Daniel Juarez Essays - Health, Diets, Nutrition, Personal Life

Daniel Juarez Professor McMillen English 101 3 May 2017 What Should We Eat There are many things that contribute to the make up of your health. Health is based on physical, mental and emotional wellness. Maintaining a healthy diet is the most important factor in your overall health because healthy food gives you more energy and enables weight control. A healthy diet cuts down on diseases such as diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and etc. Another benefit to eating healthy is an improvement of ones overall mood. One might argue that physical fitness exercise is the most important factor for being healthy, but that is just not quite true. Eating healthy fats, clean proteins, low carbohydrates, and low to no intake of sugars regardless of if it is natural sugars or added sugars is a great way to ensure premium health. Just as this way of eating would be considered a diet to most, your diet is what you eat and what foods you choose to live off. A diet is not meant to be a temporary or quick way to lose weight. A diet is meant to keep you healthy a nd improve yourself and the overall longevity of your body. There are many new diets, supplements, and health trends that appear all the time, but what is really healthy for you is being mandated by the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC). Healthy eating should be a concern of each individual. A healthy diet is by far the most important thing in maintaining a healthy life. What is health? A vague definition of health is; the overall wellness of ones self. Your health is comprised of your physical, mental, and emotional status. Each component of health can be broken down even further, but what we want to concentrate on is the physical aspect of it. Your physical health can increase, decrease, and be maintained based off two very important factors being, physical fitness/activity (exercise) and nutrition. Maintaining a healthy diet is the most important factor in your physical health. Your body turns what you eat into energy in order for you to move, breathe, process information, and simply live in general. One might argue on the contrary that physical fitness is the more important factor of the two. The truth of the matter is yes your physical fitness may be important but without proper nutrition, your body cannot exert the appropriate amount of energy needed to exercise proficiently. How you eat, and what you eat allows for adequate energy conversion t hat fuels your body enabling peak performance. Eating healthy foods that contain healthy fats, clean proteins, low carbohydrates, and low to no intake of sugars regardless of if it is natural sugars or added sugars is a great way to ensure premium health, supplemental and efficient fuel for your body. This type of eating is what is known as a ketogetic diet. In the article "Escape from the Western Diet", author Michael Pollan states that scientists who supported carbohydrates told him that he should not allow himself to be swayed by the "omega-3 cult" (p. 420). Omega-3's are what you would call a healthy fat found in such foods as avocados, fish, olive oil and many other healthy food items that your body needs. Low carbohydrate, high fat (healthy fats) diets have proven beneficial for your health in many ways. One of the many benefits that comes from a low carbohydrate, high healthy fat diet is weight loss. Not eating carbohydrates is an effective way to lose weight because you get rid of excess water weight do to a drop of insulin levels in your body, which enables your kidneys to start releasing excess sodium. Low carbohydrate diets tend to shred abdominal fat storage very effectively. According to the article "10 Proven Health Benefits of Low- Carb and Ketogenic Diets" by Kris Gunners, "Having a lot of fat in that area can drive inflammation, insulin resistance and is believed to be a leading driver of the metabolic dysfunction that is so common in Western countries today" (p.4). A ketogenic diet isn't the only way to lose weight. Eating properly and exercising on a regular basis can keep you from gaining unwanted weight as well as help you