| The benefits of healthy eating outweigh what we | | | | Why should we eat healthy? We should eat healthy |
| desire to eat. If we ate the foods designed for the | | | | because it can help reduce the many diseases we |
| human body, our overall health would be better. Even | | | | accumulate as a people because of our bad eating |
| though bad health is the result of poor eating habits, if a | | | | choices and habits. We also accumulate bad health |
| person ate fruit and vegetables more they would live | | | | conditions due to the fact that we do not exercise |
| longer healthier lives. | | | | regularly and eliminate the toxins the human body |
| In the beginning, God created us to eat fruit and | | | | creates. While eating healthy will produce good health |
| vegetables. "And God said, see. I have given you | | | | results, eliminating toxins within the body will also help |
| every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all | | | | when the time comes to eliminate toxins the body has |
| the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed: to | | | | consumed. |
| you it shall be for food." Genesis 1: 29. We are what | | | | Why should we eat healthy? Juices such as apple and |
| we eat. All our lives we have heard how we should | | | | prune juice, vegetable juice, and water helps keep the |
| eat three meals a day. While it is important to eat | | | | regularity of being able to eliminate our human waste. It |
| three meals a day, it's more important on how much | | | | is a fact that water is not a food. Yet, water fills us up |
| we eat and what we eat that counts the most. Eating | | | | with the right amount of water recommended for the |
| in moderation will help us learn how to have good | | | | body. Today, it is recommended we consume half the |
| eating habits. By digesting a certain balanced diet, our | | | | amount of our body weight to get the right amount of |
| overall health could easily be improved if we control | | | | water our bodies needs. Example: if you weigh |
| the amount of food we consume. | | | | two-hundred pounds, the recommended amount of |
| We have been taught from the time of being children | | | | water would be ten glasses of water which would be |
| how we should eat from the different major food | | | | one hundred ounces of water if you were drinking |
| groups. Many experts recommend that we eat plenty | | | | from a ten ounce glass. |
| of fruit, vegetables, and meats and drink plenty of | | | | Water helps purify toxins out of the body and water |
| water. A healthy diet consists of the five food groups | | | | also helps our skin look clearer and can make us feel |
| experts suggest we should follow. The five groups are | | | | healthier and better. Water helps eliminate gas within |
| in the categories of: "fats, oils, and sweets" which we | | | | our bodies too. Remember, the benefits to healthy |
| should use sparingly. The next group is: Meat, poultry, | | | | eating habits is eating healthy in moderation, and eating |
| fish, dry beans, eggs, and the nuts group. After this | | | | the proper amounts of fruits, vegetables, and drinking |
| group is the: milk, yogurt and cheese group. Then we | | | | plenty of water to keep us clean on the inside. |
| have the fruit group, followed by the vegetables and | | | | Why should we eat healthy? Another reason why we |
| bread, cereal, rice, and pasta group." This is taken from | | | | should eat the proper kinds of foods is to prevent |
| the U.S. Department of Agriculture/U.S. Department of | | | | chronic health conditions to remain healthy right now. |
| Health and Human Services Food Guide Pyramid. | | | | Preventative care should be taken into consideration to |
| The suggested serving varies among each group | | | | help keep us from getting sick on a regular basis which |
| between two to three serving a day for meat, milk, | | | | will help reduce frequent office visits to our physician's. |
| and fruit group. The serving of three to five serving for | | | | Preventive care will save our lives and it's easy on the |
| the vegetable group; to six to eleven serving for the | | | | pocket book as well when it comes to medical cost |
| bread, cereal, rice, and pasta group. While it is quite | | | | and expenses. |
| interesting how experts make suggestions, we as | | | | Our eating habits will affect our health regardless of |
| consumers need to remember these are just | | | | race, color, creed, or national origin. If we eat healthy, |
| suggestions and recommendations. The reality of food | | | | we will be healthy. The only way to make sure we are |
| consumption depends on your body chemistry. Some | | | | benefiting from eating healthy is by eating and |
| people are allergic to certain types of food. Prime | | | | practicing good healthy eating habits. While there are |
| example is my daughter, who's allergic to the nuts and | | | | moments when I choose to cheat by eating different |
| fish group for instance. Also, certain people are allergic | | | | types of junk foods, sweets, candy, and fast foods, I |
| to milk and wheat which is found in most bread | | | | have to remind myself of the importance of healthy |
| products. | | | | eating habits. I must admit attempting to stay away |
| According to the book Daniel only vegetables and | | | | from unhealthy eating habits is not an easy thing to do, |
| water were given to Daniel for a period of ten-days to | | | | I let moderation and discipline keep me focus to |
| test to see if Daniel and his friends would be in better | | | | wanting to stay in good health by maintaining healthy |
| health and look healthier than the king's servant after | | | | eating habits. |
| only eating vegetables and drinking water. After the | | | | I want to encourage each one of you to consider |
| ten days were finished Daniel and his friends looked | | | | changing your eating habits if they are not healthy for |
| better in appearance and they remained healthy Daniel | | | | you. Change is necessary especially if you have |
| 1: 9-15. | | | | certain health conditions such as: diabetes, COPD, |
| Vegetables such as: broccoli, greens, spinach, and | | | | high-blood pressure, arthritis, multiple sclerosis, |
| carrots are high in iron and many experts believe they | | | | congestive heart failure, heart attack, stroke, cerebral |
| may help reduce the chances of having abnormal | | | | palsy, asthma, emphysema, cystic fibrosis, melanoma, |
| health conditions. Over the years I have heard that | | | | and many other health conditions related to your |
| some meats are not good for us, compared to | | | | overall health and well being. Remember, you are what |
| seafood. Here again though, as I stated earlier my | | | | you eat. |
| daughter is allergic to certain seafood's. By listening to | | | | Eating raw live foods are beneficial to keep us from |
| your own body and seeing how you react to certain | | | | serious health problems as we continue to age. By |
| foods will determine which healthy eating habits you will | | | | starving the body for what it truly needs is not a good |
| come accustomed to. Vegetables help feed the body, | | | | thing to do. The body needs proper nutrition, exercise, |
| while fruit helps eliminate waste and cleanse the body. | | | | cleansing and rest. By eating more fruit and vegetables |
| Why should we eat healthy? We should eat healthy | | | | and using common-sense techniques to improve your |
| because it will help prolong our life and it helps our | | | | overall health; there is no reason why anyone should |
| overall physical appearance. One way to prolong life is | | | | not eat properly and be healthy at the same time. It is |
| by staying out of harms way with certain types of | | | | crucially important to start at an early age in life rather |
| food. An example is the consumption of pork. I can | | | | than waiting until mid life crises occur before wanting to |
| remember when I was a little younger and I used to | | | | maintain good healthy eating habits. |
| eat pork chops weekly. As I got older, I noticed I began | | | | Abnormal health related conditions can start at any |
| to have headaches after consuming pork chops, once | | | | age, so this is why it is equally important to start good |
| I monitored and notice my headaches were coming | | | | healthy eating habits to stay healthy. Our intake of a |
| from eating pork chops I reduced my consumption of | | | | well balanced diet of fruit, vegetables, and water will |
| eating pork chops on a weekly basis. | | | | help improve our overall health. The sooner we learn |
| Once I stopped eating pork chops altogether, it help | | | | these valuable lessons of eating properly and sharing |
| eliminate my headaches altogether. Why should we | | | | them with our children and loved ones, the sooner and |
| eat healthy? We should eat healthy because certain | | | | better our overall health will be. Your health will get |
| foods are filled with the right amounts of nutrition the | | | | better with age if you take heed of what you put into |
| human body needs. Antioxidants are good for us, and | | | | your body now. |
| so is potassium. Eating foods rich in antioxidants, | | | | Your child or children are an asset to you and not a |
| potassium, and iron helps keep us mentally alert and | | | | liability. Look, Children are a heritage from the Lord, the |
| sharp. Eating black grapes helps keeps your mental | | | | fruit of your womb is a reward. Psalm 127:3. If you are |
| stability sharp as well. You may ask how I know this, | | | | struggling with your parental rights and responsibilities I |
| it's because I eat black grapes and I notice how alert | | | | encourage you to seek God, and pray for wisdom, |
| my mind set is after consuming a fresh bowl of black | | | | knowledge, and understanding to make things better. |
| grapes. | | | | Copyright © 2009 Clark A. |