Bad Eating and Drinking Habits

We all have bad eating habits. How do these habits affect our health and well-being? Before any problem can be solved it must be identified. The age-old proverb, "A problem clearly stated is half solved", certainly applies to eliminating the bad eating habits from our daily lives.

Bad eating habits become a way of life for many and they simply are not aware of the ill effects of these daily habits. Eating too often, skipping meals, eating too much, too little, eating junk foods, and food addictions slowly but surely undermine our health.

We all have our favorite junk foods. Some of mine have existed for over 50 years. The same old products are still made and they taste as good now as they did 50 years ago. Yes, I will still nibble them from time to time, however is smaller quantities, and less frequent.

How do we go about eliminating these bad habits? We must identify the food as being worthless and identify the chemical reasons why these foods have a bad effect on body chemistry and health.

If we study all the ingredients in the junk food, identify each one, then understand why this food must be eliminated from our diet, it will be much easier to eliminate the offending food from our diet. Virtually all junk food is loaded with the bad fats, sugar, and other chemicals that overwork the body and creates waste disposal problems.

Likely the biggest mistake made is relative to weight loss and weight loss diets. Most people who are over weight do not eat 3 meals per day and have a metabolism problem. The most important aspect of weight loss is to increase the metabolism rate. Without getting technical, metabolism is best understood as "the feeding rate of the cells". It is the biochemical process that transforms the foods you eat into nutrients your body can use, fat it can store, or waste it can excrete. The rate at which you do this -- called your basal body metabolic rate --eventually dictates how much scale weight you have.

Fast metabolizers are the fattest people on the planet. One must make every effort to get the metabolism rate corrected. If the metabolism rate is too slow or too fast, a weight control problem will exist while the cells are suffering from malnutrition.

The metabolism rate is largely controlled by the endocrine system that consists of the hypothalamus gland, the thyroid and parathyroid gland, the adrenal gland, the pituitary glad and their associated hormones. The pituitary gland is often portrayed as the "master gland" of the body. The anterior and posterior pituitary secrete a battery of hormones that collectively influence all cells and affect virtually all physiologic processes, over-all health, energy, and the immune system.

These glands and the complete endocrine system only work properly when provided all the essential minerals, vitamins, and essential fatty acids. If you suspect you have a metabolism problem, seek medical attention, quit eating junk food, and correct your drinking problem.

What is a drinking problem? If we drink anything other than water, we have a drinking problem. Drinking the very best water is the goal. We have mineralized water, alkaline water, distilled water, chlorinated water, well water, and oxygenated water. Reverse Osmosis water is recognized as the best choice next to distilled water. I know many people that have been drinking distilled water for years with no problems. I have been drinking only reverse osmosis water for a number of years with positive results

Needless to say, many people are still damaging their health with water when water quality alone is the first step to good health. Everyone agrees that chlorine and fluoride are both deadly poisons, yet the masses continue to ingest both.

The evils of soft drinks are well known. The sugar and acidifying effect of soft drinks alone is enough to ruin ones health. The diet drinks are evil due to the phony sugars, which keep the body control system confused. This causes communication errors within the body, production of excessive insulin, and eventually disease. Thousands of reasons exist to avoid any type of soft drinks, diet drinks and most of the sports drinks.

Most people never experience the thirst sensation, or at least never recognize it. The brain turns on the hunger and thirst sensation at the same time. They are one and the same.

Only when you drink enough water, will you be able to tell the difference. Forget the bull about 6 to 8 glasses per day, and 8 ounce glasses at that. The minimum is 1 oz per two pounds of body weight. Fifty to one hundred per cent more will benefit some people and result in weight loss. Water is the best diuretic in the world. It should be a crime to give anyone a diuretic drug that does not have any kidney or liver damage.

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