Healthy Eating Advice can be Hard to Swallow
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Terrific New eBook On How To Broil Delicious Foods The healthy eating advice we hear all the time is ‘eat a balanced diet’. Simple as that. Or is it? I’ve been thinking about my diet a lot recently. I’m training for a marathon. And if you start looking for healthy eating advice, you'll find it - in an amazing variety of shapes and forms. And most of it is aimed at people who consider themselves to be overweight. Here’s the essence of what most nutritional experts say: All this sounds like sensible healthy eating advice. But it is quite hard to follow to the letter. Try eating an apple when you’ve already eaten a kiwi fruit, an orange, a banana, some berries and a peach. Try telling your dentist! Most fruit is quite acidic, and it contains a lot of natural sugars. Your teeth and stomach can take quite a battering. It's also hard to avoid eating processed food. It's everywhere. It’s convenient. And it tastes good – it’s been designed to. There’s so little nutritional value in a lot of processed food that tasting good is its only virtue. And of course some of it tastes so good that we can’t resist it – in huge quantities. Back to the marathon. The main issue with a marathon runner’s diet is to make sure you have enough sugar in your blood so you don’t ‘hit the wall’. The wall becomes a major obstacle about 20 miles into a marathon. Their muscles have burnt all their blood sugar. The body responds by breaking down stores of fat and glycogen in the liver. It's really painful. But many experienced marathon runners say, ‘It’s all in the mind.The 'wall' is nothing more than a psychological barrier. If you want to finish the marathon, you have to go through it – you have to take the pain. And that’s how I have come to view the balanced diet and all the other articles of healthy eating advice. You need the right mindset to lose weight and get healthy. Don't give in to your 'need' for processed food. Hitting the Wallmart is a mental barrier. Youcan overcome. So here’s the ultimate healthy eating advice: you have to want to be healthy. You have to want to be slim. And not just a bit. Badly. Because healthy eating is a state of mind. 
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