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Let's Talk About Changing How You Eat
As you can surely understand, not fueling up with the right nutrients can affect how well your body performs and your overall health and fitness. Healthy eating can even have a major impact on how long you live! Even though healthy eating is clearly important, there are myths that can hinder your efforts to live a long and healthy life.
Farther down the page, you'll find a few informative topics about healthy eating. Knowing the facts can help you begin making better decisions about what you eat and how you eat. They can also make changing how you eat a lot easier.
1. Working out on an empty stomach is like driving without gas in the tank.
When you hear a rumbling noise in your stomach, or become aware of that well-known "empty" feeling, your body is trying to tell you something. Fail to heed the warning and you may be forcing your body to run without enough fuel. Before you exercise or do any physical activity, you should fuel up with a light snack such as an apple. On the other hand, you need to give yourself time to let that meal or snack "settle" before you exercise.
2. Relying on energy bars and drinks.
Although these sorts of "quick" nutrition can be just fine as a nutritional help every once in a while, many don't deliver the a broad range of vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients such as antioxidants you need to maintain health and prevent illnesses such as cancer. While they can help with energy before a workout, recovery afterwards, and, in a pinch, substitute for the occasional meal, they should never be a meal substitute. On that note, however, there are many "meal replacement" bars and powders out there and some may actually be valuable as a substitute for a meal. In the long run, fresh fruits and vegetables are almost always going to be your best bets, as they are loaded in vitamins, minerals, fluid, and fiber.
3. Skipping breakfast is a no-no.
Many studies have shown that skipping breakfast is not really ever a good idea. Breakfast not only starts the day, nutritionally speaking, but actually sets the body's dietary course throughout the rest of the day. During sleep, your body has been without nutrition and needs good quality fuel as soon as possible. Without a good breakfast, you'll be hungry throughout the day.
4. Low carb diets can be beneficial, but beware.
It's true that you, and I, probably need to lower our carbs somewhat, or make the change from simple carbs to complex carbs. However, your body needs carbohydrates for your muscles and the storing of energy.
5. Eating whatever you want is probably not a good option for healthy eating.
Combining healthy eating and exercise may broaden your food options, but it still doesn't give you free pass to eat anything you want. Everyone needs essentially the same nutrients whether they exercise or not. Getting these nutrients should be the first goal for good health. However, sometimes, especially in today's world, eating all the foods you need might lead you to eat more calories than you need. One simple trick is add a good daily multivitamin to your health regimen.
6. Not eating enough calories is not a good health idea either.
Although losing weight apparently involves cutting calories, losing weight too rapidly is never safe. What you should do, is aim for 1 - 2 pounds a week. You should always make sure that you are getting enough calories to keep your body operating smoothly. If you start losing weight too fast, eat a bit more food. An excellent article on this subject, "The 2 Pounds per Week Rule and How to Burn Fat Faster" has been written by Tom Venuto, author of the best selling ebook, "Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle".
7. Definitely skip soda and alcohol.
Some of the best hydration choices for active people are water, milk, and juice. You should drink often, and not wait to feel thirsty before you drink something. You need to keep hydrated through the day. By the time you begin to feel thirsty, your body is already getting low on liquid. Another point is that often when we feel hungry, it is because we are becoming dehydrated, so we eat when we should be drinking something.
Changing how you eat is obviously the first step towards healthy eating. Eating better will affect how your body performs. The healthier you eat, you better you'll feel. No matter how old, healthy eating is something everyone should strive for. Once you give it a whirl, it won't take long to see just how much it can change your life - for the better.
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