You are what you eat – how adding healthy food to your diet can help preventing diseases

Jan 19
13:08

2015

Yoav Shai

Yoav Shai

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All the researches published in the past years have the same conclusion- Choosing what to eat has a great effect on your health. So why do we keep ignoring them and eat junk that shorten our lives?

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All the researches published in the past years have the same conclusion- Choosing what to eat has a great effect on your health. Its not a big surprise to any of us,You are what you eat – how adding healthy food to your diet can help preventing diseases Articles living in the 21st century, after all, we learned how to eat properly from the beginning of our days, and were ever so aware to the connection between the food we put in our mouths, but along the years, as we grow up, we tend to forgive ourselves when we slip a bite to an occasional burger and a passing by burrito.

Its not that you don’t want to eat healthy food, it is just that most of us don’t really believe there can be anything interesting to eat when keeping in shape and taking care of what we eat. We fear that if we decide that we will start a healthy diet we are bound to live of raw lettuce and turnip, calculating our way through every meal, starving on a strict, tasteless and boring diet.

These notions are entirely comprised of the old-school point of view, referring to healthy food, such as salad and vegetables, only as side dishes which are forever to be served with a good portion of large, heavy and bloody piece of meat. This attitude is wrong in so many levels, due to the minimal lack of understanding in nutrition it represents, along with the dangers of misleading unknowingly some passing by listeners.

The most important thing you have to understand before deciding against devoting your life to healthy food, is that while you might enjoy a good steak or a burger or a steaming hot mouthwatering pepperoni pizza, you are actually poisoning your body slowly, blocking your veins with fat, thus bringing the end closer and closer than you might have thought it might be, developing heart diseases, obesity and many other illnesses.

The easiest way to save your life (no less), is to start eating one salad a day. Now, don’t give us that look. This is your health on the line, so you can ignore our good willing advice, but don’t come running with tears when it is too late. So start little, we are not sating you should say goodbye to the fat tasty cheese and butter you love so much on your bread, or that you should never eat another steak. Just replace one of your daily meals with a salad. There are thousands of delicious salad recipes out there, and each and every one of them could help you improve your life. So why not?