Healthy living habits are a personal decision, but it’s a lot easier to make them when you are armed with the knowledge of what is important to your body and what it needs. It’s also a lot easier to ask for help when you know what kind of support might work for you.
The benefits of a healthy living habits
1. A poor diet can lead to chronic inflammation and illness.
The foods you eat are the fuel that makes your body work. The food that you eat, can be from the group of foods called fat, protein and carbohydrate or complex carbohydrates (both simple and complex).
2. A poor diet affects your mental health and emotional well-being.
A healthy diet should include a balance of good fats, proteins and complex carbohydrates from whole foods. A lack of nutrients such as vitamins, minerals and essential fatty acids can lead to anxiety, depression, mood problems and poor memory function. As we age we lose nutrients at a high rate because our bodies do not efficiently absorb them anymore.
3. A poor diet can cause weight gain and obesity.
A lot of people think that fat is bad boy, but the truth is that fat is a vital nutrients for our brain and nervous system as well as for our hormone production. Foods such as olive oil, nuts, avocado and avocados are great sources of good fats that are important for weight loss. For a healthy amount of fat in your diet, you need to eat around 25 to 35 percent of your daily calories from good fats.
4. A poor diet can cause excessive weight loss or gain back weight.
This happens when you eat too much protein and not enough carbohydrates to keep your brain functioning properly, especially if you are exercising a lot or doing an intense job like a wrestler or an athlete in any other physical sport.
