3/12/14

Diet

"I'm on a diet..."
I hope you don't say it this way. People who are already skinny but on a diet for their whole life have problems in their health,  both mentally and physically. 
I am sure our brain won't work properly when we are not physically healthy. There are so many reasons for some mental illness related to physical health, or physical health related to mental illness, from medical and scientific perspective. 
I talk about the details in my class, so if you are seriously interested in this topic, please feel free to join us. 
To make a long story short, it's better to eat healthy meals everyday without the thought of loosing weight. Instead, I recommend for you to think about what your body needs. 
What you should feed your physical structure can be very different food than what you may think you need. 
Life style has changed with the times. Sometimes, you live under huge stress, or sometimes, you are just too busy. Also, the nutrition in any food is less than the old times because of the huge environmental shift. It could be because of today's modified food growth methods.  
Every second, your body's cells are reborn. When they don't get enough nutrition, they start to protect themselves, which means they will take nutrition from somewhere else...YOUR BODY. You may loose weight... however, you will definitely loose health, as well. Your body will suffer starvation. 
I see many people who don't eat proper meals but have potato chips, chocolates, or cakes, etc.
For the weight watchers, please consider to change the habit, (if you have a "snacking habit"), to a healthy breakfast, lunch and dinner. 
Why don't you say, " I don't need to have sweet because I want to eat a healthy dinner"? Then, you wouldn't gain extra calories to worry about and keep the nutrition you need. 

ダイエット中なの。。。って口癖の方多いですよね。痩せてるのに。特に日本は、痩せてる=綺麗と勘違いしてる人が多い気がします。
人それぞれ、綺麗な体型の理想は違うから、痩せたい願望が悪いとは言いません。でも、健康であることの方が大事だと、私は思います。だいたい、異常に体重に固執してしまい、摂食障害になったりして、身体と心の健康を失う人多いです。健康でなければ、気持ちも落ち込みやすかったり、ストレスが大きすぎて健康じゃなくなる人もいる。医学的に、身体の健康と精神の状態の関連は証明されてますよね。
身体が必要としてるものは、私たちが食べなければいけないと思っているものとは違う事もあります。野菜だけとか、リンゴだけとか、偏った食事は、偏った健康状態です。
食べなければ、身体は飢餓の状態を覚えて、与えられるもの全部吸収しなきゃ、という危険信号をだします。太りやすくなるから、もっと食べなくなる。悪循環ですね。
お菓子とか、化学調味料づけの食事ばかりの習慣がある人は、まずは、そこをリセットして、ヘルシーな食事で健康的な体型維持しませんか?次回は、何を食べたらいいかなんてお話もいいですね。