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Nutrition and Healthy Eating:
Nutrition as it applies to
our daily lives means that we take in what we need to maintain our
body’s healthy state. Nutrition has become an important word
thanks to the involvement of the USDA in our daily food requirements,
and the FDA’s involvement in determining what is and is not
dangerous for us to consume.
What about eating habits? What about vitamins? What role does our
daily intake play in our health? More than you have been lead to believe
or understand. The body’s ability to remain well under anything
other than ideal conditions is a direct result of the nutrition received
on a daily basis. The mind’s ability to remain well is, again,
a direct result of our nutritional intake. For instance, the human
brain doesn’t develop well without the necessary input of protein
in our daily diet. No protein, no intelligence.
Nutrition refers to the nurturing of our body, in our ability to keep
it healthy and functioning as it is supposed to do. Our ability to
provide the body with all the necessary food, vitamins, and minerals
so that we continue to thrive in our daily life processes.
How do we determine that we are providing the essential nutritional
needs? That knowledge comes by educating ourselves about what our
individual needs are, the needs of our family, and then taking that
knowledge and applying it to the foods we buy, that we prepare, and
that our families consume.
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 nutritional
and caloric consumption in our food. I personally believe we should
have the field of nutrition 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,
as well as analytical and mathematical competence.
Nutrition 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
What we should absorb as we travel along life’s daily path is
a way to incorporate good nutrition into our lifestyle. There is generally
just as much room for good as there is bad, it just so happens that
bad nutritional habits hold more appeal.
Bad nutrition receives more advertising dollars than healthy nutritional
options, and is often more visible. But that doesn’t mean it’s
any easier, more convenient, or cheaper. Habits, generally take about
two weeks to make the switch from conscious action to unconscious
thought. Two weeks is not long, it’s not long at all for decisions
that will affect you for the rest of your life. It’s also not
long for the potential reward that comes from setting an example your
children can follow, and you can be proud for them to follow. You
teach them daily about the good habits you want them to develop, and
then you demonstrate a bad one in your nutrition choices. C’mon,
mom and dad, let’s practice what we preach.
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