Get Off Junk Food
This is a post from WebMd that points out some things we all overlook.
I'm just going to come out and say it: The truth is, many of us get too many calories and not enough nutrients from fast food, candy, prepackaged foods, and sodas. Even if you’re not overweight, don’t be too quick to write off your junk-food habit as acceptable. Outwardly thin people aren’t necessarily healthy, as it’s possible to be skinny and in poor metabolic health, thanks to bad nutrition and lack of exercise.
Many of us feel compelled to eat junk food (after all, it can taste so good),but is a diet high in fat, sugar, and salt worth the trade-off of the elevated risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes and certain types of cancers? Kicking the junk-food habit -- coupled with regular, heart-pumping exercise -- will tip the scales of healthy living in your favor.
I want to point this out now before I go any farther. Eating food with no nutritional value, like a bag of chips, may fill you up, but it won't satisfy the bodies' needs. So very shortly, you will get another food craving and you'll eat something else without any nutritional value like candy, and shortly after that you'll get more food cravings and this continues until the body becomes uncomfortably full or you eat something with the nutrients the body is looking for.
Your body doesn't want fake food, it only cares about nutrition and it doesn't care how it gets nutrition, but it can't live without nutrition. By eating junk food, the body has to live off the stored nutrition it has built-up, but if you just keep eating junk food the body will use up all the nutrition and you start to suffer illness and disease. It's something that happens very gradual, so you don't even know it's happening, but if you notice yourself becoming sick too often, it's probably due to a bad diet.
So, get off junk food. Don’t know where to start? These simple guidelines will help you get over the hump in no time:
Knowledge is power -- and in the case of junk food, it can also be downright scary. While grocery aisles may seem fairly benign, they’re actually packed with misinformation and techniques employed by manufacturers to lure consumers into making unhealthy purchases. “They are doing everything they can to get you to make a spontaneous decision,” explains Michael Moss, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The New York Times and author of Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us. “Typically, in the middle part of the aisle on eye level is where they put the most alluring foods,” Moss says, of items like high-sugar cereals and salt-laden chips. The healthier alternatives, such as whole-grain cereal, are often located near your ankles or way up high. Another issue?
Many consumers take it for granted that labels and packaging tell the whole truth, when in reality, misleading nutritional claims (think: "low-fat," "all-natural," "added calcium") are often made. “This is where they’re going after you to distract you [with] positive messages, in hopes that you’re not going to turn the package over and look at the fine print,” says Moss. And we’re not just talking about cookies and candy here, either: “Wholesome” items like bread and pasta sauces are frequently infused with a ton of added sugar. So do your homework and be a discerning shopper. You might be shocked by what you find.
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