We need food for the basics of everyday life – to jump blood, move muscles, think thoughts. Foods also help you live well and live longer. By making the right choices, you can avoid some of the things we think of as the inevitable penalties of getting older.
Factors such as age, gender, genetic makeup, occupation, lifestyle, family, and cultural background affect our daily food choices.
We use food to project a desired image, forge relationships, express friendship, show creativity and display our feelings.
Food is also seen as an indicator of gender identify. Systematic marketing studies conducted in the 1950s and 60s by psychoanalyst Ernst Dichter showed that meats, potatoes and coffee were considered strongly masculine by consumers, whereas, rice, cake and tea were seen as feminine.
Making poor choices eating too much of the wrong kinds of food and too little of the right kinds or too much food altogether increases your chances of developing cancer, heart disease and diabetes.
A healthy diet teamed with regular exercise and not smoking can eliminate 80 percent of heart disease and the majority of cancer cases.
Foods that contain high levels of sugar and processed white flours are the bad carbs. These taste good and cause an addiction. These are what turns to sugar and then converts to fat in the body.
What make sense, is that you eat nutritious food regularly throughout the day in small amounts. This will help stabilize blood sugars and energy provides immediate useable energy.
Eating nutritious food
