Some thoughts on Nutrition and how you may view food.

"Man does not live by bread alone..."

- Matthew 4:4

 This may the battle cry of those who insist on dieting. However, without proper planning and a good nutritional guide, a diet is bound to fail and bring down one’s health in the process. Definitely, we should not live to eat, but neither should we live to be a model dress size. There is more to life than how you look and what you eat. When the Bible talks about eating, it is more for the nourishment of the body; and studying is nourishment for the mind. It emphasized both equally, and we should take heed. Dieting is not a bad activity to undertake until we start taking it to the extreme. If that happens, then we’re playing around with our health, and possibly our lives and the people who love us. This may sound trite right now, but regrets usually come too late. Are you willing to take that chance? 

How often do we try to fool ourselves by saying we’ll just take small meals, but sneak in junk food in between; or get a small slice of cake - three times in one sitting? The honest truth is, you know what you’re doing, and yet you don’t have self-control. It wouldn’t be so bad if the food you overeat is healthy snacks like carrot and cucumber sticks, but here’s betting it isn’t. One way to deal with this is taking hold of your eye candy, and learning to reel it in. Eye candy happens when we put more on our plate just because “it all looks so good!” The visual effects of food that looks good are what makes us gain weight. Keep this under control, and you control your weight.

  

“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.” Mark Twain

This is a tall order and sounds like torture, so how about if you eat to feed your body, not your mind; drink to help digestion, not to get drunk; and exercise to convert food into energy? During the time of Mark Twain, there was no such thing as double fudge brownies or decadent chocolate cake with a generous drizzle of caramel syrup on top. There were no fast-food restaurants or international cuisine around the corner. Food then was a lot blander than it is today. If Mark Twain were to live today, he would rephrase this. If you want to care for your health, you don’t need a writer to tell you what you need to do. You already know what it is, you just need to find the resolve to do it.