Healthy Lifestyle: How to Make a Healthy Lifestyle Change?
Every day, dozens of times a day, we make choices about our well-being. Some of them are “must dos” — brush and floss teeth, exercise — but others are more negotiable. Seven or eight hours of sleep? Water or green tea with lunch? Broiled chicken or grilled fish for dinner? It’s the decisions we make about food that can be particularly vexing. We need food for energy — food is what fuels us, after all — but we tend to choose the calories we consume based on taste and convenience and not necessarily on how good they are for us. Today the American Standard Diet is causing us to become obese and contributes to the very diseases we are spending money to prevent. The American Standard Diet is • High in animal fats • High in unhealthy fats: saturated, hydrogenated • Low in fiber • High in processed foods • Low in complex carbohydrates • Low in plant-based foods The Standard American Diet or SAD is heavy on red meat, pork, foods made from dairy o...