Ways Of Eating: What Is A Healthy Diet?

We are bombarded by health and dietary information every day. This is partly a reflection of our own obsession to ‘live healthier and longer’ but is also financed by the very powerful food manufacturers and lobbyists.

When we talk to our clients about food and ways of eating we encourage them to look at the quality of the food they are eating. An easy question is ‘Would your great-grandmother recognise what this food is?’. Much of our modern food is processed. It has been derived in a factory and is subject to an abundance of processes that make it more convenient for us. Even those of us with what we think of as a low processed diet can find it difficult to avoid. Unless you’re making your own yogurt, milking the cow yourself, and boiling baked beans up from scratch you are probably eating processed food.

The article puts the point across well.

The current shift in the dietary message we are getting is that fat is not the enemy that we have been told for so many years. Rather it is sugar that is the new foe.

I would encourage all of us to be mindful of what we are eating. How was it made? How long will it last ( a long sell by date tells me something has been added- natural food is not designed to last long in our fridges!) How does this make me feel after I’ve eaten it? We all need to find what food works best for us and then find a way in which we can make buying it, making it and eating it, fit into our lifestyles.

Posted in Food & Drink