Small Change Huge Effects

As mentioned before, this healthy eating website goes beyond a balanced diet plan. Certain dietetic rules need to be observed prior to, during and after taking food. This is not a detail diet plan, but a few healthy eating guidelines.

Obsession with the quality of food often makes us avoid few general but important considerations regarding food. Try to make these healthy eating tips into habits and slip them into your lifestyle. Here only minor changes are mentioned which you can easily bring in your daily life. Start with this and gradually over days, months or years, move towards the major shifts in lifestyle.

• Eat only when you are hungry. Beware of false hunger as many people suffer from it.

• Do not eat when you are angry. Rest for a while till the mind becomes calm. The biochemical state of the body is not at all ready to take food and digest it, even if you force it down the stomach. Secretions of glands are harmful when you are angry and thrown into bloodstream.

• Try to take food at fixed hours.

• Take food as medicine. Very difficult but at least give up gluttony.

• Make a change in your diet gradually. Do not suddenly switch to excessive of non vegetarian food from vegetarian if you ever wish. If something disagrees with your body, then reduce the quantity. Do not eat anything which you do not like, but do not eat excessive of which you like most.

• Do not swallow your food. Eat less and masticate more. Taking your food hastily is just the beginning of the problem to come. Once in a while in hurry is all right, but if it is in your eating habits then change it immediately. It acts like a slow poison; you will never know why certain things are going wrong in your digestive system.

• Prefer to observe silence when you take your food.

• Do not drink water in between the meal. If that necessary take a sip or two, but do refrain from drinking water till at least half an hour after meal. This is very important for the digestion to take place. Do not ever use chilled water from freeze, as it is the first thing to act against a proper digestion.

• Do not overload the stomach. Best to get up when three quarter of the stomach is full. You do not need to measure in any way but you can certainly feel it.

• Do not do any strenuous work physical or mental after taking food. The blood supply to brain is reduced just after taking the meal. Digestion in stomach is not in any way a less important job for your body.