Nutrition starts with eating food and drinking drink. The body then breaks down the food and drink into its respective nutrients. These nutrients then travel around the body to be used wherever necessary. Carbohydrates are converted into glucose or fuel for the body, protein is broken down into amino acids and fats are broken down into fatty acids. For a person to be healthy, a person must eat enough food to get a good supply of all the key nutrients.
There is a set of guidelines that the government publishes for 20 or so different vitamins, minerals and nutrients and those values are based on population studies, where they go out and look at the health of the general population and consider what people consume on a regular basis.
Is good nutrition based on certain food stuffs?
Nutrition is based on getting all the right balance of nutrients necessary for good health. A food stuff is a raw material that can be made into a food. Only eating particular foods or foods stuffs will not help you be healthier.
What is the difference between nutrients and food stuffs?
In the big picture, there is no difference between the two. You can look at anything that provides nutrients to the body like carbohydrates, protein, and fats. Food in general is just a carrier for nutrients. For example, take a loaf of bread - it has starch in it and protein and non-fat dry milk, the non-fat dry milk also contains lactose. It will also contain a high amount of minerals. The non-fat dry milk will contain casein, which is a non-fat milk protein. When you eat food, you break down the food to get nutrients for the body.
How does one go about breaking years and years of bad eating habits? What is the starting point for someone who wants to start eating healthier?
If there were an easy answer to the question we wouldn't have the problems we have today like obesity. Right now in the US 60% of the population has a weight problem. "Morbidly Obese" is clinically defined as being 100 pounds or more overweight. In our population, the number of people being morbidly obese is increasing year after year.
Changing a person's perception of food starts at an early age. You can show a person in black and white what foods are good for them and what isn't and it pretty much comes down to a conscious decision to consume healthy foods or not.
It certainly helps to have a mentor or life coach or fitness trainer or just a friend where there is some kind of relationship when it comes to dealing with eating healthily.
The fact is that you need support and one of the reasons there are so many weight loss programs is that they do something a little different, they have meetings and people get together and support each other.
When you gauge how much weight people lose on weight loss programs like Optifast or Atkins and whether they keep it off, all of those people probably within a 5 year period have gained all that weight back because they have lost their support group.
It speaks volumes to me that if people are going to lose weight and keep it off they need a support group. You should not be on a diet to lose weight, you need to be making a lifestyle change.
It means finding new ways of eating and develop new habits even for your everyday activities so that the new way you are eating becomes your new lifestyle.
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