Dietary Assistance
Wellness
through
Diet
The saying is “An apple a day keeps the doctor away”. Unfortunately, as you age it takes more than an apple a day. We are what we eat, drink and breathe. As an example, If we control what we intake we can reduce our cancer risk by up to 47%.
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Incentive
An Incentive is a thing that motivates or encourages one to do something.
It does not matter how old you are, how healthy or otherwise you are you can always give yourself the incentive to improve your ageing years.
Eg: If your significant other makes a chicken vegetable soup and there is a good number of potatoes (not your favorite) in your bowl you have 4 choices. Eat everything just as it comes – leave the potatoes till last – eat them first or not eat them (not a good idea). If you choose to eat them first your incentive is to enjoy your soup without the potatoes (you already eat them).
We need to give ourselves an incentive to live a more health filled lifestyle. It is not easy to give up something that we love and are used to eating, drinking, or couch sitting. When we go into the supermarket and see the large amount of shelf space given to sodas, snacks, processed foods, etc. it is obvious that these are people’s choices. You are not going to reduce your chances of cancer in these aisles.
It takes 1 month to break a bad habit and one month to make a new habit, replace a bad habit with a good habit and you will be surprised how easy it is!
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. *
* A version of the prayer was originally composed by Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr in the early 1930s.
Eat & Drink?
Tall, short, fat, thin, a lady, a gentleman, 55 or 95 we are all different so do we all need to eat and drink the same diet? Obviously, the answer is no. When you arrive at our site you might be a lady who is short and 66 years old or you might be a gentleman who is overweight and 77 years old. The only common denominator is that you want to improve your eating habits to improve your health.
My example is an 81 years old, 5ft. 11 ins. tall, 150 lbs. gentleman. So, of course I am describing myself, I started my muscle mass training and after reaching what I thought was a good balance in my life I decided to tackle my diet. All my life I could eat anything I wanted never gaining any weight, the most I ever weighed was 172 pounds when I was in my 40ies, 6 ft. and that was also when I was my healthiest even skiing Saas Fee in Switzerland from top to bottom without stopping, a drop of 6,500 feet.
The eating habits I had were not good – the bad side was cookies, sweets, ice cream, chocolate, candy etc. I was not a soda drinker, and I did not have a diet of French fries, hot dogs and hamburgers. Even though I enjoyed fruit, vegetables, salads, soups etc. I knew I did not eat enough of them. I thought this would be easy, all I need to do is cut out the cookies, sweets, ice cream, chocolate, candy, etc. and I would be fine WRONG!
What happened in one month I lost 10 lbs., 10lbs. that I could not afford to lose. At 81 years old losing weight is to be avoided. This is why DIET is such an important part of this web site.
Before removing things from my diet I added some things, I added Greek yogurt and protein drinks, and dried bananas to my diet. This did not affect my weight so then I removed the cookies, sweets, ice cream, chocolate, candy, etc. from my diet. Now there are cookies, ice cream and chocolate that are good, so I added these back and I am attempting to balance my diet with the food my body needs. My weight at the time of writing is between 145 and 150 Lbs.