EAT TO LIVE

Food is essential and it does a lot of good to the body especially when we eat right. Food gives energy, warmth, fight sickness, lower cholesterol, regulate blood pressure, and blood sugar, gives good vision, boost brain function, provide nutrients for growth and repair of body tissues, also supply nutrients that regulate various organ functions. When we eat right, we maintain our health, weight, heart, skin, brain and longevity but if not, we have a sick, malnourished, haggard looking body.
We should be more health conscious in our choices of food by choosing healthy variety of food.

A healthy diet must be:
1. Rich in fruits and vegetables
For vitamins and nutrients
Fruits and vegetables decreases the risk of heart attack, stroke and cancer.

2. A diet rich in carbohydrates:
For energy and brain power
Foods rich in carbohydrate are high in fiber, aids peristalsis and bowel movements
3. A diet rich in protein:
For growth and repair of body tissues
Protein provides amino acid which are require to build and repair lean body mass

4. A diet with healthy fat:
To maintain body temperature
Fat provides the body most concentrated source of energy also supply essential fatty acids required for good health and enable you to absorb certain vitamins

5. A diet low in sodium:
For healthy heart and kidneys
We should discourage the habit of taking too much salt or adding salt to already cooked food

6. A diet rich in dairy
For healthy bone to muscle strengthening. The dairy nutrients provide a variety of positive health benefits. It is a good source of calcium, vitamin D and potassium to build and maintain strong bones and help reduce the risk for stress fractures.

7. A diet moderate in sugar
For healthy teeth and pancreas
About one third of our total consumption of carbohydrate is sugar, a diet rich in sugar will lead the body into health problems like, obesity, diabetes, cancer, dental problem and lots more

Eating healthy food without overdoing the calories is of great importance; most people ignorantly increase their waist line at the dinning table, this is why eating excessive amount of any food even when considered healthy may be harmful.
When you are eating to live, you put your health first at every plate of food you are served. It is important to eat to live to avoid the need for drugs and to prevent sicknesses and diseases that are prevalent in our today's society.

The key to good health is "Eat to live"  Unhealthy food and poor eating habit is dangerous to the body, it is one of the primary causes of sickness and unhealthy state of mind, unhealthy foods are food that are not rated in the classes of healthy diet as listed above, meaning bad selection of food.

Poor habits are:
1. Eating at odd hours
2. Picking on food
3. Skipping meal
4. Purposeful starving of self (when not fasting)
5. Eating for pleasure (when not hungry)
6. Gluttony

The trend toward a healthy lifestyle calls for healthy eating and a desire to "eat to live" our food choices should be influenced by a strong wish to stay healthy and live longer, not living our life's on medication/routing drugs.