You say WHY?
Let’s look at the health aspects of them for our body:
1- They are high in vitamins, minerals, some with antitoxins (helping the immune system) and have anti-inflammatory effects that can help you build up to your optimal health. Some fruits have soluble fiber in them that slows down the breakdown of complex carbohydrates and helps reduce blood sugar.
2- Fruit taken in proper portions (moderate amts.) can even help lower blood cholesterol.
3- Soluble fiber is not just in rye, barley, oats, and vegetables but in fruits as well. Insoluble fiber can’t be absorbed or digested by the human body but can still provide the body with advantages like reducing hunger, stimulates regular bowel movements, and can be found in fruits as well as vegetables, seeds whole wheat bread and other foods.
Let’s look at what you look for in the food you put in your body:
One of my healthy eating rules is know what the food’s makeup is before eating it; yes this includes calories, fat, sugars, carbs and sodium but knowing the energy density in the foods you eat is very important too. Foods with the lowest density are foods that help curb your appetite that can help you maintain or even lose weight.
The lowest energy density food group contains healthy foods like most vegetables and fruits with based broth soups & skim milk. The highest density groups are cookies, chips, nuts, full-fat condiments, chocolate and butter (not the best nutritional foods to be eating regularly). Remember, if you’re trying to be healthy or even losing weight than know fruits are high glycemic foods. If you eat too much fruit at one time it will result in high glycemic amounts in your body at that one time putting you at risk for fat storage=weight gain.
You see, digestion of the foods whether calories, carbohydrates, sugars, or some fats get broken down into simple or complex sugar molecules=glucose or fructose. One of the body’s major fuels for energy so we can function with working properly & survive is glucose (the same concept like fuel for a car=gas=it operates).
The body utilizes glucose after digestion takes place in the stomach where the foods break down into simple and complex sugars than transferred into our bloodstream as our active fuel for energy (like our car’s tank sending gas to the engine to be able to run). Our fuel, being the glucose, then gets sent to all our tissues and into our cells but only for the amount they need at that time (sort of like the car in filling the gas tank to full). When our body reaches full for all energy needed to all areas of the body at that time if there is extra un-needed glucose in the bloodstream it has to go somewhere and the body stores it=fat storage=weight gain. In the diabetic if no insulin too pass the sugar over through the cell membrane in the red blood cell (RBC) or if all extra sugar that can go into RBCs is full than the sugar has to to go somewhere.
Take the car, the storage reservoir is the gas tank it only stores in the tank, but if the tank reaches full with gas (its energy) it would just overflow as opposed to the human body with extra glucose in the bloodstream=our extra fuel which doesn’t overflow by leaving our body somehow but gets stored in our body as fat storage. Thus, when it’s needed (glucose) it will be released back in the bloodstream. If you more frequently have in your body more overflow of glucose versus the need for it you’ll have more fat storage occuring as opposed to energy utilized by the body. This causes you to be at a higher risk of becoming overweight to obese (that’s the logic in eating 6 small low glycemic meals a day which prevents this from happening).
To prevent a high risk of becoming overweight to obese stay off of 3 large meals/day and high sugar snacks during the day. Also, don’t have constant healthy frequent high glycemic meals day in and day out especially with no activity/exercise other than your regular activities of daily living, which doesn’t count as exercise.
Remember, eat fruits in moderation not in excess; including the size of your meals (don’t allow the size of the plate greater than 9” including NO second helpings). The key to eating healthy is to include all 4 food groups (Meats/Fishes, Vegetables, Fruits, and Dairy) and eat your first meal for the day within 30 minutes. You can also learn exercise that fits into your lifestyle (ranging from walking fast 30 minutes for 2 to 3 times a week to daily workouts) with knowing healthy habits to add in your life to stay or get within your ideal weight. The ending result is you feel better, look better, and have higher odds you’ll live a longer life that allows more excitement in it due to being in better shape. Good luck in getting yourself on the right track of health independently.
Consider 8 Ways to Heal:
1. Psychotherapy can help identify past trauma. Let the unfortunate trauma that happened to you diminish in time with doing things to deal with your stress or past traumatic injury you experienced but you become determined not to let those wounds ruin your life today. If no good memories came out of it don’t dwell on it and turn into someone whose bitter or whines all the time. Show the world your dealing with it and got over it!! Your now a stronger person.
2. Grief requires dealing with your deceased parent; warts and all. You accept that you were traumatized; you may even forgive and if traumatized in a way in losing something or someone remember the good memories it gave you or in just a loss of a one you loved with all good memories remember that. The hole in your heart is a mental injury like all types it will heal in time.
3. Identify your triggers. Everyone who’s been traumatized has triggers and responses. Get to know yours. Utilize what calms your trigger down whether it be work out or hobbies or some type or work.
4. The Trigger-Response recreates the past. When you run, freeze or attack, you end up recreating and therefore, re-enforcing the past. You freeze and people think you are cold and stonewalling. If you run, nothing will last. And, if you rage in response to being triggered, you are doing what was done to you possibly. People will withdraw or be injured; not a good outcome.
5. Good therapy also helps you to rediscover your strengths. We are not just damaged creatures, but also living beings with power and talents. Many people discover strength they never knew they had in treatment. This, in turn, gives you more motivation to overcome the trauma of your youth. With competent psychotherapy you may be able to gain the strength to deal with being triggered, without harming others – or yourself. Happiness is that important.
6. Alternative treatments like EMDR, Somatic Experiencing and DBT may help as well. These treatments help with muting the triggers that are neurologically embedded in your brain. Remember that the fight, flight and freeze response has an evolutionary purpose. It protects the organism from dangerous situations. You may need specialized expertise to overcome this programming.
7. Often trauma is found alongside other psychiatric disorders like Anxiety or Depression. An intelligent use of psychiatric medications can reduce the trigger-response effect and give you an opportunity to create a future response that is not dictated by your past.
8. Spirituality can be invaluable. No one can tell you HOW to be spiritual, but for many, some form of faith can truly detoxify. (As long as you are not in a faith that makes you more anxious and burdened.) People may have hurt you, but a new life is yours for the taking. Look up at the stars. Smell the fresh air. Sense the opportunity in every moment. And, know that you are part of something larger than you. It settles the soul.
The Power of Letting Go: We often speak of the dead with the words;
“He (or She) Should Rest in Peace.” Yes, they should.
Yet, we often don’t think about the ways that people who are gone still impact us, even though they are not here. Your mom or dad may be gone, but their hurt remains. And, you have some choice to live a better life despite what happened to you.
Open your door the past does affect it now possibly with negative thinking or responses but the present – and the future higher odds does not.
But, contemporary psychology opens the door wider. You can be free from your past.
It starts with consciousness. Then, the journey is all up to you.