Diet 2000 [antikvár]

CHAPTERHow To Use This Boolee all know that 'We are what we eat' and that a healthy diet Is essential to withstand today's hectic lifestyle. We know too that eating the right food reduces the risk of contracting a whole host of 20th-century ills like coronary heart disease, bowel problenns, high blood pressure and diabetes. But what is a healthy diet?Government guidelines suggest cutting back on fatty foods and increasing starchy foods like bread, pasta and potatoes. American experts maintain we should be eating more fishy fats. Others recommend eating less sugar and salt. Some say that sugar does no harm. Antioxidants, vitamins and minerals have all hit the nutritional headlines recently, so should we be eating more of these too?As the experts pile up the recommendations it becomes increasingly difficult to put them all into practice. Which foods really are the best and how much of them should we be eating? The fallback advice is simply to 'eat a good balanced diet'. But everyone is different and one woman's good balanced diet could be another's hopelessly inadequate diet.What matters is a diet that's tailored to your own specific requirements. Your age, weight, medical and family history and, even more importantly, your lifestyle must all be taken into account. If you live a very active life you need to eat quite differently from someone with a sedentary lifestyle. Stress, PMT, alcohol intake, current eating habits and many other factors will also affect your'body's nutritional requirements.NewWwMi 9 1 ! ' .i f IIIi ' ! 'JlI f'.i ii 'i ' Il'' I'M ^r'.ill, ' 1 !J 1,, /lU'ilxm