Forming New Eating Habits

What we eat and drink every day plays a crucial role in the way we look, act and feel. Our future health, how quickly we age, our longevity and whether we will succumb to often serious and even fatal degenerative diseases have been proven to be related directly to our lifestyle and diet.

The ancients stressed the importance of good food for health.

Some 2,500 years ego, physician-teacher Hippocrates proclaimed to his medical students:

"Thy food shall be thy remedy". Today's variation of this saying is: "You are what you eat." Whatever is the origin of this phrase, the point is that how you feed your body relates directly to your health.

Most of us don't think of nutrition as a separate, complete field of knowledge, but it is one.

It is a branch of biological science bases on the laws of nature. When these laws are broken, illness results. A great French physician, Henry Beiler wrote in his famous book Food Is our Best Medicine: "Health is not something bestowed on you by beneficent Nature at birth; it is achieved and maintained only by active participation in well-defined rules of healthful living- rules which you may be disregarding every day". What a great saying and a useful message to us.

Adult's and children's obesity and related diseases reached a catastrophic level in America despite of the abundance of high quality food, government studies, nutritional surveys and medical evaluations.

Diet is a broad term, it encompasses everything that enters the digestive tract, including food, drinks and drugs and may not be the only factor for maintaining a healthy body, but it is an extremely vital one. All that you put into our mouth eventually reaches your body's cells, creating the environment in which they grow, replenish and either thrive or struggle to survive.

Developing healthy eating habits requires awareness, education, knowledge, some efforts and most importantly, it requires an understanding that you are the only one who is responsible for your own health and well-being.

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