I attended a seminar last weekend regarding heart disease. One of the speakers is a nutrition consultant. What she said was quite interesting!
Patients of diabetes, hypertension, or obesity who are likely candidates for heart disease are usually told to have healthy lifestyle – eat healthy and moderate exercise.
According to her experience, if she advises such patients not eat this and not to eat that, and insists them eating only healthy stuffs like fruits and vegetable. Very soon, they will not follow her advice and, switch to unhealthy foods. This is because healthy foods are frequently not as tasty as your favorite (most of the time are unhealthy) foods.
She suggested that instead of eating a whole piece of cake, for example, you can always share it with your loved ones such as your spouse or children so that each of you only eats a small portion of it.
Even if the fats contained in the cake are so unhealthy, it will not really affect your health significantly. Yet you still can enjoy your favorite foods.
The method works well for her family, too. Based on her approach, her mother used to have some health issues in the past, can still enjoy her favorite foods though in small portion. She is now 92 years old. Besides some hearing problem, she is still very healthy.
Living healthy is not that difficult, but it does need some discipline.
Don’t you think so?
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