Healthy Eating Support Group
This community is a forum for people who are determined to improve their eating habits for health, personal wellness and other reasons. What you eat can have a dramatic impact on your life expectancy, your mood, your physical and mental well-being and much more. Share your experience eating healthy, get advice and find others who have similar goals.
I try to incorporate certain foods into my diet for health reasons. For example, I try to eat blueberries and/or strawberries because they are good for my skin. I try to eat foods with potassium because it helps to regulate lower blood pressure. Salmon is good for heart and skin. (I guess I left out the part that I am a little vain too). LOL! Everything should be all good then. Of course, we human beings do not keep things that simple.
I have some really bad habits too. Working those out of my diet is a lot harder than working the other things into my diet. For example, I am really bad with sodas. I can cite more reasons than any of you probably can why I should not be drinking sodas. I have a sweet tooth. I have learned to prepare desserts with fewer calories and healthy ingredients substituted in but the fact remains they still have more sugar than I need to be consuming.
Bottom line is I try to eat healthy but do not always get it right. Getting better though.
I have some really bad habits too. Working those out of my diet is a lot harder than working the other things into my diet. For example, I am really bad with sodas. I can cite more reasons than any of you probably can why I should not be drinking sodas. I have a sweet tooth. I have learned to prepare desserts with fewer calories and healthy ingredients substituted in but the fact remains they still have more sugar than I need to be consuming.
Bottom line is I try to eat healthy but do not always get it right. Getting better though.
In processing food, companies often cover up mediocre tastes with either a lot of sugar or a lot of salt, which are kind of additing in that we need more and more to even taste it after a while.
It is said that we have 4 basic tastes, sweet, sour, bitter and salty. There is another one and this is for savory. Savory seems to be keyed in to glutamic acid, one of the amino acids, and msg is like the sugar companies that try to fool our tongues into thinking we are eating a good food when we are really only eating an extract.
I'll make another thread about umami - savory so we can have a discussion on that. :)
Another food item I found in my search is nagaimo, or mountain yam, which is an Asian root that is very healthful, and I'll post a thread on that too.
Some things are naturally sweet and healthy like, why have orange soda when we can have an orange? We trade artificial flavor and chemicals for real flavor and vitamins and fiber.
:)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umami