RESTRICTION OF CALORIES
What a person eats is what that person becomes. All know excess of anything, except laughter, happiness, etc., increases risk to diseases, ranging from hypertension breathing difficulty, diabetes, osteoporosis, angina, heart attack, colon cancer or colorectal cancer- by no means this is a complete list.
The food eaten is released in the body to give the body energy to act – and that means everything, right from thinking, writing, walking, climbing up or down stairs. The energy that is released is called calories.
Every person’s need for calories can now be scientifically estimated by establishing a standard co-relation based on height, age, and weight. If it falls outside the standards prescribed for their height, age and weight, then they should serious consider their diets and lifestyles, at the very least. Help can be taken from their Physician or health care provider.
All foods and their preparations are not equal in calories. Thus there is a strong need for a balanced diet, and at the same time, adjust their lifestyle to a more healthy one. This is the key to good health, and of course, the person would look much better and more importantly, feel more energetic and enthused.
While you may be eating plenty of food, it is not enough. You must eat the kind of food that would reduce fat content, and yet retain the nutrients needed to stay healthy, and also restrict excess calories.
A balanced diet consists of fruits, whole grains, low fat or fat free milk and such like products, leaner meats, poultry, fish, eggs, nuts, and cooking medium which are low in saturated fats,, cholesterol, lower salt, especially sodium and added sugars. Choose salads of fresh vegetable.
Buy food that is nutrient rich. Ask for steamed grilled or boiled dishes. Yes, you can eat fried stuff, but it should be once in a long while. If you are travelling, stock up on fresh fruit, cheese sticks, unsalted nuts, cut up vegetables.
You have a wide range of choice, and you can vary them according to your taste and palate. It’s not as if you have to go off completely. Yes, you have to moderate and be practical.
Depending upon your recommended calorific need, you can choose from a variety of fruits, fruit juices, bananas, oranges, apricots or peaches and so on.
When shopping, read the nutrition facts on the labels. Most stores now stock what is called healthy foods, organic foods etc. Look at them and choose according to your prescribed menu.
To reduce your calories, the above has focused on changing your diet, by reducing your calorific intake for your own benefit.
Supplemental to your diet, another way of maintain your calorific value, or restraining it, is to go in for physical fitness activities. Try aerobics. Try walking. Try bicycling. These help in burning up the excess calories. These help in restricting calories. Become healthier by restricting your calories, and achieve the right level, and maintain, the calories recommended for you.
