles, and strengthen your bones. Exercise also
removes accumulated toxins from your body. 9. Maintain a dairy in which
you record your goals, and what you eat each day. Review your week objectively
and create a table that shows at a glance what you did right and what you did
wrong. This will help keep you on the right track. 10. Celebrate each
victory. Give yourself a present or take yourself out every time you achieve a
goal. By eating healthy, one can live a complete and rounded life without
diseases, reduce stress greatly, look and feel great, be happy from within and without,
age well, produce healthy progeny, and live life to the fullest. .
