I know, I know, you may be skeptical of how you could possibly pull off getting your teenagers to eat healthy. They’re never home and they don’t listen, right? Well, don’t despair, you can do what you can do, make your best effort, and hope that it will have some impact on them. I’m sure it will.
So what’s a parent to do with their teens to keep them eating healthy? Teenagers have a lot of growing to do and truly need an abundance of vitamins, minerals and other good stuff. My kids are still small, so they don’t have all the choices that older kids do. Teens are exposed to so much junk, it can be a real challenge. Read more...
Having a personal disability does not mean that you have to stop dieting and exercising to maintain healthy weight. It does not mean that you cannot start a new one either if your old regimen proves to be inadequate or too much for your present situation. In fact, getting into some kind of diet and weight training program is even more beneficial to a disabled than to a normal person. This is because of the restrictions brought by your disability, the tendency to gain weight and experience poor health is more than a normal person. You do not have complete freedom of movement and if you have other medical conditions, your diet can be restricted as well. Read more...
Many versions of Diet plans and diet guidelines came and disappeared, because in every case there were complications with these dietary programs. Many of us paid health in name of healthy dietary regimes. There are few results from history of these diet programs and results are –
1. Infertility
2. Osteoporosis
3. Anemia
4. Malnutrition
5. Weight increased again by leaps and bounds
6. Anorexia and much more!!
Let’s check the reasons behind all these complications in short, for now this list is enough!
Infertility: Diet programs specially of weight loss and cardiac diseases, where fats of the patients were stopped totally caused this problem to many of the followers. This was all due to the no or less availability of healthy cholesterol to produce the steroidal hormones, which are the main constituents of these hormones, is cholesterol.
Osteoporosis: High fiber and less/nil fats are the combination which brings the imbalance of the calcium in the body and leads to the condition like osteoporosis and decay of bones. It specially happens with the Vata Body Type of persons.
Anemia: You cannot treat the affluence caused problems with low level of the nutrition. Starvation is an inevitable condition for anyone cannot and shouldn’t be the choice of anybody.
Malnutrition: You eat against requirements of your body and it leads you to problems. The main issue is you are not “Teaching” your body- you are just “Torturing” your body- which cannot be desirable in any case. Loss of weight shouldn’t be equally proportionate to the loss of health!
Uncontrolled weight gain: Due to imbalance of the body weight management point of the body, body starts collecting unexpected amount of the fats, as soon as one shifts to normal diet. This can happen with normal diet also.
Anorexia: You keep on starving and all of sudden you will come to know that your body is not ready to accept food anymore. This condition will bring complexity in the working of the body.
These are six conditions, which are seen commonly as a side effect of the diet planning for weight reduction.
Ayurveda is more promising in this case, because Ayurveda believes that one should plan one’s diet according to one’s requirement and needs, otherwise there will be problems. All diet is regulated according to your Dosha and body Type. eVaidyaJi.com has brought the same knowledge for you. Diet, Lifestyle and Yoga all according to Dosha Body Type are available with this site and you can learn how you can maintain your health.
As you commit to be healthy and lose weight you embark on a weight loss program with all the intentions of being successful. Well success in healthy weight loss is like all success in life. As your success is based on your motivation, commitment, focus and accountability. No matter what goals you set, without action they will not be met. Therefore you must be accountable for your actions and lack thereof.
Personal Accountability. Read more...