As a matter of course, all responsible
persons should take the time to educate themselves, and their children,
about the benefits of healthy eating. Learning to eat for life in
a health conscious way is one of the best guarantees for a long
and fulfilling life. The quality of our lives is as important as
the quantity to most individuals, but because of debilitating disease,
we are often forced to make a decision and choose between quality
and quantity.
Thanks to the advances in modern
medicine, the average person’s life span now exceeds seventy
years. If you stop to think, that’s quite a long time to walk
around on this earth. Along with the wonderful life expectancy increases,
however have the detrimental effects of overeating and unhealthy
eating. It seems that as we advance in one area, we regress in others.
As we set out on the course of life,
from birth to death, eating is a constant. We eat to sustain life
to our bodies, and maintain optimal health as babies. As we grow
older, we eat because we enjoy the food we are consuming. This is
where the equation has become somewhat skewed. We are supposed to
eat because we need the nourishment, and hopefully enjoy the food
as we consume it. Not consume it just because we enjoy the food,
with little regard to our need for nourishment.
Eating for life is a concept that
should never have needed invention, however, here we are. Learning
about healthy choices, caloric needs, vitamin needs, and how to
make the best choice in order to accommodate all needs, requires
some education.
Many children reach adulthood with
no thought being given at all to the most important conscious action
we have: eating. There is no room for food education in our school
system; we’re too busy with mathematics and science. Home
economics classes, that were once a part of the required curriculum,
are now optional and very few students are exposed to the notional
education found in that class.
Health is taught as a science course,
and addresses matters of personal hygiene, diseases, and the broad
spectrum of health as it applies to the masses. No individual attention
is given to how to attain optimal health via our eating habits.
It’s funny that we skip the most important, fundamental building
block to good health: our notional and caloric consumption in our
food. I personally believe we should have the field of neutrino
and physical activity married into something combined to provide
every person that enters the school system with a personal knowledge
of their bodies’ needs, caloric, and nutritional, so that
they complete their education with mental and physical competencies.
For now, we simply wait until our
children have reached unhealthy, obese weights, and then put them
through the painful process of trying to regain their physical health,
and restrict their eating. Don’t you think it would have been
much easier to simply have prevented this problem, and taught them
good physical fitness and good eating habits?.
Eating for life is a concept that
should be as important to our educational process as our ability
to count. The ability to recognize our nutritional requirements,
find the foods we need to fulfill those requirements, and differentiate
between healthy food consumption and “unhealthy” eating
habits is not an option. Not for a healthy, happy, long, and quality
life.
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