This week on Intent, we want to hear your tips, tricks and advice on eating healthier. Should we plan ahead our meals? Is it a matter of preparing ourselves emotionally when the munchies strike? Whether you keep a food journal or you simply want to share some healthy snack recipes, we want to hear everything that you have to say on healthy eating. 
Whether you have healthy eating ideas from the perspective of a yoga teacher, a relationship expert, a therapist, a chef, or whatever else–we are sure you have your own unique and helpful perspectives on this matter.
So why should we eat healthier? Our bodies deserve to be treated well 24/7, and eating healthy is just one of those lifestyle choices that we can’t afford to ignore. When we eat healthy, we look better, feel better and do better because we are not slogging our bodies down with artificial chemicals and other junky, energy-depleting substances.
Though I am no nutrition expert, here are some general guidelines I follow to keep my eating habits somewhat healthy:
- I start my mornings with two glasses of water. Throughout the day, I drink as much water as possible.
- I follow a vegetarian diet. While going vegetarian does not necessarily guarantee a healthy diet, it at least eliminates a LOT of unhealthy temptations (steak, burgers, fried chicken, etc.)
- I am a big fan of the 80% rule, which is what the Okinawans follow–an ethnic group of islanders who, by the way, have mastered the art of living a long, healthy life. When you feel 80% full, you should stop eating.
- I love giving myself room for indulgence. If I am eating healthy MOST of the time, there is no shame or harm in the occasional bag of Doritos, chocolate-chip cookies, candy or cake. Yum!
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How ridiculus is this diet-science!
– Love what you eat… true love feeling and harmonious surrounding.
– The table where you eat must not be a war zone. If so, better to eat alone.
– Exercice a minimum: walk 20-30 mins / day is enough. Do not only walk, open your eyes and breath!
– Be intelligent from past experiences.
There is no special time to eat. Your body will tell you.
Eat first, job second by far.
Stress and bad emotions are really bad for your body and your digestion.
Are you thinking to quit your job?
Don't show me what you eat
Show me how!
lots of water
vegetables, whole grains, fruit..
I eat every 2-3 hours…
try to cut myself some slack (although I do the above, I still have extra weight)
exercise daily
breathe!
trying to learn how to accept the dark side as it is probably what holds my weight in place.
Deby
never followed a specific diet
eat whenever I am hungry and this is only twice a day
always cooked meals at home using the best greek virgin olive oil
never open the fridge in the between
never drink milk only cheese and yogourt ,but only when I crave it and only in small quantities
only some fruit from time to time-I do not like them in general
eat bio vegetables from my vegetable garden
I feel and I am healthy with balanced weight at my 62
Exercise non stop from childhood
And the most important to me I have no stress at all ,there is a mental -phycological and
physical balance
I find Yumi, that if I think healthy thoughts, healthy foods follow!
FYI … I just posted an Interview with Dr. David Kessler, author of The End of Overeating.
Dr. Kessler was the Comm. of the FDA from 1990-97 and was responsible for blowing the whistle on the tobacco industry. And now he is exposing the way in which the food industry manipulates us to eat more and more and more.
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Our life span depend on the food intake, those contains chemical will most likely trigger us to acquire diseases. Doctors recommend fruits and vegetables. It
Dr. David Robinson
Throw out all the diets and diet plans. K.I.S.S.! Eating Healthy can be done by changing from "living to eat" to "eating to live". This is accomplished simply by following the New Food Pyramid in daily food choices (can be found on the Harvard School of Public Health website).
Best, DrDavidRobinson4Health.com
Deby
Hi Dr David,
I completely agree with you."I eat to live not live to eat" is my life's motto.O.K food industries want us to consume and they are doing their job.We as consumers why not act wisely and decide for ourselves what is good and what is not.
As for the diets.if the way of eating is not a way of living,they may work temporarely ,but after a couple of months the person is getting tired of being cautious of his food,falls again to his past eating habits and thus diets always fail.
Dietists advise eating a lot of fruit and vegetables.How safe is it,if we take into consideration the overuse of fertilzers and insecticides we consume with the intaking of great quantities of fruit? I think the ancient Greek saying <??? ?????? ???????> is the golden rule for the wellfare of people,and this includes all our actions ,take it emotional,spiritual and physical.
One has not always to look for what this one or that one has to say.It is simply common sense
I'm happy to share my thoughts with you
Despina
Deby
Hi Lindsay
I agree with you partly,as our life span does not depend only on the food intake.In order for someone to be healthy many other factors are involved, especially emotions. Observe your self when in a state of anger,in a state of jealousy ,impatience, fear,how your body responds and how you feel in a state of relaxation.if these negative emotions have a duration then the equivalent organs in our body are afflicted and sometimes with permanent damages.Observe and think about it.
Despina
Youpie!
Jean-Fran
Happy happy day all!
It seems like everyone is saying the same thing: BALANCE of all things- food, emotions, physical activity, and stress especially seems to keep the lbs packed on tight….balance, balance, balance!
Ultimately, isn't that our goal in life and what we are all trying to do anyway? Isn't that why we are all here supporting each other? We are all trying to hit our CENTER, which has to be balanced.
Love, peace, and happiness to all!
Despina,
I completely agree with you. What's going on inside of us, that is, our emotional selves are completely responsible for our life span. The more we harbour toxic emotions, the more dis-ease we create, obliging our bodies to counter-attack it.
We, each and every one of us, are responsible for our individual life span, not the medical profession. They know a lot about the chemically-created diseases they promote but little to nothing about the hu-man body, why it functions the way it does or our ever-present emotional body and the link between the two. They are trained to treat diseases not the person with the dis-ease.
Catherine
Make a great day for yourself!
I start my day with a litre of water and if my body calls for it, I squeeze a big lemon in it.
My first meal is at 11AM after I empty my bowels, if it doesn't happen as soon as I wake, it does after I drink my litre of water. I usually drink about 5 litres of water a day.
I have a big mug of Sencha (japanese green tea) twice a day when I feel like drinking something hot or another of the tisanes I keep in stock.
I try to juice a green drink every day but it doesn't always happen. Cucumber, celery, kale, sunflower sprouts, red pepper, and parsley are my preferred base, then I look for a big, green booster in season to add to the mix.
I eat twice a day. In Ayurvedic medicine, I'm a Kapha type so I don't need to eat more than that and I am never hungry. I eat when I'm hungry.
I do not buy or eat any flour or sugar products or take caffeine during the week. I indulge with 2 pain au chocolat and 1 croissant and 1 coffee on the weekend at my favourite caf
Hi guys I have always been aware of the importance of the type and quality of foods around me as my gran produced singlehandedly all her food stuffs except for salt and sugar. Those were the only two things she couldn't make herself. As an adult I used to go to the shop and look at the list of ingredients on the labels of most products and I can not for the life of me recognize half of the "ingreients" suh as E this and E that; MSG, tartrazine etc the list goes on and on. So I started my own company manufacturing ready made convinience frozen meals which are prepared from actual food, real ingredients with no additives presarvatives or colourants. I am a chef by qualifications and developed aforementioned range of foods called SKINNYFOOD with a registered dietician in order to make it possible for people to eat healthy and conviently if they wish to do so. For the moment we are only available in South Africa but I would gladly help anyone willing to do similar thing in their country/area.
So my advice will be watch your portion sizes stick to lower GI. Carbohydrates use low fat as in less of it but don't go for chemically altered foods and do not be too strict on your selves you can eat a piece chocholate if you like it. If you eat healthy all the time you can have any type of food in moderation. I don't have any restriction on my eating and have been at a perfect weight for as long as I remember. Develop healthier eating habits and you can eat it all.