Dietetic Habits Can Cause Serious Disease

As you read these questions, ponder for a few minutes on your answers.

What does your daily diet consist of?
Do you eat to be healthy, or to lose weight, or just for enjoyment?
Do you sit down and eat slowly or eat on the run?
Do you eat until you are really full?
How many fresh fruits and vegetables do you eat each day?

I ran across this quote from Bernarr Macfadden and thought I would share it.

"From what has been stated it will be seen that we believe the following dietetic habits to be serious causes of disease:
The eating of white flour foods,
eating too much,
eating too large a variety at one meal,
eating too fast,
drinking at meals to wash down food improperly masticated,
eating too highly seasoned food,
eating improper and improperly cooked food,
improper mastication of food,
eating too often,
and eating when suffering from the fever and inflammation of a wound, surgical operation or acute disease."
Macfadden's Encyclopedia of Physical Culture

This is the cause of disease of our industrialized world. If you fall into any of these categories and you would like to begin to make some changes, don't try to change everything all at once. Make one small change everyday.
If you are eating too fast, make a conscious effort with each meal to really chew your food slowly and learn to enjoy every bite.
If you eat to much at each meal and too many varieties, there is a wonderful program called Fat Loss 4 Idiots that helps you plan your meals, eat more often, and eat less per meal.
If you eat too many products with white sugar or white flour, just a little advanced planning and you can begin adding more whole grains into your diet.
It doesn't take long to begin trading 1 healthy item for 1 or 2 choices each day. Try it and notice how your energy level begins to improve slowly over time.