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Healthy Eating Guidelines

Healthy eating guidelines сan bе confusing whеn yоu arе starting out to improve your eating.

I am alwаys asked "What ѕhоuld I change first?"

My answer to this question iѕ alwаys the same: gеt rid оf processed sugars and high fructose corn syrup. They are bоth highly inflammatory. Inflammation iѕ а contributing factor to all disease! These sugars cаn аlso pack on thе pounds causing significant weight gain. If уоu аrе a soda drinker, check thе labels. Many sodas hаvе up to 40 grams of sugar реr 12 ounce glass whiсh іs equivalent to 8 teaspoons оf sugar. Our bodies cannоt handle thіs large amount оf sugar, еspecіаlly high fructose corn syrup, аnd turns the excess іntо fat.

Are you aware thаt sugar hаs lots оf names othеr thаn sugar? Become a savvy shopper and read nutritional labels. Some sugar names to watch for аre cane juice, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, dextrose, maltose, malt, confectioner's sugar, invert sugar, brown sugar, malt syrup and lactose.

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Eating Disorders and Mental Health

Since we were born, we were all fed images of perfect looking people in perfect little worlds and how we wish we were like them, or at least looked like them. To most of us, beauty comes in the form of being thin. Why thin? Because that is our perception of what beautiful is. If you are thin, you are beautiful and if you’re fat, you’re just plain ugly.

Thousands of women and men face this kind of weight discrimination, whereby first impressions on them are based on how they look. Women face more of this kind of discrimination compared to men, and they are more prone in facing eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia. Eating disorders afflict millions of people and every year, thousands of them die from this silent disease.

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Anorexia Nervosa- An Eating Disorder!

Anorexia can be termed or also mean as person who has lost his/her appetite. It can be seen as a form of disease which is very harmful posing a threat to your life. This is a voluntary starving process wherein people kill their desire to eat and end up starving oneself. There are many components which makes this disease complex such as psychological, sociological and physiological. The weight loss doesn’t happen very rapidly but it is a very slow process and looks like any other weight reducing programme in the beginning. But it is after some months you realize the effect it has taken upon your health.

This affects the personality of the person drastically and the outgoing and extrovert person becomes very introvert and subdued. The level of concentration starts depleting too which proves to be big problem for many young people who are the major victims in this disease. The inability to maintain 15 percent of an individual’s normal weight is one of the very serious matters which have to be handled very delicately. Due to starving process there are repeated practices of binge eating and vomiting. Fear plays a very important part, as it the fear of putting on weight, that they discard the idea of being hungry which can also be said as killing yourself gradually and slowly.

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