How to start eating healthier TODAY

The purpose of eating is for energy. All the different nutrients have important functions in our body that help us get through the day and have energy. Instead of thinking about food negatively, try to think about the positive effects of foods. Think about what the food you are about to eat will do for you; for example, a breakfast of oatmeal and fruit will give me energy to start my day and has fiber to make me feel satiated. Eating the proper foods and the amount you eat at a time can affect your day and how you feel. Tips To Start Eating Healthier - Don’t skip breakfast. Breakfast really is the most important meal of the day. You haven’t eaten for more than 8 hours and your body has burned or stored the calories you ate from the day before already. Breakfast is that first meal that can set the tone for the rest of the day. Try to make breakfast healthy by having a whole grain food with a fruit or vegetable and some protein and fat. For example, oatmeal with nuts and berries and a hard boiled egg or whole grain toast with peanut butter and an apple. - Don’t let more than 4-6 hours go by without eating a meal or snack. If you wait until you’re starving, you will risk the chance of overeating or making an unhealthy choice. - Portion control your food; this will help balance out your nutrients and make sure you get enough of what your body needs to feel satiated. - Avoid too many processed foods; these foods can be very salty, which can dehydrate you, and your body breaks down and uses real and fresh food most efficiently. - Read labels, more importantly, the ingredient label. If there is a long list of ingredients that look foreign to you, do you really want to put that food in your body? - Go for color when preparing your meals and snacks; variety will ensure that you get the proper nutrients to get you through the day. - Aim to eat a fruit or vegetable at each meal. The FDA recommends at least 5 servings of fruits and/or veggies a day. This is hard to do if you wait until dinner to eat all your nutrients. - Dining out less and cooking at home more will help you to control what you are eating and how much. Planning ahead as much as you can will help you get through a busy week. You need to grocery shop and plan your week in order to eat healthfully. Bring healthy snacks with you so you won’t be stuck at the vending machine or starving at your next meal. - Keep a food journal; this will make you more aware of what’s going in your mouth. You may think twice if you have to write it down. Eating healthy takes effort and discipline. If these suggestions seem overwhelming, do one change at a time. This will help to keep your healthy changes a habit and will eventually lead to a long-term lifestyle.

The Disadvantages of Eating Meat

There are many physical disadvantages to eating meat. Some of these disadvantages are:

1. A meat-eater not only takes in the animal cells and fats, etc. but also the waste products, e.g. chemically treated food fed to the animals, drugs injected into the animal in the slaughter house, intoxicants, coloring and tenderizers sprayed on the dead animal by the market suppliers. By the way, hamburgers are made from Cow with the four D’s (Dead, Dying, Disabled, or Diseased) This is way so many children and young adults have died from eating hamburgers. It's also the reason why hamburgers have the highest recall of E-Coli.

2. It is also suspected that meat-eaters are prime candidates for degenerative diseases such as high blood pressure, arthritis, gout, etc. Meat is one of the major sources of internal pollution. When an animal is slaughtered, un-eliminated waste products remain in the tissue of the animal which often give the meat its stimulating flavor. Uric acid and adrenaline are secreted into the bloodstream, muscles of animals and stored. The fear and struggle to escape death stimulates the secretion of hormones like epinephrine and norepinephrine. Most animals (especially cows) are injected with steroids before they are slaughtered. No edible plant product has similar toxicity. The human body has to work 15 times more to get rid of these toxin.

3.A parasite known for inducing miscarriage, blindness, jaundice and nervous disorders in newborn babies was found in samples of animal meat from abattoirs and markets (particularly in third world countries). An article in the German Bunte magazine, entitled 'Karnka von Tiere' (Diseases from Animal) pointed out the diseases that arise from consumption of meat, apart from the reckless wastage of precious land and natural resources for livestock breeding.

The article also emphasized on the benefits of meatless diet and the current trend towards vegetarianism by an increasing number of Germans and other Europeans, especially amongst the younger generation. As a result of overall concern for health, meat consumption in the west is declining. According to the Vegetarian society in UK, 9% of the population in UK and US are complete vegetarians with the number constantly increasing.

4.To preserve fish and prawns and other crustaceans, boric acid is widely used by food manufacturers. It attacks the liver and the brain, causing fits and coma before the victim dies of liver damage. Fruits and vegetables, however heavily sprayed, don't grow hormones, antibiotics and other drugs common in meat products.

5.Pigs carry trichinosis bacteria that cling to the walls of the stomach and intestines, which can be fatal. Beef and pork are highly acid forming and release into the blood-stream toxic poisons and microbes. But the WBC in blood may not be sufficient to destroy these microbes and so the toxic reactions set in.